Beach Ruins
Galeria Municipal do Porto•May 10, 2025 — Oct 12, 2025
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Beach Ruins is a site-specific installation by Andreas Angelidakis at Galeria Municipal do Porto. Engaging with various notions of ruin – contemporary, ancestral or imaginary – the Greek artist-architect presents an intervention in which ancient columns embark on a journey across Europe, resting in Porto.
Beach Ruins key reference is the “Grand Tour”, a custom of the 17th to 19th Centuries in which upper-class people ventured on journeys searching for classic antiquity, the Greek ruins being one of the prime destinations. The installation subverts stable notions of reality, by transforming the ruined columns into characters who set off from southern Europe in search of new experiences.
Here, ruins are paired with parasols, setting the stage for a playful engagement with dynamics such as tourism, monumentality, class, taste, heritage or history. The installation is simultaneously a space of criticality, enjoyment and rest, where the superficial hardness of the stone is...More
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Beach Ruins
Galeria Municipal do Porto•May 10, 2025 — Oct 12, 2025
Press Release
Beach Ruins is a site-specific installation by Andreas Angelidakis at Galeria Municipal do Porto. Engaging with various notions of ruin – contemporary, ancestral or imaginary – the Greek artist-architect presents an intervention in which ancient columns embark on a journey across Europe, resting in Porto.
Beach Ruins key reference is the “Grand Tour”, a custom of the 17th to 19th Centuries in which upper-class people ventured on journeys searching for classic antiquity, the Greek ruins being one of the prime destinations. The installation subverts stable notions of reality, by transforming the ruined columns into characters who set off from southern Europe in search of new experiences.
Here, ruins are paired with parasols, setting the stage for a playful engagement with dynamics such as tourism, monumentality, class, taste, heritage or history. The installation is simultaneously a space of criticality, enjoyment and rest, where the superficial hardness of the stone is...More
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