08/27/2026
CULT Aimee Friberg is pleased to present Reflections of Mani, a solo exhibition of new paintings by British-born, Athens-based artist William Roper-Curzon. Rooted in the landscape of Greece’s Mani Peninsula, the exhibition brings together paintings made directly in the landscape alongside larger works developed from memory in the artist’s studio in Athens. The exhibition runs from September 10 to October 24 at CULT Aimee Friberg (1401 16th Street).
At the southern edge of the Peloponnese, Mani is one of Greece’s wildest and most elemental landscapes—a terrain of exposed limestone, rocky outcrops, pebbled beaches and steep hills descending into crystalline turquoise waters. Olive trees, prickly pears and silvery-green scrub emerge from the dry earth, while the colors of the hills shift between purple, brown, yellow and green beneath the bright, intense light of an unobstructed sun.
Roper-Curzon has returned repeatedly to Mani, drawn to both its physical rawness and the sense of an older world that remains palpable there.
Pausanias, the geographer famous for his travel writing and descriptions of Greece in the Roman era, wrote of its sacred places and traditions, while centuries later Constantine VII recorded the persistence of ancestral beliefs and practices among its people. For Roper-Curzon, this history is not separate from the landscape but embedded within it. Mani is truly a living palimpsest, its terrain bearing and accumulating traces of geological time, ancient mythology, ritual, conflict, generations of cultivation and human habitation—all occupying the same ground and continuing to make themselves felt in the present.
Join us for an opening reception on September 10 from 6–8 pm, with an artist walk-through preceding the opening at 5:30 pm.
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