Cyprus 2017, 13 May 2017 — 26 Nov 2017
National Participations

Cyprus 2017

The Future of Colour

Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Castello 3865

Colour once was key to politics and trade in the Mediterranean. Fabric manufacturing, medicine, painting, and cosmetics alike depended on pigment supplies and colour binding agents like alum. Main alum resources lay in the Eastern Mediterranean. So Rome banned alum imports to curb Constantinople’s influence. Yet, despite the embargo, around 1500 the agent was still in circulation via the Venetian trade network, including Cyprus.
“The Future of Colour” takes this story as the point of de­par­ture for invoking the spirit of unstoppable exchange — in the key of living colour.
The show invokes the spirit of the Eastern Mediterranean as a zone where routes cross, travelers meet and trade in a poetic knowledge that may render past and future in fresh colours.

Polys Peslikas’s new paintings, shown in the pavilion, draw on fragments of historic imagery. He zooms in on details of Venetian paintings and Modernist collages. He extracts colours, patterns, and ornaments that resonate across time. Mixing these ingredients, Peslikas performs an alchemy that liquefies time.

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ADDRESS
Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Castello 3865
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