"Rinos Stefani - acrobats"

Focusing on the artist’s work, the book represents sample of Rinos Stefani’s work over the past 10 years (1998 – 2008). The book includes 103 paintings categorised in three thematic units; Erotic, Acrobats and Dancers.

“Rinos Stefani’s painting oeuvre essentially begins in the early years of the 1980s – a decade that marked the re-emergence of painting at the forefront of the international visual arts scene, after years of having been overtaken by other art forms…Images of a world that us at once familiar and strange or estranged. Like scenes from a play of the theatre of the absurd – the familiar and intimate loom unfamiliar and otherworldly – just as absurd are often the painting’s titles. Images which refer to the primordial, the primitive, the essential, but also their extinction or the serving of our umbilical cord with them. Thus, the planters, the wayfarers and the dancers loom Sisyphus-like images, trapped in an endless, eternal cycle with no redemption. The lovers seem frozen in time, stills from an ancient ritual, foreign to our times”.
-Dr. Antonis Danos, Lecturer of Art History and Theory, Cyprus University of Technology

The book launch will be greeted by the President of the Cyprus Chamber of Arts, Daphne Trimikliniotou. A talk about the work of the artist will be developed by Evripides Zantides, Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia, entitled “The Fine Line”. The talk will cover issues which have to do with the relationship of graphic design and the art publications; how to keep a balance between the two aspects, giving emphasis to balance, colour and images and layout when both parties involved have a specific and perhaps varied opinion. This will be followed by a talk by well know Cyprus Sculptor, Kyriakos Kallis which will attempt to present a retrospective of Rinos Stefani’s work and give his personal opinion through his personal experiences and common seeking.

Latin American, Spanish and Greek music will follow the presentation.

"Rinos Stefani - acrobats":

Editor: Antonis Danos, Lecturer of Art History and Theory, Cyprus University of Technology

Design and Artistic Supervision: Evripides Zantides and Aspasia Papadema

Photography: Nicolas Ioardanou and Andreas Constantinou

Publisher: Pantheon Cultural Association, Melissa Hekkers