Angels

Angels - Paiting Exhbition by Adi Atassi and Eleni Povi Karavioti

Adi Atassi
Adi Atassi was born in the city of Homs , in Syria, in 1962.
His love for art was primarily influenced by his early experiences in life, while growing up in a country, where landscape changes dramatically, where light is abundant and intense, and history and religion are to be found everywhere .At the age of 18 he entered the University of Damascus , where he studied Fine Arts.

In 1987 he moved to Cyprus, which was to become a second home to him. He started off as a lonely outsider. Nevertheless ,soon enough, the island became a familiar , friendly and loving environment in which he felt safe to create .

Although his earlier works concentrated primarily on realistic representations of the world , his new creations reflect a whole new approach which aims at the understanding of the “divinity” within us.
Adi’s angels are not supernatural beings. On the contrary, they bare the characteristics of everyday, ordinary people. That , which differentiates these angels , is their complete sense of inner freedom , the lack of any form to attachment to social rules or restricting fears.
In his work , Adi places his “human angels” within a social environment, in which not only do they belong, but within which they coexist in perfect harmony.

The strong , intense lines that determine the artist’s work bring to life his inner conception of the world.

Eleni Povi Karavioti
Eleini Povi Karavioti was born in Nicosia. In 1975 he completed her studies at “Doxiades”Foundation in Athens were she read Architectural Design and Graphic Arts. In addition , she attended art classes at Vakalo School in Athens and in an art school in Cyprus.

She is a certified teacher of “ The Sogetsu School of Ikebana Art of Japan’. All her work throughout the years reflects a sense of truth and poetry that transform through the past and present history.

“ My beloved angels, untiring travelers, messengers of love”

The angels close their eyes, they travel and dream in a beautiful world of no misery, pain and suffering.

Hope takes the form of a smile on their faces while they await the call of love.

The opening of the painting exhibition of Adi Atassi and Eleni Povi Karavioti, by the Ambassador of Syria Mr Nader Nader, will take place on the 15 of December, at 7:00pm.

Opening Hours
Monday-Friday 10.00-13.00, 17.00-20.00
Saturday 17.00-20.00