28/06-14/07 2013

The Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation in collaboration with the Association of Fashion Designers of Cyprus and the support and collaboration of the Museum of Traditional Art, organises the exhibition ‘REINVENTED HISTORIES, from Tradition to Contemporary Fashion’ from 28^th of June until 14^th of July, at Evagoras Lanitis Centre in Limassol.

The exhibition which is curated by the art director Andreas Antoniou presents contemporary creations of 15 Cypriot fashion designers inspired by Cypriot traditional costumes. This is an “open dialogue” between the contemporary art creation and the traditional costumes and accessories from the collection of the Museum of Traditional Art.

The following designers participate in the exhibition:

Kristos Avraam, Antonia Chambi, Barbara Christofi, Eleni Gircalli, Marios Gregoriades, Afroditi Hera, Kika Ioannidou, Fotini Lamnissos, Joanna Louca, Marina Nicolaidou, Pantelis Panteli, Tota Patsalidou, Christina Pitsillidou, Dora Schabel, Lana Sevas, Elena Strongyliotou, Tita Stylianou.

Special Guest Designers: Erotokritos, Mastori Motwary Studio, Charilaos Meletiou

Dates: June 28-July 14, 2013

Exhibition opening hours: Daily: 18.00-22.00

Sponsor: Irini Fantousi / Fashion Event Management

Supporter: Municipality Limassol, Ministry of Education and Culture and Carob Mill Restaurants Ltd

Media Sponsor: I lovestyle.com

Information: Tel: 25 342123

Evagoras Lanitis Centre , Carobmill Lanitis

“This man has not only made children dream. He has given profoundness to the sea and unity to the planet.”Eric Orsenna, writer, academic

As part of the International Sea Festival Nautilus, the Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, in collaboration with the Oceanographic Center of the University of Cyprus and the ‘Rencontres de la Terre’, will present a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The tribute, which will be held on the 5^th of November at 10 am at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre, will host the honorary guest Pierre-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, President of Cousteau Divers and the son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Pierre, along with Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, the Research Director at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research will present and discuss Cousteau’s work and influence, as well as their concerns for the marine environment.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was passionately in love with the Mediterranean Sea. Long before anyone he recognised the dangers threatening it, and throughout his life never ceased to inform and warn us about them. Alternative in his documentaries, with shocking images showing the grandeur of the underwater world, Cousteau was also a maestro in handling the narrative power of images. In the film “Le Sang de la Mer” (“Mediterranean: Cradle or Coffin?”), filmed in 1977, Cousteau shows without concessions the image of the future of Mediterranean ecosystems, if no measures are taken to protect them. Indeed, what have we kept, in 2012, from the great explorer’s legacy?

For more information please contact the Evagoras Lanitis Centre:

Telephone: 25342123 / www.lanitisfoundation.org

Co-Organisers : Ministry of Culture and Education, Limassol Municipality, ΡΙΚ

Evagoras Lanitis Centre

An exhibition dedicated to the Navigation in the Mediterranean Sea between the 16^th and 19^th century.

“I am indeed, the Lord of the World, but the Law is the Lord of the sea.”

Roman Emperor Antoninus, (138 – 161 A.D.), Justinian’s Digest, Book XIV (Title I-II)

(529 – 565 AD)

Under the auspices of the Cypriot Presidency of the EU and on the occasion of the signing of the Limassol declaration by the European Member States, the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation is organising an exhibition centred on Navigation in the Mediterranean Sea during the 16th to the 19th centuries.  The exhibition will be held at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre from 9^th of October to the 15^th of November 2012.

The exhibition focuses on Portolan charts and their history and origins, illustrates the cities and the ports that flourished, examines the different types of ships that navigated, whereas special attention is given to famous sea battles and to piracy, both Christian and Muslim; The last chapter of the exhibition is dedicated to the Capitulation that the Ottoman Empire offered to the European states, and to the origins and development of maritime law in the Mediterranean Sea.

A sophisticated multimedia production, combined with an exhibition of original portolan maps from the Correr Museum of Venice, of European sea charts of the 19th century from the Collection of the Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus and ship models of Aristotles Onassis collection that will travel all the way from the Hellenic Maritime Museum, in Piraeus will guide the visitor into the magical world of our Common Sea and our common European Heritage.

Presidents Barroso and Christofias will inaugurate the exhibition on Monday, October 8 in the morning and the exhibition will be open to the public from the 8 ^th to the 13^th of November.

The exhibition «Mare Liberum» is curated by Anna Marangou, archaeologist and art Historian and designed by architect George Papadopoulos. The graphic design and the video animation are the combined works of Artemis Psathas and Christina Olympiou.

