February 2012, Angela Evangelou

For February we welcome at Radio Art an important painter from Cyprus, Angela Evangelou.

Having studied in England and Greece, she has dedicated her life in art, either as an animator of theatrical game or as a radio producer, but mainly as a visual art creator of outstanding works of art.

In old Nicosia, Angela full of passion, endless love and incomparable expertise is painting using a wide variety of materials giving life to all those valuable luminal goods that we must not forget and have as a basis the love and creation feeding the perpetual circle or our own lives.

Her works are flying somewhere between painting and sculpture investigating, as she tells us, life, death and the nature of time.

Dear Angela, we welcome you at Radio Art, as you know, art is above all giving and endless love for human beings. Your contribution is very important and we thank you.

Below we site a text that Angela wrote especially for Radio Art, some reviews for her work and her short CV.

For the Banner of Radio Art, we have selected photos from some of her works that we particularly like.

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Ever since I was a child I have had some difficulty with the written word… I found the language of art much easier. And across the years I have observed three dominant themes which I feel the need to express through this language: life, death and the nature of time. The earth attracts us. This attraction can seduce us so strongly sometimes that we spend the whole of our lives literally attached to the earth and all it has to offer. When we die, we find ourselves placed deep beneath the soil, becoming one with the earth itself. It is an erotic relationship that lasts a lifetime and is only completed when we offer up our own material bodies. We become an embryo once again, embraced by the womb of the earth, a seedling awaiting and hoping for photosynthesis, and self-regeneration. A revolution against the finality of death, a vital link in the chain of the ecosystem. In a deeper sense, to recycle, means to love…

Angela Evangelou

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"With canvas as her tool, she paints and then tares, opening a perpetual cycle, a cycle of a disclosure, one memory over another, one experience over another, skillfully managing to present externalization and internalization as one. Her collection “Small treasures from my walks” feature materials from the earth, which she collects from everywhere. These include mainly rusted irons, as she uses the rust as a symbol, expression and imprinting of man’s track through time. Oxidation, wear and tare, touch and breath of time. Their deterioration is their treasure. ‘It may be the journey of peace we have to make with time,’ she says. ‘These materials are inhabited by the sun, rain, time and dust and are shaped and reshaped by the weight of their fate in the material world.’ "

Dina Pampali

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"The artist’s rips the canvas and creates a multi-faceted synthesis with black and red being the dominant colors. Various materials have been incorporated in her paintings, like soil, melted wax and wire. In some instances she sews the canvas with red thread. The written word has a strong presence in her work where phrases, either written by the artist herself, or others, are presented and repeated. The words she uses are symbols that coexist with other symbols and images, like that of the cross, giving her works an allegorical and metaphysical dimension. The paintings are dramatic and dark but without causing fear. Her work plays with the balance between sculpture and painting. Angela Evangelou’s art explores the relationship between space and art. It is quite interesting to note that the artist has also worked on sculpture as well as painting.

Margarita Paraskevaidou

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Brief Biography

The artist was born and raised in Cyprus. She studied Theatre in London and Athens and taught theatre and puppetry to kindergarten students and children. She worked as a music producer at CYBC, ASTRA and LGR radio stations. She has been active in the field of fine arts since 1994 and maintains a workshop/studio in old Nicosia. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and four solo exhibitions. Since August of 2000 she is Enyalios mother.