Dimitris Pikionis reveals himself in the exhibition as a painter, thinker and key figure for the avant-garde in Greece from the creation of the magazine To Trito Mati (The Third Eye), a fundamental publication in the 1930s for aesthetic theory and artistic practices.
Through the study of the creative process of six of his most recognized architectural works, "Dimitris Pikionis. An aesthetic topography" presents the architect's work as a fusion between modernity and tradition.
The exhibition curated by Juan Miguel Hernández León and Covadonga Blasco, shows images, drawings and plans by the architect that are interspersed with the author's own words through his thoughts, reflections, and autobiographical notes on Pikionis' landscape treatment of the entrances to the Acropolis of Athens.
The exhibition features an unpublished interview with Agni Pikioni, the architect's daughter, and a large topographical model on display for the first time on the complete intervention of the rehabilitation project of the accesses to the Acropolis.
Dimitris Pikionis studied painting and sculpture in Munich and Paris, where he came into contact with modern painting, especially the work of Cézanne and Paul Klee, or the sculpture of Rodin.
When he returned to his native Greece, he rediscovered his architectural vocation without abandoning painting, which he filled with pictorial references reflected in pavements such as those of the accesses to the Acropolis of Athens.
His architecture sought to integrate tradition with modern abstraction, condensing in its form the desire to attend to the condition of Hellenic identity culture as a reconciliation between the West, the East and Byzantium.
