A tribute to a pioneering artist

The Leventis Art Gallery continues to pay tribute to one of the pioneering artists of the first generation of Modern Cypriot Art in the exhibition Solomos Frangoulidis: The Artist – The Art Critic until September 4 in the Claude Monet Hall.

The exhibition showcases a number of Frangoulidis’ art reviews, which he wrote for local newspapers, along with a number of his artistic works. In this way the gallery wishes to present the art scene as a whole during the 30s.

Frangoulidis was born in Pano Zodia in 1902 and studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens from 1924 to 1930. He returned to Cyprus for two years and in 1934 went back to Athens, where he worked as a designer. From 1947 until his death in 1981, the artist returned to his homeland and worked on a Byzantine-Italian type of icon-painting, and painted portable icons for various churches on the island.

He had a number of solo exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus and Britain. He also participated in many group exhibitions, including one for the Commonwealth Institute under the name Exhibition of Cypriot Art in 1970.

Solomos Frangoulides: The Artist – The Art Critic
Temporary exhibition with works by Cypriot artist Solomos Frangoulides. Until September 4. A.G. Leventis Gallery, 5, A.G. Leventis Street, Nicosia. Daily except Tuesday: 10am-5pm, Wednesday: 10am-10pm. Tel: 22-668838

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.