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Christodoulos Panayiotou
Christodoulos Panayiotou (born 1978) is a Cypriot artist. Panayiotou's work spans a wide range of media, including sculpture, painting, installation, performance, photography, and video, and focuses on uncovering hidden narratives in the visual and material records of history and time. Drawing from his training in dance and the performing arts, as well as his studies in history and theatre anthropology, the artist’s work often involves the re-contextualisation of found materials and performance-based interventions. Early life Panayiotou was born in 1978 in Limassol, Cyprus. Selected works ''Wonder Land'', ''Never Land'', ''I Land'' ''Wonder Land'' (2008), ''Never Land'' (2008) and ''I Land'' (2010) form a trilogy of 35mm slide projections that are the product of extensive archival research into the past of the artist’s home country, Cyprus. ''Wonder Land'' comprises eighty photographs from the Limassol carnival taken between 1975 and 2008 and stored in the city’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limassol
Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population of 183,658 and a metropolitan population of 239,842. In 2014, Limassol was ranked by TripAdvisor as the 3rd up-and-coming destination in the world, in its Top 10 Traveler's Choice Destinations on the Rise list. The city is also ranked 89th worldwide in Mercer's Quality of Living Survey (2017). In the 2020 ranking published by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Limassol was classified as a "Gamma −" global city. History Limassol was built between two ancient Greek cities, Amathus and Kourion, and during Byzantine rule it was known as Neapolis (new town). Limassol's historical centre is located around its medieval Limassol Castle and the Old Port. Today the city spreads along the Mediterranean coast and has extende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
