London, Thanasis Gavos

An exhibition by the great Greek Rena Papaspyrou has been hosted by the Greek Center in London since the beginning of the month.

The exhibition, the first in the British capital, is entitled ‘Images through matter’, and presents 22 representative works by the artist from the 1970s to the present day.

Rena Papaspyrou combines art with documentation and the technical methods she conveys find expression through sculpture, representation, painting, sketching and photography as she explores what constitutes the image.

In her work she uses bricks, tiles, mosaics and parts of walls, etc. These act as the foundations of her constructions, with cracks, breaks and dents highlighted with pencil or paint in a way that creates images, sculptures and structures.

The exhibition opens the autumn period of activities of the Hellenic Center, for decades a pole of attraction for the Cypriot and Greek community, which now constitutes a dynamic presence in the art field in the British capital.

Born in 1938, Rena Papaspyrou is considered one of the leading post-war visual artists of post-war Greece. Among other things, she was a professor at the School of Fine Arts for a number of years and since 2006 she has been a professor emeritus of the school. Her first solo exhibition was organized in 1966 in Paris and since then she has exhibited extensively in Europe, USA, China and Brazil.

The director of the Hellenic Center, Naia Giakoumaki, said she was proud on behalf of the Center to introduce Mrs. Papaspyrou to Britain, fulfilling the mission of the Hellenic Center.