Dec 5: Athens and its Environs, 1987-2000, with Christos Dikeakos
Please join us for a free illustrated lecture and photographic exhibition on Monday, December 5th at 19:30 Pacific Time, in-person at the Hellenic Community Centre in the Upper Hall at 4500 Arbutus Street, with internationally decorated photographer Christos Dikeakos.
On the Acropolis, 1988
In intorducing his project, Chris writes:
The city is an education to Greece. Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now —Pericles
Historical imaginings, I believe, are a process by which we can sometimes locate ourselves in the Present —Christos Dikeakos
This multilayered photographic project attempts to give the viewer the complex histories of a city considered to be the cradle of western civilization. Showing Athens in its many current topographies and in context to the hidden and sometimes marginalized archaic and sacred ruins in a tussle with the modern metropolis. This work comprises of 76 framed large hand coloured BW panoramic photos with two portable valise cases in two editions, English and French.
Light refreshments will be available at the event.
For those unable to attend in person, you also have the option to join by Zoom, here:
Meeting ID: 639 0599 8130
Passcode: 640528
About Christos Dikeakos
The work of Christos Dikeakos investigates the topographical and historical through photography. As a first generation member of the Vancouver photo-conceptual group, he offers a critique of urban history, topography, depicting cultural aspects of inhabitation and the city in a state of flux. His Sites and Place Names series in Athens, Berlin, Saskatoon and Vancouver track significant cultural shifts and open discussions around ideological contexts. In these pictures, a backdrop of contemporary habitations highlights the multi-linguistic narratives and memories of urban typologies.
More recently Dikeakos produced a touring exhibition for the McMaster Museum of Art, unpacking 40 years’ worth of drawings, sculptures, and photography on the French American artist Marcel Duchamp. This was followed in 2014 with a solo show Nature Morte at the Kelowna Art Gallery, picturing the seasonal paradigms of his family’s apple orchard in the southern Okanagan Valley. His latest solo exhibition showed in 2015 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. NEXT: Christos Dikeakos, a series of large scale photographs of West Coast Pacifica, took on the idea that there exists conductive resonances in both cultural and natural spaces.
Christos Dikeakos RCA obtained a BFA with honours in Fine Arts in 1972 at the University of British Columbia. MA dissertation on Marcel Duchamp incomplete. Christos Dikeakos was born in 1946 Thessaloniki Greece, lives and works in Vancouver.
This 43rd Season of Pharos is generously sponsored by Vicki Costas in honour of her late husband, and good friend of Pharos, Patrick Spittel.
The Eskandari Sisters posing on Philopappos Hill with their grandson and nephew 2012
Sites and Place Names Athens / The English Valise edition