Auction Again

Psatharis’ Auction house is organizing its second auction at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia, with works of Cypriot and Greek Artists on November 7 at 7.00 p.m. A total of 101 pieces of work will be auctioned. From those pieces, 78 were created by Cypriot artists, 23 by Greek Artists and two by foreign artists.

Among the works to be auctioned are works by of the following artists.

Christoforos Savva, Victor Joannides, Ioannis Kissonergis, Telemachos Kanthos, Nikos Nikolaides, Takis Frangoudis, Vassilis Vrionidis, Fotos and Xanthos Hadjisoteriou, Takis Apostolodis, Kyriakos Koulis, Yiorgos Mavroidis, Kostas Averkiou, Alecos Fasianos, Dimitris Koukos, Theodoros Papayiannis, Terry Frost and many others.

PREVIEW

Kypriaki Gonia Gallery – Stadiou Str., Larnaca

Thursday: November 1, 7.00 p.m. until 10.00 p.m.

Friday: November 2, 10.00 a.m. until 10.00 p.m.

Saturday: November 3, 10.00 a.m. until 10.00 p.m.

Sunday: November 4, 10.00 a.m. until 10.00 p.m.

Hilton Hotel - Nicosia

Monday: November 5, 10.00 a.m. until 10.00 p.m.

Tuesday: November 6, 10.00 a.m. until 10.00 p.m.

Wednesday: November 7, 10.00 a.m. until 6.50 p.m.

All pieces of work are also presented on the web page of the House at the following address

www.psatharis-auctions. com.cy

For written offers, participations by telephone, catalogue and information please contact.

Tel 00357-24621109 and 00357-99564131

Fax 00357- 24629198

Yet Another Auction Again

There is another auction later in the month. This is by Cypria Auctions and will be at the Hilton Hotel, Nicosia on November 28, at 18:30. It will include Greek and Cypriot paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. More information nearer the time

Painting

Stavros Kikas Gloria Gallery

This exhibition opened last night (Thursday, November 1) by Loukis Papaphilippou and continues until November 16.

Stavros Kikas was born in Nicosia in 969. Studied from 1990-1995 at the School of Fine Arts (ASKT) of Athens, at the Painting Laboratory of Dimosthenes Kokkinides. He also attended the engraving and Byzantine Hagiography and Inlay Laboratories at the same school.

He has had numerous exhibitions in Greece and also in Russia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria as well in Thrace, and here in Cyprus

In 1997 he took part in the 19th Biennial of Alexandria and has participated at the Festivals of Visual Art in Nicosia and Sky and Sea at Limassol.

In 1998 and 1900 he was in the Spring Annual in Venice, Lalazzo Corner Venezia, Italy gaining asilver medal. The Diploma of Excellence

In 2002 he gained first prize at the Cyprus Artists of the 3rd Millennium in Nicosia

Stavros is a member of the 1999 Art Addiction International Art Association AAIAA and has been represented in the Art Diary International and the Art Addiction Internet Museum.

This article was written before the opening (last night). However we have included photographs of his works on this art page. Looks excellent.

Tapestry

Norman Kenyon was so impressed by Jackie Sanderson’s work for Open Studios that he kindly sends this information to the Arts page

He is astonished at the level and skill and patience required to produce her tapestries, especially the large ones that take months to complete.

Jackie Sanderson is an artist who retired to Paphos in 1990. She added tapestry to her many other art forms after visiting a tapestry workshop and gallery in Orkney in 1990.

She was inspired by the sheer scale of the work and the range of bright colours used in the tapestry on display. The resident artist taught weaving and Jackie received some of her foundation notes on looma, bobbins, materials, etc. She has practiced tapestry skills on small looms of about 0.5 metres until sufficiently confident to try a full-scale loom product. Her first attempt was the Knossos Dolphin. This confirmed a talent in tapestry. She has experimented with various ideas in a subsequent self-teaching period stretching over seven years. Jackie has produced a further ten tapestries, some as big as 1.5 x 1.2 metres, mainly on a Greek mythology theme.

Her tapestries were well admired at her workshop in Open Studios this month. The clear favourites were Poseidon and her triptych, Orpheus’s Journey to the underworld. These, like most of her tapestries are ‘drawn’ from her own imagination.

The final sketch for each tapestry is scaled up as the cartoon and secured immediately behind the warped-up loom. Another cartoon showing the wool colours required in each part of the tapestry stands beside the loom for reference.

Jackie welcomes commissions for wall-hanging tapestries up to 1.9 metres in height.

Phone 26652060 or e mail at imsanderson@hotmail.co. uk"

Constantinos Ptochopoulos Gallery K

Born in 1979 Constantinos grew up in an artistic environment, being the son of a painter, Petros Ptochopoulos. He studied art at the Aristotelion University of Salonica. He now lives and works in Larnaca and has take part in 9 group exhibitions in Greece and Cyprus, plus one solo show.

The artist is inspired by the daily life in his own way, allowing his imagination to find solutions and induce the interest of the spectator in his own particular way; guiding him towards the art trends of our time. Evidently influenced by the abstract expressionism where any realistic trace is absent, his painting is bold, full of passion and quite personal. He explores light with strong colours and brushstrokes adding pulsating liveliness to his expressionist work. He creates his own world, offering colour and hope to our daily lives.

Christakis Polydorou Apocalypse Gallery

Polydorou creates his own visual narratives, often using couples on or holding bicycles. This gives him the opportunity to produce excellent figurative work, imaginative compositions and subtle colour variations.

Dawn Luing Marzano

Figurative paintings applied with confidence and a wonderful calmness. Extremely reasonable prices for such excellent work. Could be better lighting in the restaurant spaces but it’s a truly excellent show. Sensibly, the exhibition carries on for a few weeks.

The wonderful Anna Maria Maioline exhibition continues at The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art.

I hear Doros Heracleous has an exhibition later in the month (November 13, in fact) and that Martyn Meason will exhibit at Gallery Argo after the Barbara Georgiou exhibition. All very, very promisng.