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Sneak Peek: ‘SHE’ Group Exhibition Opening event

The Opening of the exhibition ‘SHE’ was successfully happened on the 11th of March. We wish to thank the two significant women who gave the welcome speeches: Nadia Anaxagorou the Director of the Cultural Services at Municipality of Limassol and Kikoula Cotsapa the Past President of the board of friends of Cyprus University of Technology

‘SHE’
|Group Art Exhibition

The ‘SHE’ group exhibition is consisted of both female and male artists aiming to illustrate through their artwork the woman’s existence. Artists were invited to give their own interpretation of woman in their own unique style, technique and medium. The exhibition is consisted of paintings and sculptures.

SHE; female; woman

The female existence was a source of inspirations for artists, authors, poets and musicians throughout history. The prehistoric idols in Cyprus and Greece were the first known representations of the female figure. During classical period, in Greece, sculptors were creating sculptures inspired by female goddess and mythology. Furthermore, in contemporary era, artists are exploring, challenging and developing various concepts concerning the women and their surrounding environment.

Participant artists:

Paintings: Agisilaou Fani, Butovskaya Larisa, Constantis Leonidas, Efesopoulos Andreas, Ghazarian Vartan, Giannou Marina, Hadjisavva Aristi, Kakoullis Christos, Kania Niki, Papafotiou Alexandra, Pidia Stavri, Paparazzi, Stavrou Katerina, Stoian Christian, Turner Tess, Varela Anna, Varelas Marios

Sculptures: Askoti Markella, Grozos Gregory, Kyprianou Maria, Yiapanis Philippos

Performances:
Live sketching: Michail Samsonadze
Body Art Performance: Pidia Stavri, Efstathiou Marion, Christofidou Eleni, Drousiwti Andria

Art curators: Evdokia Georgiou & Andri Aristotelous
Art Director: Sonia Photiou
Artistic Supervision: Anna Agapiou

The exhibition will be until the 2nd of April.
*For more information: gallery@exhibit8.com.cy / 25212171

Related links:

Dialogos, Φilenews

‘SHE’ Group Art Exhibition | Opening Event

‘SHE’
|Group Art Exhibition

The ‘SHE’ group exhibition is consisted of both female and male artists aiming to illustrate through their artwork the woman’s existence. Artists are invited to give their own interpretation of woman in their own unique style, technique and medium. The exhibition is consisted of paintings and sculptures. The opening speeches at the event will be held by Nadia Anaxagorou the Director of the Cultural Services at Municipality of Limassol and Kikoula Cotsapa the Past President of the board of friends of Cyprus University of Technology.

SHE; female; woman

The female existence was a source of inspirations for artists, authors, poets and musicians throughout history. The prehistoric idols in Cyprus and Greece were the first known representations of the female figure. During classical period, in Greece, sculptors were creating sculptures inspired by female goddess and mythology. Furthermore, in contemporary era, artists are exploring, challenging and developing various concepts concerning the women and their surrounding environment.

Participant artists:

Paintings: Agisilaou Fani, Butovskaya Larisa, Constantis Leonidas, Efesopoulos Andreas, Ghazarian Vartan, Giannou Marina, Hadjisavva Aristi, Kakoullis Christos, Kania Niki, Papafotiou Alexandra, Pidia Stavri, Paparazzi, Stavrou Katerina, Stoian Christian, Turner Tess, Varela Anna, Varelas Marios

Sculptures: Askoti Markella, Grozos Gregory, Kyprianou Maria, Yiapanis Philippos

Art curators: Evdokia Georgiou & Andri Aristotelous
Art Director: Sonia Photiou
Artistic Consultancy: Anna Agapiou

The exhibition will be until the 2nd of April.

