Light Columns
a reconstruction of the Apollo Temple of ancient Aegina with light.
This artistic/scientific attempt to temporarily simulate and visualise a historical monument is as well of philosophical and theoretical, as of symbolic importance.
Concept & realization by the Austrian artists Gustav Deutsch, Hanna Schimek in cooperation with the architect Franz Berzl, carried out with the advice of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Salzburg/Austria and the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens.
The project is realised with the support of the Programme Culture 2000 of the European Union;
the National Cultural Fund, Hungary (H); the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Hungary (H); the Goethe-Institut, Athens; The British Council, Athens; Austrian Airlines, Athens; the Highlights Magazine; the Athener Zeitung; the Austrian Embassy in Athens and from the side of Austria, the Art section of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
