Workshop Exhibition – July 2019
Contemplating Natural Aesthetics
Epoc Creative Workshop aims at the documentation and reinvention of the identity of our surrounding environment through an artistic procedure. Therefore, the personal experience of the participants is necessary in order to reveal the special characteristics of the area of research, not only as natural but also as experiential space.”“Epoc Creative Workshop aims at the documentation and reinvention of the identity of our surrounding environment through an artistic procedure. Therefore, the personal experience of the participants is necessary in order to reveal the special characteristics of the area of research, not only as natural but also as experiential space.
Rania Emmanouilidou
Visual Artist
The Narration of Beauty
The concept of Beauty differs from desire. We can admire something, consider it beautiful, even if we do not want to obtain it or even if it belongs to someone else. At this seminar, we will try to put forward ideas of Beauty over the centuries, identifying those situations in which a given culture or a particular historical era recognized that there are things to be pleasant to admire, regardless of the desire we feel about them. It is true that from antiquity to the present day, a multitude of perceptions of the “nice” has been formed, causing endless discussions, and it is also a fact that different aspects of beauty have collided not only in different historical periods but also within the same era. In our meetings, we will not give specific ideas but list the ways in which people understood the beauty of nature, human body, light, costume, astral phenomena, mathematical relationships, “God”, the night and the infringement. We will distinguish the taste and the aesthetics of certain historical times, the way they felt, the attraction they felt with the feeling of the beautiful, of that which etymologically happens in its time, the right time and in the expected time.
Eleni Garoufalia
Art Historian, Curator
