Author: Sonia Photiou

Exhibit8 gallery in Limassol organizes the solo underwater photography exhibition of Fanos Avouris, titled “Beneath the Horizon: From Akamas to Apostolos Andreas”. The documentation of the Cypriot underwater landscape allows Avouris to revise the boundaries between space and time via the act and sense of travelling. The exhibition presents a contemporary expedition in locations such as Akamas, Kyrenia and Famagusta.  The same places become a point of departure for a journey through time that invites the visitors to wander through the memories and the personal mythology of Avouris about the Cypriot seascape.

The opening event will be held by Aristos Aristeidou, owner and editor-in-chief of the Cyprus Yachting& The Cyprus Fishing magazines and organizer of the Limassol Boat Show, on Friday, July 28 at 19.30, while the exhibition will last till the 26^th of August.

An unexplored place, yet imperatively present in human life, the sea is a territory of common symbolisms and a liquid monument on which personal and collective history emerge as entangled. Starting from a short retrospection on the evolution of the practice and equipment of free diving, the exhibition presents photographs of impressive underwater landmarks of the Cypriot coastline. The images of the seabed captured by Fanos Avouris conversate with the visitors in an emotionally charged context that conveys loss, nostalgia and the questions left behind by the invasion of 1974. Colours and aquatic shapes merge with the traces created by the long human activity on the sea as well as with the delight of exploring an endless underwater cosmos.

At the exhibition “Beneath the Horizon: From Akamas to Apostolos Andreas”, the experience of freediving and photography as an art medium transform into navigation tools before innermost questions.

How can we appropriate the endless? How do we preserve in our memory something under constant motion and change? How do we capture a fluid element?

Fanos Avouris was born in Limassol in 1991 and comes from Κaravas village of the occupied Kyrenia province and from Zakynthos. He is freediving from a young age and during 2015 and 2022 he was part of the team that organized the world championship of free diving under the auspices of AIDA INTERNATIONAL. He works with underwater photography since 2014 and he has been awarded in photography competitions by the Cyprus Youth Board. He has participated in group exhibitions in Nicosia, Larnaka and Limassol while he is a permanent exhibitor at the Limassol Boat Show. During the last few years, his photographic work has been devoted to the exploration of the areas that his grandfather used to dive till 1974.

Галерея Exhibit8, в Лимассоле, организует персональную выставку подводной фотографии Фаноса Авуриса, именуемой «Под горизонтом: от Акамаса до Апостола Андреаса». Документальные кадры кипрского подводного ландшафта, сделанные Авурисом, помогают переосмыслить границы между пространством и временем, через путешествие по дну моря. Выставка представляет собой современную экспедицию в такие места, как Акамас, Кирения и Фамагуста. Они и становятся отправной точкой для путешествия во времени, приглашая посетителей побродить по воспоминаниям и личной мифологии Авуриса, через призму кипрского морского пейзажа.

Открытие проведет Аристос Аристейду, владелец и главный редактор журналов Cyprus Yachting и The Cyprus Fishing, а также организатор Limassol Boat Show, в пятницу 28 июля, в 19.30. А сама выставка продлится до 26 августа.

Неизведанное место, но обязательно присутствующее в человеческой жизни, море — это территория общих символов и жидкий памятник, в котором переплетаются личная и коллективная истории. Начиная с краткого обзора эволюции методик и снаряжения для фридайвинга, выставка представляет фотографии впечатляющих подводных достопримечательностей кипрского побережья. Изображения морского дна, снятые Фаносом Авурисом, словно беседуют с посетителями в эмоционально заряженном контексте, который передает утрату, ностальгию и вопросы, оставленные вторжением 1974 года. Цвета и водные формы сливаются со следами, оставленными длительной деятельностью человека в море, и удовольствием от исследования бескрайнего подводного космоса.

На выставке «Под горизонтом: от Акамаса до Апостолоса Андреаса», опыт фридайвинга и фотографии превращается в художественный инструмент, ведя наблюдателя по маршруту сокровенных вопросов.

Как мы можем постигнуть бесконечное? Как сохранить в памяти нечто, находящееся в постоянном движении и изменении? Как удержать жидкий элемент?

