Artist: Lia Lapithi
Location: Agios Spyridionas high school, Kato Polemidia. Limassol district.
Category: Modern sculpture
Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou
The artwork was placed at the entrance of the high school on October 16, 2006. It was commissioned following a 1992 state law which requires all state entities should invest 1% of their annual budget in artworks which will be placed in their premises.
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Agnessa Petrova Ali Al Mahmeed
Andrei V. Balashov Arlindo Arez
Christos Lanitis Miguel Isla
Petre Petrov Xavier Gonzalez
2nd Symposium
October 10-25, 2009
The second symposium at Kato Polemidia was organized by The Friends of Fine Arts and the Kato Polemidia Municipality. It was funded by the Ministry of Education, the Kato Polemidia Municipality and The Friends of Fine Arts. Ten professional sculptors participated after submitting their proposals to the organizing committee. All of them worked with a piece of at least 2 cubic meters local stone. All the works are titled as “Untitled”.
The participant sculptors were: Agnessa Petrova from Bulgaria, Ali Al Mahmeed from Bahrain, Andrei V. Balashov from Russia, Arlindo Arez from Portugal, Miguel Isla from Spain, Daniel Jones from England, Obai Hattoum from Syria, Xavier Gonzalez from France, Petre Petrov from Bulgaria, Christos Lanitis from Cyprus.
After the conclusion of the symposium the works by Miguel Isla and Christos Lanitis were placed at Kale Vounari location, with the sculptures from the first symposium. The sculptures by Agnessa Petrova, Ali Al Mahmeed, Andrei V. Balashov, Arlindo Arez, Xavier Gonzalez and Petre Petrov (who participated in both symposiums) are placed at a road junction on Pafou Avenue, in the Kato Polemidia town.
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Antonis Myrodias Colin Figue
Canan Sonmezdag Elio Liiv
Emil Adamec George Moisi
Petre Petrov Sergey Lopukhov
Simona De Lorenzo Stefania Palumbo
1st Symposium
October 6-18, 2008
The first symposium at Kato Polemidia was organized by the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts and Christos Lanitis, who represents the International Association for Monumental Sculpture Events (AIESM). It was funded by the Ministry of Education, the Kato Polemidia Municipality and The Friends of Fine Arts. Ten professional sculptors participated after submitting their proposals to the organizing committee. All of them worked with a piece of at least 2 cubic meters local stone. All the works are titled as “Untitled”.
The participant sculptors were: Colin Figue from England, Emil Adamec from Czech, Sergey Lopukhov from Russia, Elio Liiv from Estonia, Canan Sonmezdag from Turkey, Stefania Palumbo from Italy, Antonis Myrodias from Greece, Simona De Lorenzo from Italy, Petre Petrov from Bulgaria, George Moisi from Cyprus.
After the conclusion of the symposium all the artworks were placed at Kale Vounari location, a hill slope outside Kato Polemidia town. The area is arranged as a public park.
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