Kostis Palamas was a poet, novelist, playwright, historian and literary critic. He is considered one of the most important Greek poets with a significant contribution to the development and renewal of modern Greek poetry, but also of the Greek language in general.
A point of silence in the bustling city.
The poet in a meditative attitude invites you to stop for a while from the running, the noise, the stress, to give yourself time and to think. But to think intentionally, not automatically, transiently and procedurally. To gaze at the city and your inner world in peace. Sitting in the heart of the center, a few yards from his now-demolished home, it is as if he stepped out onto the city balcony and stayed there forever; deep, inward, thoughtful and at the same time gentle; like another Rodin’s “Thinker”. He looks like an image from a historical, melancholic and philosophical photo album. An image that, as much as it contradicts the frenetic rhythms of the big city, brings it closer to the feeling of loneliness of the man who tries to give time and place to himself in the crowd. Kostis Palamas continues to speak to us in various ways, through his writings and his marble depiction. We will never know what he might think. But he will be there inviting us to make our own thoughts and to dive a little deeper into the issues of self and life.
Cultural Center of the Municipality
of Athens, 50, St. Akadimias, Athens
Sculptor: Vassos Falireas
Material: Μarble