For more information please contact the Evagoras Lanitis Centre:

Telephone: 25342123 / www.lanitisfoundation.org

Co-Organisers : Ministry of Culture and Education, Limassol Municipality, ΡΙΚ

Opening hours: daily except Mondays  10.00-13.00, 16.00-20.00

Saturday and Sunday 10.00-13.00, 16.00-20.00

Exhibition of Modern Art

The exhibition Méditerranée presents works by artists from Cyprus and the Mediterranean, who through their work explore the spirit of the“closed sea of cultures”.

Opening hours for exhibition mediterranee

Daily except Monday:

10:00-13:00

17:00-20:00

Saturday and Sunday

17:00-20:00

Artists: Etel Adnan / Anna Boghiguian / Valentinos Charalambous / Emin Çizenel / Savvas Christodoulides / Marianna Christofides / Bia Davou / Giuseppe Gabellone / Luigi Ghirri / Jannis Kounellis / Nikos Kouroussis / Maria Loizidou / Katerina Neophytidou / Rallou Panagiotou / Jean-Daniel Pollet / Aldo Rossi / Christoforos Savva / Christiana Soulou / Uygur Yilmaz

Curator: Christoforos Marinos

What do we know about the Mediterranean today? Is it still the ‘inexhaustible source of information useful to our history’ Le Corbusier argued it to be? Do the landscapes unfolding across this place of myth continue to fascinate artists, and how may its stock of representations actually inspire them?

Méditerannée is an exhibition featuring nineteen artists from different countries of the Mediterranean whose work probes the mental aspect of that ‘enclosed sea of civilizations’. Belonging to different generations, these artists often adopt an archeologist’s perspective in order to propose narratives that are concerned not with the topography of the Mediterranean alone, but with its symbolic valence, its variegated layers of meaning. In the exact same manner of the great modernist artists that travelled round it and sang its praises, the contemporary artists see in the Mediterranean –in its cities, and islands, and coasts– an inscrutable metaphor, a grand narrative to be interpreted and deconstructed.

The exhibition borrows its title from the famous movie Méditerranée (1963) of Jean-Daniel Pollet, one of the most important avant-garde French films. The repetitive, almost hypnotic images that compose the somber film was a result of Pollet’s three and a half month trip made in fifteen countries of the Mediterranean. In keeping with the style of Pollet’s film, works in the exhibition Méditerannée are treated as if they were words or signs, which seen as a whole offer viewers the possibility to articulate their own private poetry.

Christoforos Marinos is an art historian, art critic and curator based in Athens. He is the founder and co-editor of the online art magazine kaput (www.kaput.gr). He is the editor of Possibilities: Interviews with Young Greek Artists (futura, Athens, 2006); Meatspace: Art in a State of Emergency (www.meatspaceart.org); The Task of Curating (AICA Hellas, Criticism + Art Journal, 2011). Since 2002, Marinos has been contributing regularly to various Greek art journals and exhibition catalogues. As an Athens correspondent, he has collaborated with Flash Art, Modern Painters and artforum.com. Marinos is the president of AICA Hellas.

Evagoras Lanitis Centre
29 June-12 August 2012

The Municipality of Lemesos (Limassol) in collaboration with the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, the Department of Antiquities and the Holy Bishopric of Lemesos present the exhibition «Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula, Historia, Memoria», under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Ancient findings, unearthed from Amathus, Pyrgos, Erimi, Episkopi and Kourion, representative works of medieval sgraffito, glazed pottery and byzantine iconography, from the Limassol district (Monagri, Koilani, Pelendri, Amiantos, Arakapas) are set aside and converse with creations by contemporary Cypriot visual artists, which bear and further elaborate on the collective historical, mythological and hagiographical past of the place, drawing on forms and concepts of the Maniera Cypria of the past and giving rise to the Maniera Cypria of today.

The exhibition will be opened by the Minister of Communications and Works Mr Efthymios Flourentzos, on Friday, 29 June 2012, at 8.00 p.m. at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Carob Mill, Lemesos.

Curated by Dr. Nadia Anaxagorou, Director of the Cultural Services of the Municipality of Lemesos, the exhibition will host the following visual artists: Angelos Makrides, Helene Black, Nicos Charalambides, Savvas Christodoulides, Andreas Chrysochos, Marianna Constanti, John Corbidge, Christos Foukaras, Theodoulos Gregoriou, Demetrakis Gerokostas, Yiota Ioannidou, Elina Ioannou, Kyriakos Kallis, Lia Lapithi, Maria Loizidou, Antonis Neophytou, Εleni Nikodemou, Lefteris Olympios, Stass Paraskos, Kypros Perdios, Christoforos Savva, Renos Stefani, George Skotinos, Socrates Socratous, Lefteris Tapas, Susan Vargas, Panayiotis Vittis.

A catalogue in Greek and English will be available.

Duration of the exhibition: 29 June-12 August 2012
Tuesday- Sunday 10a.m.-1.00p.m. and 5.00p.m.-9.00p.m.
Closed on Monday