Tag Archives: Mesa Geitonia Municipality (Δήμος Μέσα Γειτονιάς)

Archbishop Makarios III (Αρχιεπίσκοπος Μακάριος Γ’) bust

Artist: Andreas Savvides

Location: Archbishop Makarios III Avenue, in front of Saint Prodromos church, Mesa Geitonia. Limassol district

Material: Marble

Dimensions: 185 cm x 57 cm x 60 cm

Category: Cypriot Church, Public Figures, ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the bust was taken by the Mesa Geitonia national-popular association which coordinated the fundraising. It was placed in 1979.

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~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), October 21, p. 12.

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Understanding, Solidarity and Fellowship

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Archbishop Makarios III and Grigoris Afxentiou Avenues, Mesa Geitonia. Limassol district

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The artwork was commissioned by the Limassol-Amathounta Lions Club.

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Twinning

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Triandrias (Triumvirate) square, Mesa Geitonia. Limassol district

Category: Modern sculpture, International relations

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The work was commissioned by the Mesa Geitonia Municipality on the occasion of its twining with Triandrias (Triumvirate) Municipality of Thessaloniki, Greece. The unveiling took place on April 10^th 2009.

Yiapanis’ characteristic fluid shapes are applied here in the forms of two birds. Their naturalistic features gave way to two abstractive forms which underline sameness through the repetition, and preserve the artist’s familiar upwards motion of his artworks.

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Liberty Monument – Memorial to Grigoris Afxentiou (Γρηγόρης Αυξεντίου)

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Archbishop Makarios III Avenue, Mesa Geitonia, Limassol district

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The memorial to Grigoris Afxentiou was commissioned by the Mesa Geitonia Cooperative Bank.

This is the second work of Philipos Yiapanis where the concept of liberty/freedom is symbolized by birds. The first one is the “Freedom message to the world” at Agia Napa, Ammochostos district.

Here the concept is focused on the EOKA fighter Grigoris Afxentiou, the “Golden Eagle of Machairas”, as is evident by the open book where his presumed last words to his co-fighters are noted on the left page, while on the right, the flames insinuate the way he died.

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