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art & SOUL

a nEW InstItUtIon with the clearly audio installation and digital app.” Creative duo
defined goal to highlight, support and promote Theodoros Zafeiropoulos and Yorgos Rimenidis
creative expression in Greece, and a passion – a visual artist and an architect, respectively –
project for bluegr CEO Gina Mamidakis, the took inspiration from the natural, historical and
G. &. A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize was mythological prominence of the eight winds
established to promote excellence in art and through the ages to design a reimagined Tower
showcase leading creative talent in the country. of the Winds, after the marble structure found
Currently in its inaugural year, the award saw near the Athens Acropolis. Jointly created, the
Greek artists submit their proposals by the end resulting sculptural installation, which has
of April 2019. A committee of leading figures been installed at the Minos Beach art hotel,
in art as well as the Foundation’s Director, Gina incorporates a sound simulation of each of
Mamidakis, was put together, featuring experts the eight winds of the Mediterranean, which
such as art historian Sotiris Bahtsetzis, who have powered the sails of ships, inspired the
serves as artistic director of the Foundation, imagination of Greeks and sculpted the land
and academics from the Higher School of through the ages. Fully interactive, the two
Fine Arts, the University of Thessaly and the artists’ columns are activated when a visitor
National Technical University of Athens. approaches, giving off the corresponding wind
Presented to the public in July, as part of sound, which is also available to all guests
blueFest Crete 2019, the winning project has to download as a ringtone. In further tribute
come to life at the open-air gallery of the Minos to tradition, these soundscapes are digitally
Beach art hotel, with its creators enjoying processed recordings of traditional music Top: Minos Beach art hotel, the
artists-in-residence status. from eight different parts of the world. The site of the winners’ installation.
An inspired, ambitious project titled "Come work is presented as part of the Art on Blue Above: Yorgos Rimenidis and
Theodoros Zafeiropoulos
with the Wind" (2019) was selected for its series of exhibitions organized by the G. &. A. collaborated on "Come with the
“especially intelligent combination of sculpture Mamidakis Foundation and curated by the art Wind," winning the Art Prize with
and new media, implemented as a sculpture/ historian Sotirios Bahtsetzis. their proposal.

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