Fragile beauty

2011-05-14

A Greek Cypriot glass artist is smashing the boundaries of his chosen field. NAOMI LEACH talks to him about his upcoming joint exhibition, Transparency, to be held in Istanbul

 

You’d be forgiven for thinking being born on October 28 to a Famagusta family later rendered refugees and then putting together an exhibition with a Turkish artist in Istanbul might make you politically alert but Cypriot glass artist Yorgos Papadopoulos insists that neither he nor his work is politically charged.

Yorgos is forward thinker and an artist firstly, he does not wish his upcoming Turkish exhibition to be about difference, instead he revels in the idea of fraternity and the universal appeal of art.

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.