Until we meet once more… is an exhibition which showcases works by twelve modern Cypriot ladies artists towards the backdrop of CVAR’s (Centre for Visible Artwork and Analysis) prestigious assortment.
The exhibition invitations viewers to expertise a difficult but thrilling endeavour that presents these artists’ poetic encounters with the historical past of the island of Cyprus, bridging notions via subjective and shared experiences, and in flip query meanings in our present local weather.
Collaborating artists: Alev Adil, Anber Onar, Dicle Özlüses, Dize Kükrer, Evelyn Anastasiou, Gönen Atakol, Koula Savvidou, Lito Kattou, Maria Perendou, Marina Xenofontos, Melina Shukuroglou and Oya Silbery.
Information:
December 16, 2021- February 15, 2022
On the CVAR – Centre for Visible Artwork and Analysis, Nicosia
Until we meet once more… is curated by Nicos Chr. Pattichis, Esra Plümer Bardak, Oya Silbery, and is coordinated by the Centre for Visible Artwork and Analysis.
Mr. Nicos Chr. Pattichis writes concerning the exhibition:
Within the 13 years since my debut try in curating a significant museum exhibition to this third invitation, Cyprus has been via rather a lot. An excessive amount of.
The primary public presentation in 2008 of a personal modern artwork assortment at NIMAC (Nicosia Municipality Artwork Centre) “The place Do We Go From Right here?”* posed a vital query, expressing because it did the anguish of division, particularly throughout a time of elation – and delusion!
A large number of artists representing the modern artwork scene on the island delved instinctively inside, intentionally leaving unanswered questions, like a path of breadcrumbs for the satiated spectators of the time.
In 2012, the desolation of a “Utopia”* unfolded on the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Basis in Limassol with the second presentation of a ‘Cypriot Up to date Artwork’ assortment which got here of age on an island that remained stubbornly immature, irresponsible and indecisive.
Our artists had been engaged, the forewarning of the eminent hazard: The monetary and ethical decline which adopted was masterfully interpreted by the artwork items chosen and introduced on the time. Warnings which fell on deaf ears.
From the plunder of the economic system in 2013, in a dramatically quick interval infested by numerous viruses, we rapidly reached 2021 with prospects of a viable answer of the
Cyprus downside decimated and the reunification of our nation merely an extended misplaced dream.
When Rita Severis requested me to contribute to her imaginative and prescient of the primary exhibition of up to date artwork on this pleasant museum, my revived artwork conscience awoke, exclaiming, “Until we meet once more!”
For my delicate Rita, modern artwork on this specific area meant “small work, oils on canvas, watercolours, or acrylics as the best of concessions” and naturally solely within the devoted floor flooring exhibition area. This place was simply overturned – she being open-minded and a visionary – into interventional installations from your complete modern artwork repertoire among the many everlasting displays, and on all 4 flooring of the museum.
The intention of the bold exhibition committee: For a considerable variety of Cypriot ladies to converse with the a whole lot of travelling artists to this blessed – some would possibly add cursed – island.
Twelve ladies, who weave a residing and respiration tapestry of the island’s creativity over the previous 30 years. Artworks by six Turkish Cypriot ladies (Alev Adil, Dize Kukrer, Dicle Özlüses, Anber Onar, Gönen Atakol and Oya Silbery) are introduced alongside works by an equal variety of Greek Cypriots: Koula Savvides, Maria Perendou, Marina Xenophontos, Evelyn Anastasiou, Lito Kattou and Melina Shukuroglou. Artwork historian Esra Plumer Bardak and I’ve curated the present.
Beneath the glowing gaze of Caterina Cornaro, these twelve Cypriot ladies share codes and secrets and techniques, change experiences of lives dedicated to artwork, because the curators juxtapose similarities and inventive variations throughout the multi-coloured rooms of CVAR with their displays courting from the sixteenth century.
I sincerely aspire to a fruitful dialogue between CVAR and the twenty first century and to common displays of up to date artwork to the guests and associates of this jewel of a museum; a beacon of tradition for the divided metropolis of Nicosia, reaching out to its long-suffering neighbourhood, its nice European household, and the world at giant.
Nicos Chr. Pattichis,
Writer, architect, artwork collector