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133 Georhe KYRIACOU EUROPA AND THE BULL culpture
133 Georhe KYRIACOU EUROPA AND THE BULL culpture 133.1 George KYRIACOU EUROPA AND THE BULL
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133
George KYRIACOU
Cypriot, b.1940

Europa and the bull
bronze, brown patina

2000
signed and numbered on the base
38 x 31 x 14 cm


Provenance

collection of the artist, Cyprus




sold for € 4 249.70


George Kyriacou was an elementary school teacher for two years before going on to study sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in London from 1961 to 1964. From the time he graduated until 1969 he worked as a secondary school art teacher. In 1969 he was appointed head of the arts sector of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education. Later, in 1972, he moved to Paris to study museology at La Sorbonne on a scholarship from The French government. He then studied at the Central London Polytechnic (1976-1977), where he obtained a Diploma in Arts and Leisure Administration.

Kyriacou held his first solo exhibition at the Hilton Hotel, Nicosia in 1969.
Since 1964 he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad. Notably, the 1967 Paris Biennale des Jeunes, the1968 Venice Biennale, the 1968 Alexandria Biennale, Ora Gallery, Athens in 1970, Athenaeum Gallery, Madrid in 1971, Gallery K, London from 1991 to1999 and The London Contemporary art Fair in 1993 and 1995.

Since 1965 he has received many important commissions for public monuments in Cyprus. Among them: the M. Parides monument, Larnaca, 1966, the M. Savva monument, Akaki, 1967, the V. Michaeledes monument, Lefkoniko, 1968 and the Monument to the Unknown Policeman, 1970.

He was also a pioneer in placing art on buildings such as a coloured relief for the new Lyceum building in Larnaca, 1969 and a bronze relief for the Yiorkion building complex in Nicosia, 1996. In 1972, he won the Panhellenic competition for the monument to EOKA hero Gregoris P. Afxentiou at Makheras. The monument was completed and unveiled on the 40th anniversary of the hero’s death in 1997.

His works can be found in numerous public and private collections in Greece and abroad, notably The State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art and The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Centre Foundation.

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Illustrated London News 134 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - Jul - Dec 1878 Volume 73 132 DIKEFALOS - Archaic Dikefalos sculpture Archaic
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