Reasonable... Dear Art

An exhibition with the title “Reasonable…Dear Art” will open at Tehnis Dromena Gallery, 53 Arch. Kyprianou Street, Strovolos, Nicosia on Friday 19th of September at 7.00pm.

A huge collection of paintings by well known Cypriot and European artists. Among them Erro, Razes, Sylvia Woodcock, Votsis, Glyn Hughes, Makariou etc will be exhibited.

Curriculum Vitae:

Erro
ERRO is an Icelandic artist born in 1932 in Ólafsvík, in the North-West of Iceland. Admitted in the Fine Arts School of Reykjavik in September 1949, he graduated and became an Art professor in 1951. In 1952, he went to Norway where he studied engraving, fresco and painting at the Academy of Oslo. His first personal exhibition took place in 1955 in Florence, at the Galleria Santa Trinità. In 1958, he settled down in Paris where his work has been revealed in the context of the "Figuration Narrative" (Arroyo, Adami, Klasen, Rancillac, Monory…). During his travels throughout the world, ERRO collects pictures (advertisings, news photos, comics, posters, politics documents) which are his source of inspiration. He chooses them, assemblies them, accumulates them, at his own pleasure, always with humour, sometimes with anxiety and violence, on canvases in order to create paintings which are both made for reading and seeing. In some of his compositions, he skilfully inserts figures of Ingres' canvases, Delacroix, Léger or Picasso, and these figures are cohabiting with cinema stars, revolutionary or bloodthirsty politicians and comic strips heroes. He often works in series : Chinese, political, erotic cycles. He accumulates a huge quantity of material, and when he has collected a lot of images regarding a same topic, he can start a series. Then the process consists in selecting pictures, "marrying" them to make collages and finally create a canvas." In June 2001, the Erro Collection of the Reykjavík City is presented to the general public in its new surroundings in Hafnbarhúsid during a great retrospective. A lot of exhibitions are organized both in France and abroad. Several retrospectives were dedicated : in 1985, in the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and in 1999 in the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume. In 2005, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palma de Mallorca, and the Mannheimer Kunstverein, presented a retrospective (1958-2004) and then in 2006, the IVAM in Valence and Alcala 31 in Madrid. HE DENOUNCED AGAIN AND AGAIN THE ABERRATIONS OF OUR SOCIETY : DRIVEN CONSUMPTION, MERCANTILE EROTICISM, REVOLUTIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION, AMERICANIZATION OF LIFE.

Razes Angelos
He was born in Thessaloniki in 1943. He studied painting and printmaking at ASFA (1968-1973) taught by N. Nicholas K. Grammatopoulos. Between 1973-1980 he lived in Lesvos, where he focused on hagiography, and Troyes, France, where he studied Western Art. The painting is in line with realism and characterized by purity of expressive means, naturalness and immediacy of description. He draws inspiration from experiential situations and the his own environment. Still life’s and everyday utensils objects, amberjacks wreaths, votive, faded photos, flowers, fruits, old lace, dolls, toys, etc, arranged in sparse but calculated order on the floor of the workshop, are the subject of his works, which attaches to rigorous, frontal composition, attention to details and textures, accurate design and subtle tonal gradations of mainly hot colors. Gradually he imposes a metaphysical atmosphere with symbolic implications, intensified by the nostalgic mood, a sense of mental calm, poetic use of light, and the stillness of the figures.
He has presented his work in solo exhibitions («Melusine», Troyes, France, 1975 Stadttheater, Darmstad, Germany, 1975 "Kochlias", Thessaloniki, 1981; "Contemporary Printmaking," 1982 "Ariadne", Heraklion, 1987 «Albet le "Brussels, 1987.1993" Art Hall "1990,1995-" Eirmos "Thessaloniki 1991" Art Gallery Heraklion ", Heraklion, 1992 Art Athina-« Wind », 1992,1996« Gloria », Nicosia, 1994 "Epsilon" Thessaloniki 1995 "Expression", 1995.1999, etc.) and has taken part in group (Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki, 1969 "Art", Thessaloniki, 1970 "Wind," 1982, 1986 "Skoufas" 1987 - "Triangle", 1988, 1998 The Artists Observer "Observer", Thessaloniki, 1990 Visual Formalities of Time, "Aenaon" 1992 The "metaphysical" in Modern Painting, "Aenaon", 1996, etc.). He is a member of EETE.

Sylvia Woodcock
Sylvia Woodcock was born in Scotland. She studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and moved to Cyprus about 20 years ago where she lives and has her studio. Sylvia's work is very unique in the way she expresses herself, the ease of the line which creates a euphoria to the public and the freshness and her rich color scheme. Her subject matters derive from her environment around the countryside, the local festivities, customs and traditions of Cyprus, village weddings, baptisms, funerals e.t.c. She exhibited her work in London, Scotland, Cyprus the Emirates. Her work can be found in many private and public collections.

Votsis Stelios
Stelios Votsis was one of the greatest artists of Cyprus. He studied painting at Saint Martin's School of Art, at the Sir John Cass College of Art and at the Royal Academy in London. He graduated from the Slade School of Art, University of London in 1955.

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.

Makariou Andreas
Andreas Makariou studied painting with a scholarship at the Sourikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow from 1975 to 1979, painting at the Artamonof painting Department and monumental painting at the K. Toutevol Department of Monumental Art from 1979 to 1982.

The exhibition will be open until the 27th of September on the following days and hours:
Monday-Friday: 10.00-13.00, 17.00-20.00
Saturday: 10.00-13.00