Inaugurated Sunday in the art Spinalonga-exposure intervention Costas Tsoklis (right at the second picture below), “Essi o telephteos lepros”
("You the last leper.")- View of Spinalonga with the characteristic spot of the intervention, at the first picture below.
Welcoming Prefect of Crete Stavros Arnaoutakis
(speaking man at the picture below) said-among the others: "With great excitement and expectation, I am with
you today at the historic archaeological site of Spinalonga. Fort, who was in
the last 500 years, "theater" material facts inherent in the great
adventure of the island of Crete, this unique site, surrounding us around, from
the top of Oxas in Elounda, till the hard rocks above the t’ agnanti plate and
the sea of the lines of Sitia mountains - sometimes faint and sometimes
brilliant as now, to define the look in their "own" our East.
The island
of Spinalonga, preferentially located on the sea side a water-beauty-epic
landscape, undoubtedly strategic advantages at times hard and direct contact
with the surface was the dominant representatives of the Serene Republic of
Venice in the 16th century, the crucial point chose to work with wonderful
commemoration of the unique fortification architecture.
From the
time of delivery of the Ottomans in 1715 and until 1898, has experienced
successive phases of abandonment and acne, going to host the 19th century the
settlement of up to 1100 people. But in the later history of the years of the
twentieth century, from 1903 to 1957, was a leper colony, that place patients
and exclusion tragic late residence pain and suffering of hundreds of fellow
citizens who condemned the tragic fate of having the "sacred disease"
of the season, Hansen's disease.
During the
20th century, a period filled with wars and totalitarianism, even while the
Nazi death machine plague they set to extermination camps in all occupied
countries transforming cities everywhere peaceful landscapes of hell, here in
this small fortified island, those traverser the gate, they had no way back.
(...).
In this
silent memory of this place, to Spinalonga, an important archaeological site
and already nominated the Region of Crete for the list of world cultural
heritage of UNESCO, came today to inaugurate a great work of art, an art
installation, an interactive spatial gesture that composition and treatment
were the result of intellectual inspiration, body fatigues and diverse
expression of Costas Tsokli, a great Greek and international artists and zealot
declared the Word in all its manifestations.
The feeling
of Costas Tsokli, vision as a composer today is not the answer to the political
and social issues of our time. The artist does not convey messages, positions
and makes no predictions. He is the man who tries to talk to goodhood to offer
us communion in the area of magic and the elevation of the human condition.
His work attempts to install even with the ephemeral deeply personal,
intellectual and sometimes 'automatic' art of writing, the mood and empathic
understanding of another attempt. Here is this worth all that illuminates the human
creativity, all that can motivate us, to form fields dynamically load and
emotional feeling, to produce "meaningful places". The art of Tsokli,
wants to build links with the truth, to oppose obvious to oblivion and the
realization that brings the time and managed to link us to the hidden but
substantial "face value" of our universe, which praise the existence
and can to everyday moral epanathemelionei our universe. (...)
Try to hear
the whispers of the wind while straddling the Aforesmenos’ lighthouse dusting
and feed them with dry stone walls in her bosom, Elounda. Here in Crete, in the
womb of the earth Zeus, who gave birth to the gods and El Greco and Cornaro,
look so to find the signs and traces that moved early look and the later years
in the inspirations of the great Cretan Renaissance. And he walked the streets
that crossed over the years, Venizelos and Kazantzakis, overlooking the peaks
that rebels hid in the possession of freedom, going to towns and villages that
summer sang in musical Manos Hadjidakis and Theodorakis, below the Cretan
possible light who greeted fondly eternal deposits excavated by Plato and
Sakellarakis. On the island of Spinalonga, which Venetians fortified great
builders and engineers, who hosted the fear in later years of the Ottoman and
end with tears notisan abundant and dignity-that more silence and respect of
our match-always the residents of a state of pain, alive by crossing their own
Acherousia.
Dear
friends, we invite everyone to join and browse the Spinalonga with your visual
approach, reading and understanding the historical archaeological site with
special care for 17 years has restore the Byzantine Antiquities 13th and the
contraction of the arts Costas Tsokli work. Having always believed that there
is no single-mode intake and evaluation for an artistic event like this will
evolve in front of us until October.
Unique vehicle is the artist's free will to serve it and his vision is for us
to become socially and partners to that of the deposit. (...)