Related links: 

Sigmalive, Dialogos, CyprusTimes Show Biz, CyprusTimes LadyTimes, Φilenews, Εφημερίδα Λεμεσός,  Limassol Today, Kathimerini Cyprus

Sneak Peek: A Joint Event Celebrating CARNIVAL

Ο Αντρέας Βρυωνίδης (‘Feather up’) και η Exhibit 8 Γκαλερί οργανώσαν μαζί ένα Pre-Carnival Gathering και γιορτάσαμε μέσα σε μια καρναβαλίστική διάθεση, μουσική και κρασί.
Στην καρδία της Λεμεσού, κοντά στην πλατεία της Σαριπόλου στην Exhibit 8  βρίσκονται και οι μοναδικές δημιουργίες από τη ‘Feather up’ – τα πλέον διάσημα καπέλα με φτερά.
Μαζί μας παρευρέθηκαν και μέλη της Βασιλικής Οικογένειας του Καρναβαλιού.
Οι δημιουργίες του Αντρέα Βρυωνίδη θα βρίσκονται στην γκαλερί μας μέχρι και τις 6 Μαρτίου.

Open Call | ‘Παραμόρφωση’ Ομαδική Έκθεση

Όπου υπάρχει μορφή δύναται να υπάρξει και ΠΑΡΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ, στρέβλωση, αλλοίωση της φυσιογνωμίας της.  Η ΠΑΡΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ενός προσώπου, ενός τοπίου, ενός αντικειμένου αποτελεί μέρος  της  αέναης μεταβλητότητας.  Kάποιες φόρες, ίσως, και ένα κομμάτι της εξελικτικής πορείας.

Τι γίνεται όμως με την ουσία, την ταυτότητα της παραμορφωμένης ύλης; Χάνεται, αλλάζει ή παραμένει σταθερή και αμετάκλητη;

Οι καλλιτέχνες καλούνται, μέσα από τη δική τους οπτική και τα δικά τους ξεχωριστά μέσα, να αποδώσουν  την έννοια της ΠΑΡΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗΣ. Το Open Call απευθύνεται σε καλλιτέχνες που ασχολούνται με εικαστικές τέχνες όπως ζωγραφική, γλυπτική, φωτογραφία, ψηφιακά μέσα, ποίηση.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες 25212171/ gallery@exhibit8.com.cy

Δήλωση αίτησης μέχρι και τις 25 Μαρτίου 2022

Εγκαίνια έκθεσης: 8 Απριλίου 2022

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Open Call for the ‘Deformation’ Exhibition

When there is a form; there is its deformation too. Deformation is part of our everyday, of our existence and our progress. The form or the deformation of a face, of a landscape, of an object are found as a two-dimensional and/or a three-dimensional aspect and shape.
However, what about the substance and the identity of the deformed material?
Artists are welcomed to analyse what deformation is for them through their art. This Open call is open for painting, sculptures, photography, digital art, screen printing, text, poetry.

For more information gallery@exhibit8.com.cy/ 25212171

Submission deadline: 25th of March 2022

Exhibition’s opening: 8th of April 2022

‘Möbius spaces’ | Opening event of the Solo Exhibition by Xristos Panagiotou

Christos Panagiotou is an artist and researcher at the Lab for Animation Research (LAR), at the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology. He is a Ph.D. in Communication. His interests revolve around the notion of space as a Topological entity and how its structure is related to discourse and narratives. He examines the Möbius structure as a topological manifestation of psychological and political discourses and narratives.
About the exhibition:
Modernity is associated with quantification, measurement, structures, and, ultimately, a simulated, linear, and delimited edifice of the temporal and the spatial dimension. Clocks through machinery record time in sequential units of moments: milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, centuries. Space is also divided into linear, delimited, measurable units. Consumerism: machines manufacture units of products that we buy in units with units of value (price) to separate ourselves, to be “unique.” Modernity is a colossal machine ruled by an ordered quantity of units situated in space and time, a numerical plane of existence. No wonder statistics – and Google – is the new God. When we quantify the spatial and temporal dimensions, we restructure them as linear entities; Reality becomes the sum of dissociated temporal and spatial units bound together through a rigid scaffold set by machinery.
Once we delineate space and time, the concept of limits also arises. Limits separate entities and delineate units; limits justify where the Self starts and when it ends when the Other begins and where the Other stops. A linear perception of the Self also occurs in the temporal dimension. Limits separate who I am, who I am not, and whom I want to be in a linear temporal progression. Limits that quantify and justify the notion of property, and limits that demarcate whole nations – boundaries – the Self and the Other, limits of time – timetables, schedules – and Identities about who we are in time and space are formed, because after all, in Modernity, there are clean-cut temporal and spatial limits that separate in units the Self from the Other.
In this photography exhibition, I use the topological properties of the Möbius strip to restructure space within photographs non-linearly, thus subverting the notion of spatial linearity within the photographic image. Möbius strip has no orientation and no limits, no borders. I also refer to the aesthetics of M.C. Escher and Arnold Böcklin.
** The exhibition is based on my research about “space and time in artificial environments,” done in the context of my work as a researcher in the Lab for Animation Research
* The Exhibition will be until the 5th of February.

