To dedicate oneself to architecture requires a series of technical and artistic knowledge, but to be an architect requires a certain poetic view of space. The Greek Dimitris Pikionis (1887-1968) had it – “a unique vision of landscape as a work of art,” say the connoisseurs – and he reflected it in his works, as is evident in the exhibition Dimitris Pikionis. An aesthetic topography at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (Calle de Alcalá, 42).
A total of six of his works are on display, which, although they coincide in time and space with those of other architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, show a commitment to integrate Hellenic culture with the modern. Among these works is a large topographic model of the rehabilitation project of the Acropolis of Athens.
But the exhibition not only portrays Pikionis in his facet as an architect, but also in all his breadth as a painter, thinker and also as a fundamental figure for the avant-garde in Greece since the creation of the magazine To Trito Mati(The Third Eye). The publication had a great weight “in the 1930s for aesthetic theory and artistic practices.”
Curator Covadonga Blasco also points out that they wanted to turn the exhibition into a space where “to vindicate slow time”, something Pikionis -who she defines as “a quiet man”- attached great importance to.
Opening hours and tickets for the Dimitris Pikionis exhibition.
The exhibition can be visited at the CBA’s Sala Minerva until April 27th at the following schedule:
- Tuesday to Sunday: from 11h to 14h and 17h to 21h.
- Mondays closed.
As for tickets can be purchased through the website of the CBA and there are three rates:
- General admission: 5,50€.
- Reduced admission: 4€.
- CBA members: free
New architecture museum in Madrid
If you like architecture, we recommend that you take a tour of the Architecture Gallery of Madrid, the new COAM museum with which they wanted to create “a permanent exhibition space of the architecture of the Community of Madrid“. It has a Permanent Hall and a Temporary Hall, which gives visibility to both national and international architects and studios.