To portraito kai hē krisē tēs anaparastasēs

In 2004 ... half a century since the death of Antonis Benakis, founder of the Benaki Museum the Foundation ... decided to honour his memory with a series of events ... among them the report "Similarity: Ekdoches a portrait of Antonis Benakis" (2 Dec. 2004 to 30 Jan. 2005), curated by Thanassis Moutsopoulos. The report was aimed at exploring the possibilities and orientations of the representation of human forms, as a large number of modern Greek artists, faced with photographic or other previous depiction of the "model" ... the workshop was entitled "The portrait and the crisis of representation", carried out by, Fany-Maria Tsigakou and Thanassis Moutsopoyloy on 18 Jan. 2005 ... --an English translation of a portion of the preface taken from phigita.net.