‘Möbius spaces’ | Solo Exhibition by Xristos Panagiotou

We wish to invite you at the Solo Ehxibition by Xristos Panagiotou at our gallery in the heart of Limassol’s city centre. The Opening event will be on the 20th of January at 19:00.
About the artist:
Christos Panagiotou is an artist and researcher at the Lab for Animation Research (LAR), at the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology. He is a Ph.D. in Communication. His interests revolve around the notion of space as a Topological entity and how its structure is related to discourse and narratives. He examines the Möbius structure as a topological manifestation of psychological and political discourses and narratives.
About the exhibition:
Modernity is associated with quantification, measurement, structures, and, ultimately, a simulated, linear, and delimited edifice of the temporal and the spatial dimension. Clocks through machinery record time in sequential units of moments: milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, centuries. Space is also divided into linear, delimited, measurable units. Consumerism: machines manufacture units of products that we buy in units with units of value (price) to separate ourselves, to be “unique.” Modernity is a colossal machine ruled by an ordered quantity of units situated in space and time, a numerical plane of existence. No wonder statistics – and Google – is the new God. When we quantify the spatial and temporal dimensions, we restructure them as linear entities; Reality becomes the sum of dissociated temporal and spatial units bound together through a rigid scaffold set by machinery.
Once we delineate space and time, the concept of limits also arises. Limits separate entities and delineate units; limits justify where the Self starts and when it ends when the Other begins and where the Other stops. A linear perception of the Self also occurs in the temporal dimension. Limits separate who I am, who I am not, and whom I want to be in a linear temporal progression. Limits that quantify and justify the notion of property, and limits that demarcate whole nations – boundaries – the Self and the Other, limits of time – timetables, schedules – and Identities about who we are in time and space are formed, because after all, in Modernity, there are clean-cut temporal and spatial limits that separate in units the Self from the Other.
In this photography exhibition, I use the topological properties of the Möbius strip to restructure space within photographs non-linearly, thus subverting the notion of spatial linearity within the photographic image. Möbius strip has no orientation and no limits, no borders. I also refer to the aesthetics of M.C. Escher and Arnold Böcklin.
** The exhibition is based on my research about “space and time in artificial environments,” done in the context of my work as a researcher in the Lab for Animation Research

Γκριζόχρωμα | Solo Art Exhibition by Christos Kakoulli

Σας προσκαλούμε στην ατομική έκθεση του Χρίστου Κακουλλή (CRS) που έχει ως θέμα το γκριζόχρωμα μαζί με ένα street art χαρακτήρα και με κύρια τεχνική το Stencil.

Τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης θα πραγματοποιηθούν μέσα σε μια όμορφη ατμόσφαιρα στην γκαλερί μας αυτή την Παρασκευή, 5/11/2021 στο κέντρο της Λεμεσού στις 19:30.

Η έκθεση έχει σας στόχο να αναδείξει πορτρέτα και άλλες γκριζόμορφες φιγούρες μέσα σε ένα αφηρημένα φόντο που καθηλώνει τον θεατή από συναισθήματα μέσα από το έντονο ύφος των χρωμάτων. Κύριο μέλημα της έκθεσης είναι να ελκύσει το θεατή συναισθηματικά αλλά και καλλιτεχνικά με απώτερο σκοπό την ανάμειξη συναισθημάτων αλλά και την ανάδειξη του Street Art ύφους μέσω της έκθεσης.

Επιμελήτρια έκθεσης: Ευδοκία Γεωργίου
Υπεύθυνη Δημιουργικής Ομάδας: Σόνια Φωτίου

‘Conversations’ | Open Call for Artists

We are looking for you!!
We want to exhibit what you want to say through your Art!!

