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PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK ON
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PAINTING OF COSTAS JOACHIM
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COSTAS JOACHIM ‘Dialogue with
the Surface’
The Life and Work of Costas Joachim
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Costas Joachim
was born in Bellapais Kyrenia, Cyprus. He studied art at Bath
Academy of Art in Corsham, UK, and the University of Bristol,
from 1960, with specialisation in painting, sculpture and visual
perception. He also specialised in art education.
In 1963 he was awarded the Degree
of Fine Arts and Education from the University of Bristol and in
1975, he received the Certificate of Fine Art of the School of
Fine Arts of the Polytechnic in Athens. In 1981 he received the
Diploma of Post Graduate Studies in aesthetics and history of
art, at Byam Shaw and Chelsea College of Art, London.
He established the Bellapais
Studio & Gallery in Bellapais along with his wife, Susan
Kerr in 1972. This was later re-established in Nicosia in
1978, where it now functions.
Costas Joachim
has held 21 one-man shows in Cyprus and Germany, and has taken
part in numerous group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad - in
significant exhibitions- in Berlin, Munich, Los Angeles, Paris, Montecatini, Hamburg, Athens and London, and represented Cyprus
at several International Biennale. |
