One more exhibition joins Nicosia’s art scene this April, enriching the cultural happenings of the capital city. Opening on Friday at Marginalia Gallery is Anastasia Charalambous’ 1721 Hours, a showcase that will run until April 26.

“With 30 works, the artist assimilates, through a rich energetic gesture, a poetic identity, a genuine and entirely personal version of her inspiration, developing a subtle dialectic with colour and other material, which she uses to complete her work,” says art critic Andreas Hadjithomas.

“Her paintings,” he adds, “have a distinctive structure that provides a strong foundation, highlighting the core of each form. Around this, colour contrasts, subtle harmonies, and the technical intricacies of her narrative come to life.”

The artist’s choice of material and colour transform her pieces, as is the carefully-thought use of symbols. Textiles, paint and canvases all come together in space and time to create 1721 Hours.

“1721 Hours speaks of the artist’s resistance to immediate completion,” says the exhibition’s curator Εleni Angastiniotou, “favouring slowness and the accumulation of purposeful acts of self-isolation and meaning seeking.

“Textiles and pigment are overlaid, cut through, and reconfigured, creating surfaces that are as much about opacity as they are about disclosure,” she concludes. “They act as palimpsests, where each successive layer hints at the unseen forces beneath. Imprints of the past remain partially obscured, visible yet mediated, as if the work itself is negotiating between what is revealed and what remains concealed.”

1721 Hours

Solo exhibition by Anastasia Charalambous. Marginalia Gallery, Nicosia. April 4-26. Opening: 7pm-10pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10am-1pm, 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 99-657080. [email protected]