The success of the first Event institutionalized the International Painting Symposiums and the continuous development.
I don’t like to hope, but the first event gave me that much power so I could continue this dialogue…
The International painting Symposium were organized since 2002. “Patras means homelands” in Patras started to communicate different cultures, different pallets, different religions and different political beliefs, the axis was art. Communication is based on art not on speech.
The dialogue that opens with art from country to country, from artist to artist is based on the language of art that is primordial and native language to the human kind irrespective the origin.
The point of the symposium is the intervention of art as axis of communication between people and countries not noticing the similarities and differences . Also the Symposiums simulate with art to revolutionize complacent societies and consciences
The objective of the symposium is elastic and multilateral, the important point is that the artists from any country all over the world have the ambition and dream to visit Greece and taste parts of the ancient and Modern Greek culture. Also, a history is created that can’t be performed with words or with art critics but with the artworks that are added to the collection of Zervas that consists today up to 8.000 artworks.
The remarkable artworks that create the artist from 80 countries are exposed in big and important exhibitions that are hosted in different countries.
The decision to launch the Symposiums comes from the personalize need for artistic action without borders and simultaneously repealing the cultural boundaries. The organization started with the belief that art is the communication language between people and countries despite the similarities and differences.
Also I believe that art is an integral part of the human dignity. It was a thought and an argument that found immediately the support of big international organizations as UNO, UNESCO, Action Aid, Green Peace, MSF(Doctors without Borders), Universities and Academies of fine arts, Ministries in Greece and other countries and Embassies of the countries that participate.