{"id":20681,"date":"2026-04-22T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/?p=20681"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:34:16","slug":"aesthesis-a-reference-to-c-p-cavafy-by-the-artist-george-kordis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/aesthesis-a-reference-to-c-p-cavafy-by-the-artist-george-kordis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Aesthesis: A Reference to C.P. Cavafy&#8221; by the artist George Kordis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"4\">Numismatic Museum<\/b> presents a temporary exhibition titled <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"61\">\u201c<i data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"62\">Aesthesis<\/i>: A Reference to C.P. Cavafy\u201d<\/b>, featuring paintings by the artist <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"136\">George Kordis<\/b>. The opening ceremony will take place on <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"191\">April 25, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.<\/b> in the temporary exhibitions hall on the second floor of Iliou Melathron.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The exhibition constitutes a visual dialogue between prominent examples of Ancient, Roman, and Byzantine coinage and contemporary works by George Kordis. Through a fruitful engagement with the poet, the artist attempts not merely to illustrate, but to transmute the poetic body into an aesthetic locus of experience. This is a space where history is lived as an internal event concerning fate, power, and human dignity.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The aesthetic treatment of the dominant human figure draws its prototypes from Byzantine art, yet avoids stasis, achieving an expressiveness that evokes Hellenistic tradition. The visual composition functions as a theatrical stage, inviting the viewer, through hidden symbolisms, to delve deeper into the poetry of the Alexandrian.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Numismatic Museum presents a temporary exhibition titled \u201cAesthesis: A Reference to C.P. Cavafy\u201d, featuring paintings by the artist George Kordis. The opening ceremony will take place on April 25, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. in the temporary exhibitions hall on the second floor of Iliou Melathron. The exhibition constitutes a visual dialogue between prominent examples&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,83,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-periodic-exhibitions","category-news","category-periodic-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20682,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions\/20682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nummus.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}