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portunity to see works by Tasos Stephanides,
presented for the first time in 17 years, as well
as the last works by Katy Stephanidou, which
until today have never been exhibited,” Tofari-
dou explains. “The visitor will see works from
series/landmarks of Cypriot art, such as Tasos
Stephanides’
Situations
,
Anguish of Planet
Earth
and
Isle of Estin
, and Katy Stephanidou’s
Transformations
and
Homeric
.”
According to the General Director of the Cul-
tural Services of the Ministry of Education and
Culture, Eleni Nikita, the exhibition is also in
honour and remembrance of Tasos Stephanides,
the metaphysical, prophetic painter and writer,
pioneer of modern fiction in Cyprus, and his
wife Katy Fasouliotou Stephanidou, a leading
and pioneering figure of modernism. “Katy’s
work created a bridge for Cypriot art to reach
the point it is at today,” says Nikita.
Katy Stephanidou: the matriarch of this ar-
tistically significant family
Katy Stephanidou belongs to the second gen-
eration of Cypriot artists. She was born in
Limassol in 1925. Her father was journalist
and publisher of the newspaper
Paratiritis
(Ob-
server) Panos Fasouliotis and her uncle, George
Fasouliotis, was a cartoonist for the newspaper
To Gelio
(The Laugh). She grew up in an intel-
lectual and liberal environment, which encour-
aged her to develop her artistic talents.