The visual artist is exhibiting his works for the first time in his home country, more precisely at the Hamidiyya Mosque in the Citadel of Chios – Opening August 28
THE North Aegean region 2024, from August 28 to September 7, is the 3rd year in a row that the “Eight Island Festival” is organized.3rd Gummy Bear Festival» hosts a very important art exhibition Calliopis Lemou.
The visual artist is exhibiting his works for the first time in his homeland, to be more precise Hamidiyya Mosque into Chios CastleWith the title “Hidden and Open Infinite Sea“.
From his workshop London and with multi-dimensional sculpture, painting and installation work around the world Calliope Lemou is exhibited for the first time in a year Chios “”Hidden and Open Infinite Sea“. The opening of the exhibition will take place on August 28.
Three of the nine works in the series complete the exhibition Ritual Clothing (2020 – 2022) was presented 4th Autumn Biennale – International Sacred Contemporary Art Festival in Francein his Museum Dordrecht in The Netherlands and in the Gallery Gazelli Art House into Baku.
At the exhibition Hamidiyya Mosque it’s a tribute to him Calliopis Lemou in Chiosthe homeland that raised him, in it Englandhis second home, where he worked continuously for years and dedicated himself to it The Greek Center of LondonSince 1994, it has been actively involved in the spread of Greek Culture in the heart of the capital of Great Britain.
His favorite subject Calliopis Lemou it is the sea that brings together people from both sides of the Aegean Sea, as it once brought together their ancestors from Chigos and the East. The female figure, which manifests itself in all his works, keeps a firm rudder both in storms and in the calmness of the calm sea. This sea is described in his work Calliopis Lemou and the immovable spirit, longing for redemption and happiness.
It is carried out by the exhibition Ephorate of Chios Antiquities cooperates with North Aegean region and organized under his auspices The Greek Center in London.
THE Calliope Lemou (b. 1951, Oinousses, Chios) lives and works in London. He is a sculptor, painter, creates large-scale installations and films. He studied painting and printmaking at the Byam Shaw School of Art, where he also completed a postgraduate course in painting.
Kalliopi Lemou has exhibited widely in various international cultural venues. His trilogy exhibition “Intersections” is a work dedicated to forced migration. The artist collected from the shores of the Greek islands and presented the original wooden boats used to transport immigrants. The project took place at Eleusis in Istanbul (2006) (2007) and in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (2009) as part of the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Some of his best known works include the tripartite Navigation in the Dark (2011) at the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Ibrahim Khan Mosque, Rethymno and the privacy of St. Pancras Church, the installation Pledges as part of the 3rd London Biennale. Çanakkale, Turkey (2012), a public sculpture installation Tools of Endearment at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and London, UK, Westersingel in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Boissy-le Chatel, France. The visual artist presented the film “Careless Transformations” (2016) at the 5th Dardanelles Biennale, Osnabrück, Germany (2017) and the series “Ritual Garments” at the 4th Autumn – International Festival of Sacred Contemporary Art in France (2023). Dordrecht Museum in Holland and Gazelli Art House gallery in Baku. Finally, his works are in private collections and permanent public exhibitions.
In 2015, his project Lemon «At the center of the world» won the award Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Award.