Georgiadis Giorgos
SOS the Mediterranean in dangerCODE: Γ19-11 | L: 50cm,W: 58cm,H: 28cm
Material: Brass
Artwork of 2012. It was presented at the solo exhibition "Mythology Backwards" by Giorgos Georgiadis at Sianti Gallery. The Mediterranean is the sea where Odysseus, according to Homer, wandered because of the Trojan War from Ithaca to the shores of Asia Minor, Troy, as well as the island of Calypso, Ogygia in the Heracleian Columns of Gibraltar, having previously passed through the country of the Lotus- eaters to Tripolitida, then the island of the Sirens in the Straits of Messina, the island of Aeaea of Circe in the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the Laistrygons in Sicily again south of Etna, and from the country of the Giants probably again to Sicily of the One- eyed Cyclops and the island of Aeolus, today's Stromboli, Aeolia in Samothrace, as well as from Thrinakia, the land of the Sun on the shores of Sicily always meeting the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis to end up in the Hermones of Corfu knowing almost naked Nausicaa, daughter of the King of the Phaeacians Alcinous and Aretis. On the same island he was welcomed by his faithful swineherd Eumaeus and his son Telemachus. Then, driven to sea by the wrath of Poseidon, but with the help of Inou, also known as Lefkothea, sister of Semele and nurse of Dionysus, he managed to reach the coveted Ithaca and his wife Penelope after sixteen years, killing all the suitors who had overwhelmed the mythical palace each claiming for himself the throne and his wife.
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