YSMA announces the release of its latest film under the title: “Duplicating the Randomness”. The film is a production of the YSMA Documentation Office and deals with the way in which a traditional method for copying sculptures, with the use of a device called “pontadoros”, was adopted by the restoration of the Acropolis monuments. This method was for the first time used in the restoration of the Stoa at Vravron, in the 1960s, following an initiative of the architect Charalambos Bouras and the sculptor Stelios Triantis. Since the beginning of the restoration of the Acropolis monuments, the method has been continuously used, ensuring an excellent joining of marble supplements to ancient fragments.
Nowadays, when technology offers many opportunities to simplify and accelerate the process of producing marble supplements, the film draws from the rich Archive of the YSMA/ESMA with an aim to preserve memory, to present a traditional method of marble sculpting in an way understandable to the public and, on this occasion, to talk about the present and future of the Acropolis works.
Director/Cinematographer: S. Apostolopoulos
Production Company: Aori Films
The film features, in order of appearance: D. Christogiannis, Sculptor, F. Mallouchou-Tufano, Archaeologist–Deputy President of ESMA, V. Eleftheriou, Architect Engineer–Honorary Director of YSMA, R. Christodoulopoulou, Architect Engineer–Director of YSMA and S. Aggelopoulos, Marble Technician.
