New art adorns negotiating rooms’ walls

THE NEXT instalment of art work by an all-female cast of Cypriot artists will be unveiled at the site of the peace talks next Monday by the UN’s special envoy, Alexander Downer, who will present a series of paintings, prints, handmade paper, collages, mixed media and installations.  

The works on display are the creation of Katerina Attalidou, Inci Kansu, Stella Angelidou, Ismet Tatar, Tatiana Ferahian and Vicky Pericleous who have offered pieces illustrating different aspects of the Cyprus problem and of the country’s history and identity. They are the second group of artists to contribute to the rolling exhibition, which kicked off on June 1.

“The pieces being exhibited, some for the first time, clearly centre on painful issues of Cyprus,” said Argyro Toumazou, one of the show’s organisers.  ”Those issues include the traumatic loss of land, property and deeds; the natural beauty of the island, which defies polemics, and the role copper has played in its history. There is also the unbearable uncertainty of a divided Nicosia, the clash of identities and historical interpretations,” she added.

Toumazou said the exhibition was characterised by earth colours, a sensitive approach on the part of the artists and a variety of original techniques.

n Artists interested in contributing to the exhibitions are invited to contact organisers Argyro Toumazou and Ozgul Ezgin at: [email protected] (99-317278) and [email protected] (+90-5338640418).

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