Tag Archives: Yiapanis Philippos (Γιαπάνης Φίλιππος)

Olympic Hall Sculptures

Citius, Altius, Fortiusn Alliance Citius, Altius, Fortius

Blue Paralympics Boxer

Collective Dream Free as the Wind

Japanese Girl with ribbonn Japanese Girl With Ribbon

Olympic Spirit Stainless Dreams

Synchronized Swimming Without an end

Afanis Armonie

General view of Olympic Hall Sculptures

Olympic Hall Sculptures

Olympic premises, Amphipolis Avenue, Strovolos. Nicosia district

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the artworks was taken in 2006 by the Cyprus Olympic Committee.

Today, twelve artworks made by eleven Cypriot or Cypriot based artists are placed on the ground floor of the Cyprus Olympic premises. All of them refer to the Olympic spirit. In addition to the Cyprus Olympic Committee, each artwork was sponsored by a private entity.

In front of the Olympic premises is placed Philippos Yiapanis’ Olympic Spirit. The unveiling took place on June 10^th 2010. This artwork is the only one commissioned entirely by the Cypriot Olympic Committee.

Title: Alliance

Artist: Theodoulos Gregoriou

Sponsor: Associations of ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59 fighters

Title: Synchronized Swimming

Artist: Klitsa Antoniou

Sponsor: Nikolas K. Shacolas

Title: Free as the Wind

Artist: Maria Papacharalambous

Sponsor: Aristo Developers

Title: Japanese Girl with Ribbon

Artist: Athina Antoniadou

Sponsor: Louis Group

Title: Blue Paralympics

Artist: Lia Lapithi Soukiouroglou

Sponsor: Amberia Global Ventures Ltd

Title: Stainless Dreams

Artist: Helene Black

Material: Stainless steel

Sponsor: Strovolos Cooperative Bank

Title: Citius, Altius, Fortius

Artist: Helene Black

Material: Stainless steel, laminated glass, solar beads, UV fluorescent light

Dimensions: 195 cm x 115 cm x 35cm

Sponsor: Stelios and Chrysi Aggelodimou family

Citius, Altius, Fortius was the ancient Olympic games’ motto for all the athletes. It means Quicker, Higher and Stronger, and underlines the value of personal achievements and completion.

Title: Afanis Armonie (Αφανής Αρμονίη)

Artist: Nikos Kouroussis

Sponsor: Laiki Group

The title “Hidden Harmony” (Αφανής Αρμονίη) makes part of Heraclitus’ sayings. Kouroussis artwork attempts to highlight the importance of that ancient Greek value in everyday life.

Title: Boxer

Artist: Giorgos Kypris

Sponsor: Laiki Group

Mohamed Ali was the inspiring model for Giorgos Kypris’ work who attempts to capture the athlete’s rhythm through the repetition of the form.

Title: Collective Dream

Artist: Melita Couta

Sponsor: Phanos N. Epiphaniou Ltd

Melita Kouta’s work comments the power of the social body to encourage the athletes’ efforts.

Title: Without an end

Artist: Achilleas Kentonis

Sponsor: Hellenic Petroleum Cyprus (EKO) Ltd

Kentonis comments the athletic arena as the meeting point of humans’ best intentions and efforts.

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Memorial to the Cyprus Workers Confederation

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Cypriot Workers Confederation (SEK) premises, Strovolos Avenue. Nicosia district

Category: Workers’ movement

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The monument was commissioned by the Cypriot Workers Confederation (SEK). The unveiling took place on January 25^th 2003.

Although the monument claims to celebrate a workers’ victory, the broken chain and the torch between the two figures bears direct implications to the national victories. Whatever the celebration is, the overflowing sentiment here is illustrated through the intense diagonal lines of the male and the female bodies, the stretching of her limbs and the playful mood of the child. In contrast to the norm, this woman is the only one depicted in public sculpture in Cyprus, along with Eleni Siakola, to wear ordinary modern clothes and thus appears part of a contemporary community.

