EXHIBITION
GIDEON RUBIN
ONCE REMOVED
17 May – 5 July 2017

Gideon Rubin asks what it means to be a contemporary painter by using anonymous photographs, often from the turn of the century. He then selects characters and scenes which he conveys onto canvas or linen. Through the use of broad brushstrokes and a muted palette, the figures and landscapes are often abstracted, details are effaced and scenes move in and out of the picture plane. The surfaces of the paintings reveal strata of previous paintings or are scraped back to reveal the canvas beneath.  In other instances, Rubin leaves entire areas of canvas untouched so that they become integral parts of the work whilst drawing attention to the paintings support. Embedded within layers of paint or receding from view, it is as if his selected characters are entrenched in multiple histories or are unrecoverable in the here and now.  read more...

17th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER
MUSIC FESTIVAL
2 – 20 JUNE 2017

Since its inception 17 years ago the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival has established itself as the most important annual classical music event in Cyprus, and has gained an international reputation for its quality concerts and magnificent settings. Organized between 2 and 20 June 2017, the 17th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival welcomes to Cyprus some of the most remarkable artists on the international music scene, for an extensive week of music-making in two unique venues in Cyprus. Exploring the many forms of the chamber music genre, the Festival will encompass an impressive array of instrumental combinations and repertoire, ranging from the Baroque to the 20th century, as well as a number of rarely performed masterpieces of the highest level by some of the world’s most renowned soloists. The Festival also maintains a strong tradition of community service, with educational concerts organized for students of public schools and a number of master-classes for young instrumentalists. read more...

17TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER
MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017
VOICE & PIANO RECITAL
SUSANNE ELMARK / SOPRANO
CHRISTIAN WESTERGAARD / PIANO
Friday 2 June 2017

The 17th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival opens on Friday 2 June 2017, at The Shoe Factory in Nicosia, with a voice and piano recital by the renowned Danish coloratura soprano Susanne Elmark. In great demand around the world for the last twenty years, Elmark has been engaged in houses like Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Opera Oslo, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Cologne, Opernhaus Zürich, and Royal Opera Copenhagen. For her recital in Cyprus, Susanne Elmark will join forces with the international repetiteur Christian Westergaard, winner of the 2015 International Lied Duo Competition, in a programme of songs by Debussy, Berg, R. Strauss, Prokofiev and Grieg. read more...

17TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER
MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017
PIANO RECITAL
VITALY PISARENKO
Friday 9 June 2017

The Pharos Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Keyboard Charitable Trust in London will welcome the return visit of the sensational young pianist Vitaly Pisarenko, winner of the First Prize in the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition and Third Prize winner at the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition. His recital, which is organised on Friday 9 June 2017 at The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, as part of the 17th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival, will include works by Schubert, Schumann and Liszt. read more...