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| Poly Kasda's Olympic Chrysalis monument 2004, which hosted the Olympic Flame in Floisvos Park, Athens. Photo by D. Sacquegna 30/7/12
"In
Greek, the Olympic Games are called Agones which means Agony, or, 'I
am 'striving towards Being' and this is why the champions were
venerated as Immortals.
The Olympic Chrysalis is a
logocentric monument reminding
us that the Olympic Games are not 'games' of survival, but,
expressions of the Agony of trespassing, like the Chrysalis, the
instinct of
survival itself. It is both a tomb and a womb".(P. Kasda, conference of the Beijing Biennale 2008) -The form of the cup was generated by the numerical modelling of the Greek word ΧΡΥΣΑΛΛΙΣ  |
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Olympic Chrysalis Monument Athens2004-Beirut2012