Фанос Авурис родился в Лимассоле в 1991 году. По происхождению он из деревни Каравас, оккупированной провинции Кирения, и острова Закинф. Фанос занимается фридайвингом с юных лет, а в 2015 и 2022 годах входил в состав команды, организовавшей чемпионат мира по фридайвингу под эгидой AIDA INTERNATIONAL. Он работает с подводной фотографией с 2014 года и был награжден за участие в фотоконкурсах Кипрским молодежным советом. Фанос участвовал в групповых выставках в Никосии, Ларнаке и Лимассоле, а также является постоянным участником выставки Limassol Boat Show. В течение последних нескольких лет его фотоработы были посвящены исследованию районов, в которых его дед погружался до 1974 года.

Sponsors of the opening event are Erimoudes Winery and their representatives, Oenoposis Wines& Spirits Distributors.

Curator: Eleanna Avouri

Art Direction: Sonia Photiou

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Duration:  28 July– 26 August 2023

Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10:00 – 23:00/ Saturday: 12.00 – 23:00

Private viewings are available upon request

Exhibit8 Gallery: Hatziloizi Mihailidi 21, Katholiki, 3041, Limassol, Cyprus

Information: www.exhibit8.com.cy, Instagram: exhibit8gallery, facebook: @exhibit8art, tel: +357 25 21 21 71

“There are eyes at the tips of my fingers.”

Exhibit8 gallery in Limassol organizes “There are eyes at the tips of my fingers”, the first solo exhibition by the Cypriot artist Marina Hadjiefthimiou. The work presented composes a visual translation of perceptions, mental and sentimental states as the subject of the exhibition is the artistic rendering of questions concerning the sense of existing and being present in the world. The exhibition will open on Friday 28 of April and will last till the 13th of May.

Phenomenology is the theoretical background which informs the artist’s work. The perceiving body and its perceived world are approached as inextricably entangled entities. Marina Hadjiefthimiou attempts to convey in artistic output the sense of bodily matter and intangible being.

More specifically, the exhibition concerns the sense of ephemerality, protectiveness, fragility or strength of the human body, the sensation of being in the world, of sharing the same world with others. The purpose is to create a meeting point where common human feelings are roused, to evoke empathy through a deeply sensorial presentation of artistic matter. The visual and the tangible become one and diffuse into space inviting the viewer to a haptic and experiential engagement and apprehension of the work.

“There are eyes at the tips of my fingers” includes works of various formats and materials like painted glassine vellum paper sculpture in an installation format and sculptural work made with clay or liquid glass. The material qualities and manipulation stand for and give reference to certain sensations. There is an interplay between concepts, media and processes of work so that an incorporated meaning is attributed. The viewer can walk through and around the work, engage with it and apprehend it experientially.

The artworks exhibited appear as abstract objects, anonymous in appearance, and have a strong material presence that bears witness to the creative process and stimulates bodily senses. The exhibition is accompanied by an ASMR soundscape that functions as a starting point for the expansion of the viewer’s sensorial possibilities.

The artist

Marina Hadjiefthimiou is a graduate of BA Fine Art (Hons) and also holds a Psychology BSc and MSc degree. She has a special interest in the artistic rendering of the personal human experience, using various methods and materials, inviting the viewer to a meeting point of communication and identification.

The opening event will be held on Friday 28 of April, at 19.30, by Maria Kouvarou, Doctor of Musicology and Writer

Sponsor of the opening event is Ezousa Winery and Ghalanos distributors.

Art Curation: Eleanna Avouri

Art Direction: Sonia Photiou

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Duration:  28 April– 13 May 2023

Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10:00 – 23:00/ Saturday: 12.00 – 23:00

Private viewings are available upon request

Exhibit8 Gallery: Hatziloizi Mihailidi 21, Katholiki, 3041, Limassol, Cyprus

Information: www.exhibit8.com.cy, Instagram: exhibit8gallery, facebook: @exhibit8art, tel: +357 25 21 21 71

ΕΚΘΕΣΗ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ «RESPECT», 1^η Ιουλίου– 14 Ιουλίου, γκαλερί Exhibit8.

Η γκαλερί Exhibit8 σε συνεργασία με την Πυροσβεστική Υπηρεσία Κύπρου διοργανώνει έκθεση φωτογραφίας με τίτλο «RESPECT».

