SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT THE AIRPORT CYPRUS

The A.F.F.A. Association of Friends of Fine Arts and Α.Ι.Ε.S.M International Association for Monumental Sculpture Events organized a sculpting exhibition with works of artists from different European countries. The exhibition will take place at the premises of the Larnaca International Airport Hermes Airports for six months, from the 1st of July 2012 to the 19th of December 2012 along with the occasion of the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union.
The exhibition named ‘Europe meets the Mediterranean’ constitutes a visual representation of an encounter with the cultures of different European countries in the cyprus’island, which has always acted as a bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa, and bears timeless and successive traces of many civilisations. In this exhibition, which will be hosted by the Larnaca International Airport Hermes Airports, the goal is that the hundreds of thousands of visitors and travellers to the island associate Cyprus geographically, locally, historically and culturally with Europe, and see, through these visual imprints, the diversity, differences, but also relations and similarities between different European cultures, which are quintessential elements in the formation of European civilisation.
The sculptures were created over a time span of two months, from April to May, during the two sculpting symposia that took place at the Ayia Varvara sculpting park of the A.F.F.A.
At a rural area roughly at the centre of Cyprus, sculptors from eleven European countries met, exchanged experiences, ideas and opinions, and they created sixteen marble sculptures, which will be situated at the airport premises, granting the opportunity to the European leaders, the Member-State delegations, and the thousands of visitors and tourists, that will come during the six-month Cyprus Presidency, to wander around the area and come into contact with the art works.
Here following the list of exhibiting sculptors:
Antonis Myrodias – Greece, Arlindo Arez – Portugal, Florin Strejac – Romania, Genti Tavanxhiu – Italy, Gilles Appert – France, Jo Kley – Germany, Jaroslava Fabrici – Slovakia, Jan Sicko – Slovakia, Petre Petrov – Bulgaria, Xavier Gonzalez – Spain, Christos Lanitis – Cyprus.