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Stylianos Lenas (Στυλιανός Λένας) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: “Lenas” nationalist union premises, Limassol. Limassol district

Dimensions: 91 cm x 61 cm x 61 cm

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The bust was commissioned by the “Lenas” nationalist union. The unveiling took place on October 6^th 2004.

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Limassol My Love “Loulis”

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: 28^th October Avenue, Limassol. Limassol district

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The artwork was made and placed in 2009.

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Memorial to the Geri EOKA 1955-59 fighters

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: EOKA 1955-59 Museum, Geri. Nicosia district

Dimensions: 170 cm x 61~70 cm x 61~70 cm

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The museum is dedicated to the Geri EOKA 1955-59 fighters Kyriakos Kolokasis (Κυριάκος Κολοκάσης), Ionas Nikolaou (Ιωνάς Νικολάου) and Kyriakos Kakoulli (Κυριάκος Κακουλής), and bears their names. Their busts are situated outside the museum in a small niche of the yard.

The initiative and the fundraising were undertaken by “Dikefalos” union of Geri, and the Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle (SIMAE). The unveiling took place on August 31^st of 2006.

Selected sources:
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.99.Γ., documents July 13, 2004; April 19, 2007; May 7, 2007; August 11, 2008.
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.2008.9, document January 11, 2008.

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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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Untitled

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Fasoula Community Board offices. Limassol district

Material: Marble

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The work was commissioned by the Fasoula community board and it was placed in 2010.

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Untitled

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Fasoula. Limassol district

Dimensions: 109 cm x 54 cm x 54 cm (the pedestal)

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The artwork was commissioned by the Fasoula community board and it was placed in 2010. An identical work of Yiapanis is located on Nissi Avenue, at Agia Napa, Ammochostos district.

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Mermaid

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Fasoula. Limassol district

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The artwork was commissioned by the Fasoula community board and it was placed in 2010.

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Untitled

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Fasoula. Limassol district

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The artwork was donated by Philippos Yiapanis to the Fasoula community. It was placed in 2010.

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Dimitris Klitou (Δημήτρης Κλείτου) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Saint George church, Sylikou. Limassol district

Dimensions: 125 cm (+54 cm pedestal) x 53 cm x 52 cm

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

No information is available.

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Georgios Mich. Drakos (Γεώργιος Μιχ. Δράκος) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Pentakomo. Limassol district

Dimensions: 150 cm x 70 cm x 54 cm

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

No further information is available.

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Memorial to the Pachna Heroes

Evmenios Markantonis Iordanis Iordanous Vakis

Nikos Sofokleous Panikos Symeou

Artist: Unknown

Location: Pachna community square. Limassol district

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59, Turkish Invasion, Inter-communal conflicts 1967

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The archaic stele with the pediment crowning constitutes the central part of the memorial dedicated to all the Pachna dead fighters. On an inserted plaque Konstantinos Kavafis’ verses are noted: “Honor those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae” (Τιμή σ’ εκείνους όπου στην ζωή των ώρισαν και φυλάγουν Θερμοπύλες).

Its unveiling took place in July 1990. Since then four busts were added commemorating four Pachna individual fighters.

The busts of Evmenios Markantonis (Ευμένιος Μαρκαντώνης), who died during the inter-communal conflicts of 1967, and of Panikos Symeou (Πανίκος Συμεού), who died during the EOKA struggle, were unveiled at the same time with the stele.

The bust of Nikos Sofokleous (Νίκος Σοφοκλέους), who died during the EOKA struggle, was made by Philippos Yapanis and was unveiled on October 15, 2006.

The bust of Iordanis Iordanous Vakis (Ιορδάνης Ιορδάνους Βάκης), who died during the Turkish invasion, was also made by Philippos Yiapanis and was unveiled on October 11^th 2009.