Η έκθεση είναι αφιερωμένη στους πυροσβέστες,  τους ανθρώπους που αψηφούν καθημερινά τη ζωή τους για την δική μας ασφάλεια. Στους ανθρώπους που με αλτρουισμό και αυτοθυσία αντιμετωπίζουν κάθε πρόκληση,  έστω και αν  καταλήγει σε ιδιαίτερα επικίνδυνα συμβάντα.

Μέσα από την έκθεση προβάλλεται ένα μέρος του έργου της Πυροσβεστικής Υπηρεσίας και αποτίεται ελάχιστος  φόρος τιμής στους πυροσβέστες  που χάθηκαν εν ώρα υπηρεσίας.

Η έκθεση θα περιλαμβάνει φωτογραφικό υλικό που παραχωρήθηκε από την Πυροσβεστική Υπηρεσία, από επαγγελματίες και ερασιτέχνες φωτογράφους καθώς και φωτογραφίες του φωτογράφου Max Zhiltsov, συνεργάτης της Exhibit8 Gallery, με πυροσβέστες εν δράσει. Όλες οι φωτογραφίες της έκθεσης θα διατίθενται προς πώληση.

Τα καθαρά έσοδα από τις πωλήσεις της έκθεσης θα διατεθούν στην Παγκύπρια Οργάνωση Νεφροπαθών.

Επιμελήτρια έκθεσης: Άντρη Αριστοτέλους

Υπεύθυνη δημιουργικής ομάδας: Σόνια Φωτίου

Εικαστικός Σύμβουλος: Άννα Αγαπίου

Αφήγηση κειμένου: Θανάσης Ιωάννου

Εγκαίνια έκθεσης: Παρασκευή 1η Ιουλίου 2022, ώρα 19:30-22:00.

Διάρκεια έκθεσης: 1η Ιουλίου –14 Ιουλίου 2022

Exhibit8

Διεύθυνση: Γεωργίου Γενναδίου 16 και Αντρέα Θεμιστοκλέους, Καθολική, 3041, Λεμεσός, Κύπρος

Email: gallery@exhibit8.com.cy / Ιστοσελίδα: www.exhibit8.com.cy/ Τηλέφωνο: 25212171

Solo Art Exhibition Tess Turner, ‘The Internal Landscapes’, 3^rd of June 2022 – 30^th of June 2022, at Exhibit 8 Gallery

The opening event of the Exhibition ‘The Internal Landscapes’ was held on Friday, the 3^rd of June at 20:00 at Exhibit 8. The opening speech was held by Mr. Andreas Vryonides. The exhibition will last until the 30^th of June 2022.

BIO:

Tess Turner grew up on the island of Cyprus. Her travels during the early part of her life took her throughout Europe and later to the USA and the Middle East. Traveling became the beginning and foundation of her education in art. Apart from her little island which has so much ancient history, from mosaics to old streets to the turquoise sea that surrounds it, her travels to other countries have woken the sleeping giant. Wanting to capture what she sees and share it as her own vision defines her as an artist with her own extraordinary style.

Her talent and ability were recognized by renowned artist Stefan Bauman, who has become her coach and adviser as she continues her artistic career. In 2007 she opened her own studio and began creating as a professional artist. Since then, she has been invited to show her art at Fine Art exhibitions and galleries in Cyprus, Italy, and Boston Massachusetts USA.

“My paintings are full of passion and mood, and invite the viewer to experience a world of contemporary landscape expressionism.” To achieve the results she strives for, she uses a precise color palette directly reflective of the message she wishes to impart on the viewer. Tess works primarily in oil using a brush and palette knife to create her noteworthy pieces.

 Artist’s statement

“I capture the effect of light and shadow on my subjects and use this to create and invite interpretation of my work. I have been told that my art is something the viewer would… “want to step into”.
As a Plein air painter, I am drawn to the tapestry of shapes and color found in the villages of Cyprus, and, this mosaic of hews and tones are what I try to convey in my paintings. The light can change the mood of the houses and surroundings in an instant, and to capture it at the perfect moment is what I strive for, and to put this on canvas is my goal.

Art Curators: Andri Aristotelous

Art director: Sonia Fotiou

The exhibition will last until the 30^th of June 2022.

Exhibit8 Gallery

Address: 16 Georgiou Gennadiou and Andrea Themistokleous, Katholiki, 3041, Limassol.

Email: gallery@exhibit8.com.cy / Website: www.exhibit8.com.cy/ Τelephone: 25212171

Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00-23:00

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