Lazaris Argyrou: Watercolours & Mosaics

Lazaris Argyrou presents his new works, watercolours and Mosaics in his solo exhibition at Gallery Kypriaki Gonia from 13 of October until 3 November 2017. Opening by Mr Costas Hadjigeorgiou, Philologist and Literary Critic, on Friday 13 /10 /2017 at 7.30 p.m.

Lazaris Argyrou was born in 1938 in the village Agrokipia and is the eldest son of a rural family of nine children. Soon as he finished his primary education he began his struggle for living working at his parent’s farm and later as a building mason. At various tomes of his life he worked as a miner in the ore mines of Mitsero and Agrokipia.

He started drawing and painting at an early age. He would gather coloured ore rocks from the mine area or small chunks of house plaster to use them as material to draw or paint on the cobblestones of a threshing floor or on the flat surfaces or rocks abounding in the river bed of Serahis.

He bought his first watercolour paints and paper in 1960. Between 1962 and 1964 he followed the Athens ABC correspondence art course. Since 1968 he has been actively involved in sculpture and as from 1995 he regularly attends a studio in Nicosia and draws the nude. Recently, since 2000he has been actively involved in mosaic work. He had many solo exhibitions and he participated in many group ones in Cyprus and abroad Athens, German Bulgaria, Cuba

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Monday - Friday: 10:00 - 13:00 & 16:30 - 19:30
Saturday: 10:00 - 13:00