The Taureapolis of Susan Vargas Stefani

The painter Susan Vargas Stefani presents her latest work at ‘Kypriaki Gonia’ Gallery in Larnaca, on 8 December 2009. The title of the exhibition: Taureapolis. Following her successful presentation three years ago at the same gallery, this time she returns with new work, more vivid and more colourful. The subjects of her work are taken from reality, the places she has lived in and travelled to – Latin America, Europe, Cyprus – but also from images of the dream as created from the painter’s fantasy. The Bull’s image which is at the centre of her subject matter is surrounded by scenes with human figures that are transferring buckets or holding umbrellas framed by flying cyclists and cars and boats ‘sailing’ in the streets.... All this occurring in an urban environment structured artistically in the painter’s style.

Caroline Frances, the American poet, says that “the thematic motif of the bull does not only show Susan Vargas’s cultural background, with the culture produced by bullfighting, but shows the mixing of civilisations, the Latin American with the Mediterranean...

“In some of her works, she uses Minoan Bull-Leaping as a source of inspiration. These themes, however, possibly constitute a pretext for the painter. What she is aiming for is something from man’s deepest behaviour and human nature. This synthetic procedure occurs with clear figurative terms. The bull images in her works, with the odd figures of the town, look like ceremonial processions and exude an existential and metaphysical mystery. The technique and the use of material have an ingenious freshness and her plastic structures have the power of simplicity. These qualities reveal a painter who knows her work well but who is not easily satisfied. Susan Vargas Stefani’s work is proof that some artists can revive painting. Minister of the Interior, Mr. Neoclis Sylikiotis will open the exhibition on Tuesday 8th December at 7 pm

The exhibition will continue until 30th December.

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Sunday: 11.00 am - 2.00 pm & 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm