April is the first step into the hot art summer. This month, ARTNOW Magazine highly recommends seizing the opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant art scene, starting with the big art Friday in Limassol featuring three exhibitions in a row. Additionally, don't overlook the opening day of CYENS x Agora and a group artist show in Lefkara, alongside a myriad of other art events.
Limassol
The “Panoptic Society”, video and installation by Andria Zachariou
The “Alevtina and Tamara”, art book presentation and art exhibition by Skolzki
"Alevtina and Tamara" is the first presentation and showcase of the graphic novel created by Skolzki. This artefact book about Alevtina and Tamara is a collection of noir fairy tales decorated with surrealistic illustrations and calligraphic textual elements that offer a special look at life's trials and inner formation. Created over ten years by the author exploring his inner worlds and the depths of his personality through metaphors and symbols. The book consists of more than 100 illustrations with handwritten stories behind the picture. Each story is a separate metaphorical tale but together they compose one big narrative. Original paintings, graphics, sculptures and an edition of prints complement the exhibition. Curators ARTNOW.
When: 05/04, 6 - 10pm and 06/04, 12 - 10pm. The artist talk will take place on Saturday, 06/04, 4pm.
Where: Old Vinegar Factory (Mitos Centre of Performing Arts), Genethliou Mitella 34
The “Calls and Songs” exhibition by Stelios Kallinikou
The exhibition presents a body of work that explores how human beings have registered and altered the environment through technologies, and how we relate to recording devices. Along with the lyricism of his depiction of bodies, animals, plants, or human constructions, Kallinikou takes a physical and ideological stance in relation to the lens and the image, which is then mirrored and expanded in his audiences’ acts of looking.
The “Mindfully yours, the atom” exhibition by Daniela Busarello
The works selected for the show are part of a hypothetical correspondence in which the chemical atom by signing off ‘mindfully yours’ challenges any preconceived ideas about ourselves, everything we contain and everything that contains us. The exhibition will present works previously shown in international institutions and collections including Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil, Fondazione dell’ Alberto d’Oro and Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti in Venice, and PAD in Paris, London, and Art Basel Design Miami in Basel.
Limassol Photography Festival in its second edition is dedicated to Sports. As much as 28 local and international photographers will showcase various sports and world competitions, as well as portraits of renowned athletes.
"Museum of Memorials and a Tribute to 50 years since the 1974 Tragedy" by Maria Hagjitofi
The exhibition will be inaugurated by Dr. Nadia Anaxagorou, Director of Cultural Services, Limassol Municipality.
When: 12/04 — 27/04, opening day 12/04, 8pm
Where: Rouan Gallery, 28 Dodekanisou
Free entrance
Nicosia
The ήταν ωραία, a solo exhibition by Elena Savvidou
Through diverse experiments with materiality, particularly attending to clay and its propensity to break, mutate, and capture memory and affect, Savvidou constructs a volcanic landscape inhabited by relics of the present and creatures yet unknown. Merging sculpture, sound, light, and movement, the exhibition attempts an archeology of the future through a multisensory or synesthetic environment that is dreamy but desolate, dead yet somehow still breathing; an impression of digital experience and a portal to a world without time.
When: until 06/04, working hours Thu - Fri, 6.30 - 9pm, Sat, 11am - 1pm and 3 - 9pm
The “Greek and Cypriot printmakers in France (1920 - 2000)” exhibition
This second exhibition includes works by Yannis Kefallinos, Dimitris Galanis, Polykleitos Regos, Lambros Orfanos, Mario Prassinos, Alekos Fassianos, Sarantis Karavouzis, Yulika Lakeridou, Aristidis Patsoglou, Stella Lancia, Christos Kalfas, Christos Christou, Paris Prekas, George Varlamos, Panagiotis Tetsis, Thodoros and Christos Karas. The prints are wood engravings and woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs, zincographs, etchings, aquatints, drypoint and sugar lift etching. Several works were donated to the museum while others are museum purchases.
"Dear Cyprus," is a collective art exhibition serving as an open letter to the entire island, expressed through the diverse perspectives of 29 artists who have called Cyprus home in one way or another. Nestled within the cultural tapestry of this Mediterranean gem, these artists delve into themes that traverse the island's rich history, touching upon sociopolitical nuances that have shaped its people.
When: 20-21/04 and 27-28/04, opening day 20/04 6 - 10pm, working hours 11am - 1.30pm and 4 - 8.30pm
The AGORA, a historic structure undergoes a remarkable transformation, becomes CYENS' groundbreaking headquarters. The building will be a meeting point not only for the community but for visionaries, researchers, and enthusiasts alike. At the opening you will see an exhibition and live performances.
