Greece, the starting place of Artforum Culture Foundation, is an European country of strong contradictions, a region both central and peripheral, a historical and vital geographical point of passage, which has operated throughout history to distil alien ideas. Greece has to be understand as a link between two different civilisations and two different worlds to build up a connection between different civilisations and different worlds. These aspects from East, the Occident as well as the north and the south influenced Greek thinking and life. In this rich, different and contradictory intersection area, different views, influence and sensations could bundle up to themselves and cause the forming of an independent hellenic culture.
Today the overall situation may remain unknown to art-lovers as well as to art critics as well. The arts in Greece, the Balkan and most of the Mediterranean countries are isolated and get a few chances only under foreign cover. But this is at first a problem of incomplete images of this area and of interest and knowledge abroad, not a problem of quality of the modern and contem.
See also:Famous Greek Artists