Kikis Patsalos

Kikis Patsalos sixth solo sculpture exhibition.

The exhibition will be opened by the Deputy Mayor of Larnaca, Mr. Alexis Michaelides on Friday 16 April 2010 at 7.30 p.m.

The artist works with marble, steel, iron and Cypriot stone.

Born in Birmingham, England, of Cypriot parents from Kato Drys, he studied at Sir John Cass College of Art in London. His sculptures can be found in the State collection of Cyprus Contemporary Art, the Larnaca Municipal gallery, London galleries and in international private collections, and public squares in Cyprus, including the statue of Zeno of Kitium on Larnaca Sea front. He also represented Cyprus in the Budabest Biennale of 1978

The artist says about his work:

“I have been influenced by Kandinsky’s ‘Concerning The Spiritual in Art’ and Mercia Eliades book ‘Symbolism, the Sacred and the Arts’, also by Ancient and Eastern philosophy. Eliades discusses the meaning of myths, the origin of the scared from primitive to modern times. I think the act of sculpting places the sculptor in an endless chain back to prehistoric times when a hunter carved a bear out of a mammoths tusk, not to make what we would call art but to show his humility to the great bear, in his way he was expressing something sacred it became an idol for him.

Opening Hours
10:00 - 13:00 & 16:30 - 20:00