Exhibition of Paintings – Sculpture – Photography
by Marina Olympiou Lycourgou

Kypriaki Gonia Gallery
from 1st February to 20th February 2006.


Comments by Dr. Tonia Loizou Art Historian: “Marina Olympios Lycourgos is a multi-talented artist and a multi-aspect creator. She is not only a researcher in art, but also a tireless researcher of nature, ancient civilizations and history. In her artistic process she has produced a series of substantial works that consist mainly of sculptures, actions and performances, using multimedia, using different objects and photography projections. Creating the Living Art, Art of the Road. Works of research that provide new expressions and experiences, possibilities with strictly personal formulations. Each one of her projects is limitless and original and of the same time self existent and universal. Her latest work consists of two dimensional works and sculptures and is the continuation of her previous works. Main characteristics are the tendency for research, the freedom of expression and the protest which all together now gain a new dimension and coexist in her work and focus on her psychological world. Emotion dominates in all attempts and the successive conflicts are represented in the multi-leveled paintings with vivid and dynamic brush touches that express herself and each other observer. Her personal story is behind each attempt. And if everything seams to be as made by chance or appearing in a random way, this is only the first impression. Beyond that the truth and real questioning dominate. Nature consists in all ways in an endless inspiration source for the artist (photographs). It is the link between Truth – Existence – Man. Contact and communication and the timeless journey of plants, i.e. the pollen grain, passionate the artist who picks up and understands the messages of the living wor.d and continues to travel”.

The artist comments: Five different stones are five different ways of thinking and understanding. In life and art two things are important: remembering and awaiting. Have something to remember and have something to wait for.

Marina Olympios Lycourgos was barn in 1968 in Nicosia. She studied in Paris where she graduated in Gemology from the Institut National de Gemologie de Paris. She then graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux – Arts of Paris with a diploma in sculpture – multi media (avec les facilations du July). In 1994 she received a grant for research and worked at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris.

In 1995 she received the price for Research in Visual Arts of the French Ministry of Culture FIACRE. In 199 she worked for one year in the International Studio Curator Programme in New York financed by the A.F.A.A. French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She presented solo exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary. Art CAPC in Bordeaux, in the Museum of Modern Art Geo – Charles, Echirolles, in the gallery Lehmann & Maupiin in New York, in the gallery Renos Xippes in Paris, in the gallery OZ in Paris, in the gallery Pierre Nouvion in Monaca, in the Ileana Tourta gallery in Athens, and in the Center of Copntemporary Art Passages in Troyes.

Works of Art of Marina Olympios Lycourgos belong to the following collections: Museum Geo Charles, the French State, the Dakis Joannou Collection Athens, the Daskalopoulos Collection Los Angeles, Pierre Nouvion Monaco, and Marzio Carver Monaco.

Main artistic projects: “Art is Justice”, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, “I’m interested in real fiction”, “Europa a Story of Art”, “The Blue Pigs”, “Minerals of Cyprus”, “Human works” that consist of videos and photography from Bolivia, Peru, Cuba, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand.

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