Maria Loizidou
Cropping Up
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7 October – 6 December 2014
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Kalfayan Galleries (11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki, Athens) present the solo show of the artist Maria Loizidou titled “Cropping Up”. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 20.00 – 22.00.
Maria Loizidou, who was among the finalists of the 2014 Curate Award of the Fondazione Prada and the Qatar Museum Authorities, visits Athens once again with a daring project that perceives the socio-geographical space of the gallery as a challenge to create a subversive order of things.
In expanding and evolving the concepts inherent in such works as “Collective Autobiography” (presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, 2013), as well as her recent large-scale solo exhibition titled “Curating Body/The Cached Space” held at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia (2014), Loizidou attempts to permit the viewer to “perceive that which appears possible or not, in an ‘ambiguous space’ which is re-defined”.
Artists
Maria Loizidou
Maria Loizidou studied sculpture at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and lived in Paris until 1987 when she moved to Nicosia. In 1981, she received the ‘Prix de Paris’ award, which secured her a residency at the Villa Pezyeux, Paris. She was subsequently offered a studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 2014 she was short-listed for the Curate Award of the Fondazione Prada and the Qatar Museum Authorities.
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