Greek Tradition Minister Lina Mendoni expressed anger on Saturday night time after a London Trend Week present happened in entrance of the Parthenon Marbles on the British Museum.
Designer Erdem Moralioglu selected the spectacular setting of the Athens Parthenon sculpture exhibition corridor on the British Museum to current the autumn winter 2024 assortment of his eponymous model Erdem, impressed by the Greek singer María Callas and her interpretation of the opera Medea in 1953.
“By organizing a trend present within the rooms the place the Parthenon sculptures are displayed, the British Museum demonstrates as soon as once more its lack of respect for Phidias' masterpieces,” Mendoni mentioned in a press release.
“The administrators of the British Museum trivialize and insult not solely the monument but additionally the common values it conveys. The circumstances of exhibition and storage of the sculptures, within the Duveen Gallery, are always deteriorating. It’s time for the stolen and abused sculptural masterpieces shine underneath the attic gentle,” he added.
The sculptures had been taken from the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Greece within the early 19th century by the British diplomat Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin.
Athens maintains that the marbles, that are a significant attraction for guests to the British Museum in London, had been stolen, whereas the UK claims they had been obtained legally.
The British Museum Act 1963 prohibits the elimination of objects from the establishment's assortment.
However officers on the museum, which is underneath stress to repatriate different international antiquities, haven’t dominated out a attainable mortgage deal.
In late November, a diplomatic dispute drew consideration when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his “displeasure” on the last-minute cancellation by his British counterpart, Rishi Sunak, of a deliberate bilateral assembly to debate their long-running dispute over the Parthenon Marbles.
The subject of dialogue for London was the Greek chief's feedback in a BBC interview a day earlier than the assembly about possession of the two,500-year-old marbles.
Sunak was allegedly angered by Mitsotakis' feedback that having some marbles in London and others in Athens was like slicing the Mona Lisa in half.
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