Exhibition: Dimitris Pikionis: an Aesthetic Topography

Dimitris Pikionis ( Protected content ) is an important figure in 20th century Greek culture. Friend of the painter Giorgio De Chirico, he studied painting and sculpture in Munich and later in Paris, where he encountered modern painting, particularly the work of Cézanne and Paul Klee and the sculpture of Rodin. Returning to his native Greece, he rediscovered his architectural vocation without abandoning painting. At the same time, together with a group of artists, he edited the magazine To Trito Mati (‘The Third Eye’), which introduced Greece to the European avant-garde.

Although he was a contemporary of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, his architecture sought to integrate tradition with modern abstraction, proposing a formal synthesis with the desire to attend to the condition of an identitarian culture which he understood as a conciliation bet.

The exhibition focuses on the landscape treatment of the entrances to the Acropolis of Athens, full of pictorial references in the pavements, completed with the architectural works that explain his creative process. Using the title of one of his theoretical writings, we could call it an ‘aesthetic topograph’.