013 Metapolitefsi

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Metapolitefsi, 2024
Athens Epidaurus Festival
Art exhibition ephemera design

The emblematic TV programme ‘A film, a discussion’ (ERT, 1976–82) by Robert Manthoulis had been a crucial meeting point fostering dialogue among Greek intellectuals of the post-war period. Within the framework of Athens Epidaurus Festival, curator Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, art historian and curator Christoforos Marinos, and author Christos Chryssopoulos completely reconstructed the programme’s set design, hosting live discussions, artistic performances, an exhibition as well as an art-film screening programme, commenting on the timeline of the Metapolitefsi era.

The central idea of the design concept was based on a peculiarity of the Greek flag’s blue. Unlike in other countries, since the beginning of Metapolitefsi its particular shade has not been specified — as a result, flags with different versions of it have been circulating ever since, with a bright, pure blue (reflex blue) being the most common. On the other hand, during the military dictatorship (1967–74) the shade was much deeper and darker (midnight blue). In the final design we see a grid system where the two shades have been ‘bridged’ with 48 intermediate ones (thus gradually reaching from one to the other), giving a total of 50, as many as the years of the anniversary. The above concept is further visualised typographically through the choice of two stylistically complementary typefaces: the historical GFS Didot (Takis Katsoulidis) and the experimental VTF Lack (Adrien Midzic), undelining the duality of the two ends of the colour spectrum.