PARTICIPATION BY COSTAS JOACHIM
 

COSTAS JOACHIM - CIPRO
Costas Joachim born Bellapais, Cyprus 1936.

Studied: painting, sculpture, visual perception, Bath Academy of Art, UK. Fine Arts 1962; Art Education, Bristol University. Post Graduate Diploma; Painting, Aesthetics, Chelsea, London (1980).

Participated:

34th Biennale Venice,1968,  10th Biennale Sao Paolo, (1969), Lambert Galleries LosAngeles,(1970), Biennale Jeunes Artists, Paris(1971) Europa Galleries Berlin, Munich,(1975), ‘Revolutions’ Nicosia (1997), Galleria Mentana, ‘Artefirenze’ Florence, (2008),  7th Biennale of Florence (2009) ‘His style is personal, without references to other painting…( Tony Spiteris AICA)  ‘Vibrating surfaces, dialogues between colour and space, give rich poetic images to his paintings’…(Chrysanthos Christou, Art Historian) As a ‘dialogue with the surface’, Joachim explores abstract concepts with economy of means, but in later paintings, the language becomes even more poetic and symbolic; related to nature and most importantly, the human figure. The dialogue between figures and their environment, eliminating forms to their basic symbolic representation, expresses joy and freedom in poetic compositions.
Recent publication: ‘COSTAS JOACHIM  'Dialogue with the Surface’ 2015.

Costas Joachim,  Nicosia 2015