Programme 2024

For the third consecutive year, the stonemasons workshop of Aspasia Papadoperakis, with George Martsakis as the instructor, will attract international artists to the villages of Rokka and Kera. This year’s workshop consists of two parts. Students will sculpt the stone and give it shape, but will also be acquainted with the art of building traditional settlements, by studying both the theoretical background of this fascinating art and the practical side, creating their very first constructions! The ultimate goal of this village’s Stonemasons workshop is to organize an International Symposium with invited artists and scientists from around the world for 2020.

Participation Decleration

Deadline for application: July 21st, 2019

for you declaration of participation fill in the online form

Biographies

Aspasia Papadoperaki

Aspasia Papadoperakis, born in 1942, is a sculptor from Rokka. She studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts 1966-1972 with a first scholarship from IKY. From 1975 to 1978, with a scholarship of EOMMEX, she attended the Beaux Arts in Paris and the Vincennes Theater. For her sculpture she uses elements from her studies in the human figure and from the Aegean folk architecture and archaic sculpture. Her studies have been published in books, newspapers and magazines, and has taken part in World and Pan-Hellenic Symposia and Conferences. She has made scenes, masks and costumes for theatrical performances. In the theater she has collaborated with Yannis Tsarouchis, V. Nikolaidis, G. Hatzidakis and Th. Kittou. She has published the books. Cavafy, Studying Theotokopoulos, About Sculpture, The Epicurean poet KP Cavafy and Lucretios at the Erotokritos of Vitsentzos Kornaros. Some of them have been translated into English as well. She has published books: The Treasury of the Siphnians, The History of the Human Figure and Measuring Measures and the Human Body.

George Martsakis

He lives and works permanently in Livadia Inachorion, where he has been working for the last 19 years with stone and its forms, history, culture and architecture. In 2017 he participated in the stoneworks workshop and from 2018 he teaches the participants under the guidance of Aspasia Papadoperakis.