‘Conversations’ Exhibition: A picture worth a thousand words.

Thousand words, emotions, thoughts, feelings; all expressed by the artist through their Art. We wish to invite artists to exhibit artworks of all mediums at our gallery to have a voice about their examined topic. Aiming on raising various conversations between artists, artworks and audience to encourage the development of concepts, ideas, thoughts and emotions.
Any medium of art: sculpture, painting, digital art, screen printing, photography, installation, drawing
Art curator: Evdokia Georgiou
Art director: Sonia Photiou
Submission deadline: 27th Oct.
*There is participation fee

‘Say Hello’ | Open Call for Artists

We are happy to announce an upcoming open themed exhibition for artists to introduce themselves and their Art!
A distinctive Open Call to meet each other.
Exhibit in the heart of Limassol’s city Centre, near Saripolou square, the artwork that best describes your ideas and art practice.

There are no restrictions on what artists wish to submit.

All mediums, forms, surfaces and concepts are welcomed.

/ Submission deadline: 11th Aug. at gallery@exhibit8.com.cy / 25212171

Art curator: Evdokia Georgiou

Art director: Sonia Photiou

*A digital catalogue will be available for artists after the exhibition.

Monogramma Vlll | Solo Exhibition by Rebecca Savvidou Trimikliniotou

[..ακολουθεί Ελληνικό κείμενο..]
We are pleased to have the Solo Exhibition of Rebecca Savvidou Trimikliniotou at our gallery at Saripolou Square! The ‘Monogramma VIII’ Exhibition is Rebecca’s 8th Solo Exhibition in Cyprus and she has also participated in various group exhibitions in the island.
She is a Musician and a Painter. Rebecca is a Limassol resident and she has studied Music at Lyon of France. She participated in various concerts and operas both in Cyprus and Europe such as in Poland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Italy and Netherlands. Her artwork is colourful and at some parts abstract.
/ The exhibition will be on until the 16th of July.
Artist’s statement
Time is continually running and there is a continuous exploration of inside and outside of oneself, which has no alignments. Consistency and hard work. The light comes as a liberation, to reduce the wild anxiety, as well as the sound that calms down the souls. The energy of the colours unfolds like a secret garden that hides one more and different dimension of things and beings.
*Art Gallery’s opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 22:00
Sunday & Monday: closed
Ελληνικό κείμενο:
Είμαστε στην ευχάριστη θέση να φιλοξενούμε την ατομική έκθεση της Ρεβέκκας Σαββίδου Τριμικλινιώτου στη γκαλερί μας στην πλατεία Σαριπόλου! Είναι η 8η Ατομική Έκθεση της Ρεβέκκας στην Κύπρο και έχει επίσης συμμετάσχει σε διάφορες ομαδικές εκθέσεις στο νησί.
Είναι μουσικός και εικαστικός. Η Ρεβέκκα είναι κάτοικος της Λεμεσού και έχει σπουδάσει Μουσική στην πόλη της Λυών στην Γαλλία. Συμμετείχε σε διάφορες συναυλίες και όπερες τόσο στην Κύπρο όσο και σε χώρες της Ευρώπη, όπως στην Πολωνία, τη Γαλλία, το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, την Ελλάδα, την Ιταλία και την Ολλανδία. Η Τέχνη της εμπεριέχει ζωντανές, χρωματιστές είκονες με στοιχεία αφερετικά.
/ Η έκθεση θα διαρκέσει έως τις 16 Ιουλίου.
Το συνεχές του χρόνου μακρύ και η συνεχής αναζήτηση εντός και εκτός χωρίς ευθυγραμμίσεις. Με συνέπεια και μόχθο. Το φως έρχεται λυτρωτικό, να διαλευκάνει την ατίθαση ανησυχία όπως και ο ήχος που ημερεύει τις ψυχές. Η ενέργεια των χρωμάτων ξετυλίγεται σαν μυστικός κήπος που κρύβει την άλλη διάσταση των πραγμάτων.
* Ώρες λειτουργίας της Γκαλερί:
Τρίτη έως Σάββατο: 10:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 22:00
Κυριακή & Δευτέρα: κλειστή