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Andreas Onisiforou (Ανδρέας Ονησιφόρου) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Kolossi, Apostolos Loukas parish. Limassol district

Material: Copper

Dimensions: 130 cm x 67 cm x 47 cm

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the memorial was taken by the “Andreas & Nikos” nationalist union of Kolossi. The bust was commissioned by the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle (ΣΙΜΑΕ/SIMAE). The unveiling took place on April 28^th 2002.

The bust is located next to the Sokratis Neophytou Sokratous bust which was unveiled a year earlier.

Selected sources:
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/19, document march 20, 1999; Meeting Minutes April 29, 1999.

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Panayiotis Toumazos (Παναγιώτης Τουμάζος) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis & Phylactis Ierides

Location: “Panayiotis Toumazos” union premises, Episkopi. Limassol district

Dimensions: 135 cm x 104 cm

Category: EOKA 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the bust was taken by the “Panayiotis Toumazos” union. It was placed in 1997.

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Dimitris Petrou Apesiotis (Δημήτρης Πέτρου Απαισιώτης) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Next to the Apsiou Cooperative Bank, Apsiou. Limassol district

Dimensions: 151 cm x 67 cm x 67 cm

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the memorial was taken by the Apsiou community. The unveiling took place on July 8^th 2008.

Selected sources:
~ Αρχείο Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής Μνημείων Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (Advisory Monuments’ Committee) 14.3.01/9, Meeting Minutes April 5, 2005.

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Michail Koukkis (Μιχαήλ Κουκκής) and Andreas Dimitriou (Ανδρέας Δημητρίου) busts

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Saint Mamas church, Agios Mamas. Limassol district

Dimensions: 152 cm x 47 cm x 47 cm

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The memorial was commissioned by The Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 Struggle (ΣΙΜΑΕ/SIMAE). It was made in 1999 and the unveiling took place on May 14^th 2000.

Selected sources:
~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), May 13, 2000, p. 24.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/16, Meeting Minutes March 5, 1998.

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Leontios Gerasimou (Λεόντιος Γερασίμου) and Apostolos Kouris (Απόστολος Κουρής) busts

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Agia Irini church yard, Perivolia village. Larnaka district.

Dimensions: 137 cm (+ 47 cm the step) x 49~59 cm x 47~58 cm

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The busts were commissioned by Perivolia Community committee in 2006.

Selected sources:
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/16, Meeting Minutes February 26, 1998.
~ Αρχείο Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής Μνημείων Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (Advisory Monuments’ Committee) 14.3.01/10, document October 27, 2005.

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Memorial to the Pano Arodes EOKA 1955-59 dead

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Agios Kalandionas church yard. Pafos district.

Dimensions: 151 cm x 53 cm x 53 cm

Category: EOKA 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The memorial was commissioned by SIMAE (Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle). It is dedicated to Iakovos Christodoulidis (Ιάκωβος Χριστοδουλίδης), Charalambos Filippidis (Χαράλαμπος Φιλιππίδη), Georgios Papaveikou (Γεώργιος Παπαβερκίου) and Dimitris Georgiou Touttoulou (Δημήτρης Γεωργίου Τουττούλου).

The busts were delivered by the sculptor in 2007 and the unveiling of the monument took place in December 2009.

Selected sources:
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.2008.9, Meeting Minutes May 13, 2008.
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.2009.10, Meeting Minutes May 7, 2009.
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.2009.11, document May 12, 2009.

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Yiannakis Giovanis (Γιαννάκης Τζιοβάνης) bust

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: On the road from Vrisoules to Frenaros village. Ammochostos district.

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The bust was commissioned in 2010 by the Paralimni Community committee.

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Memorial to the EOKA 1955-59 heroes

Artists: Christos Symeonidis Chrisimos, Phylactis Ierides,

Philippos Yiapanis

Location: On the Avgorou-Lioperiou road. Ammochostos district.

Dimensions: The memorial occupies an area of 14,500 m.sq.

Category: EOKA 1955-59

Photography: Vicky Karaiskou

The wish to honour the Avgorou dead fighters goes back to 1962 when the first actions to gather the necessary funds took place. More than twenty years afterwards, in March 1985, the EOKA 1955-59 Avgorou members’ decision to construct a memorial materialized.

