The Work Living Stones are sculptures with life in the heart of the stone inlaying its veins and tissue with semiprecious stones, creating ancient images. These sculptures are created from natural stones in the fields and mountains of central Greece. Large natural rocks are sliced and polished and then carved Read more…
The great cities of the ancient world such as Rome and Athens are but babes in relation to the cities and towns of Thessaly in central Greece. The area of Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, has been continuously occupied since the Neolithic Age, and areas to the east have discoveries Read more…
NO !!! Enough! A cry from the souls of the people who invented democracy to the world that uses ‘democracy’ as a word to mean greed. Is today the renaissance? Is it the catalyst for another rebirth of the values of humanity? Is it the first day of the end Read more…
From dawn the tourists wait for a Santorini sunset. Through early morning the wind may reach Beaufort 7 and whip up white tops in the sea around the volcano in the caldera. Then the power of ‘old man sun’, as he climbs laboriously into the sky, gradually fills the cliffs Read more…
The story of Greece is the story of the foundation of grand sculpture and architecture. Energitismo is drawn to Greece as iron is to a magnet. It is not just to the many beautiful islands for the blue seas, sun and wonderful fresh seafood, but virtually everywhere on the mainland Read more…
Hippocrates was born in about 460 BC on the island of Kos near Turkey, where it is assumed he studied medicine (records of him by ancient Greek writers are scant). There are a variety of renditions of his life, but it seems that he spent over half of his about Read more…
Larissa may appear an unusual site for great archeology. Yet it holds a permanent memorial to the Homeric archeologist, Heinrich Schliemann. He was not just the archeologist who ‘discovered’ Troy, but also a man whose life has interested many historians and students of adventure. So how does Larissa surface in Read more…
A stone can tell the oldest and most incredible stories. Stories which have been locked and hidden inside it. The new mosaic jewellery sculpture by Antonis Karakonstantakis reveal even more: they are jewels. Small, unique works of art, destined to adorn, as he says, ” breasts of women”. Some stones Read more…
A few drops of rain on a late autumn evening in Plaka at the foot of the Acropolis, and we sit with Apostol and his surreal bronze sculpture in his showroom, The Athens Gallery. It is three months since our last ‘full summer’ visit and we hastened here to share Read more…
The new heart of stone creations of Antonis Karakonstandakis were presented in May at the Archeological Museum of Larissa (Geni Mosque) with the title “Scouting”. The exposition included three modules (Horizons – Candles – Landscapes) created with the artist’s original technique of inlays applied on natural rocks. Antonis Karakonstandakis uses Read more…
