ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The sculpture shows a shabbily-dressed man slipping off what appears to be a graph, an economic index perhaps, that is crumbling under his feet. His mouth is distended in something less than a scream, more than a cry.

ATHENS, Greece (Xinhua) – While negotiations between Greece and its creditors are at a critical point, with the country warning it is running out of cash by the end of the month, a new public sculpture in Athens highlights the devastating effect of the crisis on the Greek society and the people.

”Artist Anastasios Nyfadopoulos from Athens is the winner of a global arts Award from Red Line Art Works, a UK-based global arts project. The annual Award is for art that deals with big global concerns (such as climate change, inequality, war, poverty, patriarchy, bad leaders, etc).

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In the countdown to Syriza marking 100 days in office, Greece got its first crisis monument. Arms outstretched, mouth wide open, his face locked in despair, the sculpture depicts a man dangling from a financial index in free fall. Below, his world of concrete and stone lies broken and smashed.
Officially known as the “crisis work”, the art piece has attracted a steady flow of spectators to the place where it has been erected, in the shadow of a bridge on the boulevard that connects Athens to the sea. Flowers lie next to it as if in mourning for all that has passed.

A new space for contemporary sculpture exhibitions opens on Friday, September 10, in Maroussi, featuring an exhibition that not only holds artistic interest but also includes a significant aspect of practical solidarity: The internationally awarded sculptor Anastasios Nyfadopoulos, in collaboration with the Hellenic Red Cross, will donate 50% of the exhibition’s proceeds to those affected by this year’s fires.

As one of the most recognized visual artists of abstract art, Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944) has written, the color of blue, the typical blue color of the sky, when submerged in black, suggests the non-sadness, and this fact constitutes an immense deepening in serious situations, where obviously, the end doesn’t and cannot exist.