Greek Tradition Minister Lina Mendoni expressed anger on Saturday night time after a London Vogue 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 stated in an announcement.
“The administrators of the British Museum trivialize and insult not solely the monument but in addition the common values it conveys. The situations of exhibition and storage of the sculptures, within the Duveen Gallery, are consistently deteriorating. It’s time for the stolen and abused sculptural masterpieces shine underneath the attic gentle,” he added.
The sculptures have 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 serious attraction for guests to the British Museum in London, have been stolen, whereas the UK claims they have been obtained legally.
The British Museum Act 1963 prohibits the removing of objects from the establishment's assortment.
However officers on the museum, which is underneath strain to repatriate different international antiquities, haven’t dominated out a doable 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 reducing the Mona Lisa in half.
