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1st Symposium, Polis Chrysochou

Abeer Warda Andreas Tamamounas

Antoine Basbous Constantinos Moditis

Fanis Rachoutis Giorgos Rachoutis

Janine Kortz-Waintrop n
Janine Kortz-Waintrop

Liliya Pobornikova Xavier Gonzalez

1st Symposium
September 15-30, 2008

Category: Modern sculpture, Symposia

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The symposium was organized by the Polis Chrysochou Municipality and The Friends of Fine Arts, and was funded by the Municipality, the “Friends” and the Ministry of Education. Seven professional sculptors participated after submitting their proposal to the organizing committee. Additionally two locals, self-taught, were invited by the Municipality. 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: Abeer Warda from Syria, Antoine Basbous from Lebanon, Janine Kortz-Waintrop from Germany, Liliya Pobornikova from Bulgaria, Xavier Gonzalez from France, Constantinos Moditis and Andreas Tamamounas from Cyprus, Giorgos Rachoutis and Fanis Rachoutis from Greece.

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Nicosia Symposium

Genti Tavanxhiu Beata Rostas

Christos Lianitis George Moisi

Petre Petrovn

Xavier Gonzales Petre Petrov

Beatriz Carbonell Ferrer Arne Maeland

Sculpture Symposium in Nicosia

4-16 April 2011

The symposium was organised by The Friends of Fine Arts and Nicosia Municipality, and was funded by the Ministry of Education. Ten sculptors participated from all over Europe:

Agnessa Petrova and Petre Petrov from Bulgaria, Arlindo Arez from Portugal, Arne Maeland from Norway, Beatriz Carbonell from Spain, Beata Rostas from Hungary, Genti Tavanxhiu from Albania, Xavier Gonzalez from France and George Moisi and Christos Lanitis from Cyprus. The sculptors participated after submitting their proposal to the organizing committee. All of them worked with a piece of at least 2 cubic meters local Cypriot stone. All the works are titled as “Untitled”.

After the conclusion of the symposium most of the artworks were located in various parts of Nicosia city. Nicosia Municipality plans the construction of a sculpture park, possibly in part of the ditch outside the Venetian walls of the old city.

Artist & location in the city:

Arne Maeland: Crossroads Kennedy and Archbishop Makarios III Avenues.Nicosia

Beata Rostas: Archbishop Makarios III Avenue, opposite Hilton hotel, Nicosia

Beatriz Carbonell Ferrer: 34 Demostheni Severi Avenue, in front of the Embassy of France building, Nicosia

Genti Tavanxhiu: Archbishop Makarios III Avenue, Kaimakli area, Nicosia

Petre Petrov: Presidential Palace Avenue, Nicosia

Xavier Gonzalez: Agiou Andrea Avenue, in front of Evaggelistria Church, Palouriotissa area, Nicosia

Christos Lanitis: Crossroads Nikis and Griva Digeni Avenues, Nicosia

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2nd Symposium, Kato Polemidia

Agnessa Petrova Ali Al Mahmeed

Andrei V. Balashov Arlindo Arez

Christos Lanitis Miguel Isla

Petre Petrov Xavier Gonzalez

2^nd 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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