Art for all

An exhibition of more than 10 well known artists will open at Tehnis Dromena Gallery, 53 Arch. Kyprianou Street, Strovolos, Nicosia on Monday 31st of March at 7.00pm.

A huge collection of paintings by well known Cypriot and Greek artists. Among them are Manousakis Michalis, Themistocleous Themis, Metaxas Stefos, Polydorou Christakis, Ioakim Costas, Hadjisavva Margarita, Stylianou Stelios, Votsis Stelios, Glyn Houghes etc will be exhibited.

A few words about some of the artists:

Manousakis Michalis
Born in Chania (Crete) in 1953, Manousakis was an Athens School of Fine Arts student of Demosthenis Kokkinidis (1979-1984). He presented his work for the first time in 1979 and has since organized nineteen individual exhibitions, on top of several group expositions in Greece and abroad. In 1994, along with Marios Spiliopoulos, Antonis Michailides, Vicky Tsalamata and Edouard Sacaillan, they won the Alexandria Biennale award for best National Pavilion. He has been teaching painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 1987 where he became an associate professor in 2009. He resides and works in Athens.

Metaxas Stefos
Stefos Metaxas was born in Larnaca in 1931. From his childhood he distinguishes his love for theatre, dance, music, singing, and sports. During his business trips abroad he visited museums and galleries enriching his knowledge about art. In 1988 he devoted himself in painting so with a lot of courage very quickly acquired excellent skills surprising everybody. His classmate and friend painter Stelios Votsis was from the start his teacher and later he became acquainted with the painter Andreas Chrysohos and at the same time he is taught from the great painter of the 20th century through their books and the exhibitions he follows internationally. In 2010 with the collaboration of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture he opened with success the House of Cyprus the exhibition with the title TRINITY, three artists create.
TRINITY is the story of cooperation among three friends who are painters from Cyprus. An exhibition-experiment by: Stelios Votsis, Stefos Metaxas and Stass Metaxas. The idea belong to Stefos Metaxas (1931-2010), a self-taught painter to whom the exhibition is dedicated to.

Themistocleous Themis
He was born in the village of Pahna in 1951. From an early age he started painting anywhere he was writing or carving. In his 5th grade of the elementary school he was awarded his first recognition in a Pancyprian art competition. In 1984 he presented his first solo exhibition in Limassol and since then he has exhibited fifteen solo exhibitions in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol. He has also taken part in group exhibition in Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria and Mexico. In 1995 the Association of Greek Writers and the following year the PanHellenic Educational Cultural Association and Art honoured him in Athens for his collective offer to Culture. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Association of Greek Writers and the PanHellenic Educational Cultural and Art Association and a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts Cyprus.

Polydorou Christakis
He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts, taught by John Morali and Dimitri Mytaras. He continued his studies at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He paints compositions with naked forms in enclosed spaces with expressionistic style. He presented his work in solo exhibitions in Nicosia and London. He has taken part in the Biennale of Young Mediterranean in Marseilles Biennale and the United Arab Emirates.

Ioakim Costas
Costas Ioakim was born in Bellapais Kyrenia, Cyprus. He studied art at Bath Academy or Art in Corsham, UK, and the University of Bristol, with specialisation in painting, sculpture and visual perception. He also specialized in art education. In 1963 he was awarded the Degree of Fine Arts and Education from the University of Bristol and in 1975, he received the Certificate of Fine Art of the School of Fine Arts from the Polytechnic in Athens. In 1981 he received the Diploma of Post Graduate Studies in aesthetics and History of Art, at Byam Shaw and Chelsea College of Art, London. Costas Joachim has held 15 solo exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad - in Berlin, Munich, Los Angeles, Paris, Montecatini, Hamburg, Athens and London.

Glyn Hughes
He was born in Wales in 1931. He studied at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire and in 1956 came to Cyprus to teach. In 1960 he founded the first gallery in Cyprus, the Apophasis Gallery, with Christoforos Savva. In 1971 he created Synergy, which was a combination of conceptual and environmental art event, held annually until 1974.

Maipas Themos
He was born in Konitsa in 1936. He studies sculpture in Athens at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and he was taught by Michael Tompros and later in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Superiere des Arts Decoratifs with Labisse. His first solo exhibition was in 1959 at his studio that housed the Foundation Tositsa in Kifissia. From 1960 until 1987, he held 16 individual exhibitions in various cities of Greece and abroad. During this period he also took part in many group exhibitions internationally.

The exhibition will be open until the 11th of April on the following days and hours:

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