About a month ago, I was for a few days in Mykonos, where one night, while walking around the Chora, I saw under the weak moonlight the most beautiful Aegean sculpture, Panagia Paraportiani! The little white church looked like something much more than a religious building, so I called it a sculpture, a work of art. Next morning, I went back to see the sculpture bathing in the morning sunlight.
The little church is adapted with wisdom to the residents’ daily needs and is included in a spectacular way in the simple beauty of the Cycladic landscape. The wisdom of the economy of materials limited in minimal internal space, ingenuity that was necessary for surviving under hard conditions, the exploitation of favorable orientation for the protection from the Aegean winds and the cold, match up architecture with its natural possessing landscape and thus make it part of nature itself.
The unique flowing curves of the whitewashed cubes, their smooth and asymmetrical shapes, this cleanliness of forms, under the blinding Aegean light, in dimensions near the scale of a person compose a fascinating movie set. Their smooth-edged corners give out a sense of space and freedom, as the air is delicately carving them year after year.
Unique and charming, every sculpture-church in the Cyclades seems to be designed by the hand of the same artist – works of art bound together in perfect harmony, with stunning simplicity but with a daring style!
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