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The \u201cFront of Candles\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0\u201cNoEMATA”\u2014 Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity toToday\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the exhibition woven together at the Acropolis Museum by its director, Professor Nikos Stampolidis \u2014 to whom I am deeply grateful for the great honor of his choice \u2014 itself interwoven in the threads of time\u2019s allegories, time that spends us, unspent, and\u00a0\u201clike wax before the fire\u2026 we melt.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

(we melt\u2026 each of us like wax in our own flame).<\/em><\/p>\n

Christos Bokoros<\/p>\n

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What remains is an ancient lock, opening a crack of light in the darkness of oblivion\u2019s iconlessness = \u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1 = non representationalism; the marvelous blue of a tormented cloth made painting; the little lamps and candles lit in memory by the painter\u2019s hand upon gold-embroidered silks and humble smoke-darkened cloths; the worn woods with their old nails, the rusted hinges, the colorful scraps submitting to the strict geometry of the Logos to become a labyrinth of joy; the lost purple resurrected from the earth, stealing grace from the sun as it sets.<\/p>\n

What remains is Pandora\u2019s rusted box, filled by art with radiant hopes of multicolored dreams\u2026 What remains is the pursuit of beauty giving wings to the soul\u2026 The art of noble transformation that elevates the humble, seeking the sublime, opening the path of upliftment\u2026 What remains is the passion and love drawn from the ancient source, able to set matter\u2019s memory free \u2014 to resurrect and transfigure, showing through deed the road to transcendence\u2026 What remains is the art that saves.<\/p>\n

In 1997, Christos Bokoros came to Aegae and, in humble obedience,\u00a0became<\/em>\u00a0the hand of his ancient fellow craftsman, helping to resurrect the ivory-and-gold royal couches. Now, at the height of his artistic path, he returns to converse once again with the ancients. The Macedonians loved painting \u2014 from Zeuxis to Nicomachus and Apelles \u2014 and Aegae was blessed to know the works of the greatest classical painters. It is, in fact, the only place where fragments of their masterpieces have survived to this day.<\/p>\n

The museum, aspiring to revive the memory of the royal metropolis of the Macedonians, could not but continue this fertile dialogue with art. It is our great joy and honor that Christos Bokoros has agreed to be the first to take up the ancient thread once more, opening the\u2026<\/p>\n

Aggeliki Kotaridi<\/p>\n

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