The intention of the initiative was to remind the origins, symbolize the main principles of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle, and commemorate Modestos Panteli, the first EOKA fighter who died on April 1^st 1955.

For that reason the area where the memorial is situated today was symbolically chosen, being the exact place of his death. The memorial honors the memory of all Avgorou and the nearby Liopetri village EOKA’s dead fighters and aspired to be the reference point for the whole of Cyprus during the annual commemorations on April 1st.

The funding of this extensive project was secured mainly by the EOKA 1955-59 members, and the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 Struggle (SIMAE). Other state and private entities also made contributions.

A procession path flanked with a row of cypress trees links the ancient Greek Corinthian style entrance with the Mycenaean-like tomb. The path opens up to an ancient Greek theater construction. The distance between the theater’s semicircular auditorium and the tomb is flanked with dark stone panels where the names of the dead appear.

Inside the tomb, 26 portraits in relief were made by the three sculptors. Because of the limited budget, black and white photographs of the deceased substituted part of the total of 108 portraits initially planned to cover the walls.

Following the ancient Greek tradition, where theaters were adjacent to temples and in particular to Dionysus temple in order to underline the origins and the higher purpose of the theater culture, at Avgorou village, the nearby chapel was erected to remind the close relation between religion and motherland in modern Cyprus.

The unveiling of the monument took place on October 18^th 2002.

Selected sources:
~ Σημερινή (Simerini), March 13, 1985, p. 3.
~ Ελευθερία (Eleftheria), December 16, 1962, p. 8.
~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), October 18, 2002, p. 20.
~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), October 20, 2002, p. 32.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/2.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/12, Meetings Minutes, September 13, 1994; November 10, 1994.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/18, document December 2, 1998.
~ Ιστορικό Αρχείο ΣΙΜΑΕ (Historical Archive of the Board for the Historical Memory of the EOKA 1955-59 struggle), 17.2009.10, Meeting Minutes April 26, 2002.

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Untitled

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Ammochostos Cultural Center, Deryneia. Ammochostos district.

Material: Brass

Category: Turkish Invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The artwork was offered to Deryneia Municipality by the sculptor himself. According to the dedicatory plaque situated in front of the artwork: “It was executed and offered from the sculptor Phillipos Yiapanis as a commemoration to his father and to all those who he loved and those who did not manage to reach their Ithaca”. The unveiling of the monument took place in 2004.

On the aforementioned plaque, Deryneia Municipality authorities noted:

“We will stand on this land where we were born, like windswept trees; like trees wiped by thunderstorms cherishing the fruit in gestation. We will stand on this land where we were born, keeping alive the memory of our ancestors; with love for our descendants; and a blissful serenity inside us.Dedicated to all those who lost their lives during the whirlwind of evil, either because they were killed, or because they are missing. Or because they did not make it in time”.

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Freedom message to the world

Artist: Philippos Yiapanis

Location: Cavo Greco, Agia Napa. Ammochostos district.

Material: Brass and stainless steel

Dimensions: Approximate height: 3.60 meters

Category: Modern sculpture

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

On September 8^th 1999, Phillipos Yiapanis submitted to the Agia Napa Municipality authorities his thoughts with regard to the sculpture he had already proposed. Part of the project description is phrased as follows:

“The birds will be facing east, welcoming the new millennium. They are arranged in an ascending form, symbolizing the sun’s path. This rising line could also symbolize Agia Napa’s growth. The sphere is an allegory of earth […]. The lamina symbolizes the wave (the sea) and the birds, coming from the sea, are sitting on the waves”.

On the dedicatory plaque, on the basis of the artwork, Yiapanis notes: “From Cyprus, to the World. From Earth, to Eternity. Message of Peace, Friendship, Freedom. Belief to God and to Man. 1/1/2000 A.C.”.

Selected sources:
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/19, documents September 8, 1999; September 14, 1999.

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