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1953: Night Works and Other Studies by Valentino Joseph
Bringing together sketches made in bed just before sleep, technical notes and sculptures maquettes that were never materialized, as well as a series of portrait studies culminating in a single painting, Pylon Art & Culture hosts the first solo exhibition of Valentino Joseph, seeking to shed light on another side of his multifaceted body of work. Opening on the second day of the Limassol Art Walks, the exhibition unfolds as both an epilogue and an autonomous continuation of the performance 1953 at the Rialto Theatre.
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1953
1953, a dramaturgical exercise on the facticity of the present, reimagines the Rialto Theatre as a fluid space dissolving borders between stage and auditorium, inside and outside, day and night. Structured in three parts and lasting fifteen hours, from sunset to sunrise, it unfolds as a shifting landscape where the dramatised and the real intermingle. Its coordinates are set by the lives of scenographer Valentino Joseph and Julie the elephant, both born in 1953.
1953: Night Works and Other Studies by Valentino Joseph
Bringing together sketches made in bed just before sleep, technical notes and sculptures maquettes that were never materialized, as well as a series of portrait studies culminating in a single painting, Pylon Art & Culture hosts the first solo exhibition of Valentino Joseph, seeking to shed light on another side of his multifaceted body of work. Opening on the second day of the Limassol Art Walks, the exhibition unfolds as both an epilogue and an autonomous continuation of the performance 1953 at the Rialto Theatre.
Pylon Art & Culture hosts the first solo exhibition of Valentino Joseph, shedding light on another side of his multifaceted practice. Through sketches made in bed just before sleep, models for sculptures that were never realized, and a series of portrait studies culminating in a single painting, the exhibition reveals a parenthetical body of work from the 1990s, set alongside his scenographic and graphic design creations. The exhibition Night Works and Other Studies unfolds as an autonomous epilogue to the performance 1953, which will be staged at the Rialto Theatre on 31 October with Valentino Joseph at its dramaturgical core. It opens on the second day of the Limassol Art Walks, as part of the Art Explora Festival, carrying elements and materials from the theatre stage into the exhibition space, while also presenting works shown exclusively in the exhibition. Joseph’s trajectory is marked by his remarkable flexibility across media and languages: from stage design and costume to graphic design and illustration. In Limassol he has been a seminal figure, contributing consistently to the shaping of the city’s cultural life and bringing theatre, music and the visual arts into dialogue. Night Works and Other Studies is not conceived as a retrospective, but as an invitation into a personal and unseen creative process.
Valentino Joseph
Valentino Joseph was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1953. He studied Graphic Design & Illustration at the Cambridge College of Arts & Technology (1971–1974) and Chelsea School of Art, London (1977). Since 1981 he has worked as a freelance set and costume designer, graphic designer and illustrator. He maintains a longstanding collaboration with the cultural organisation Diastasis, for which he has designed sets and costumes for over thirty productions, many of which have toured Europe, the USA and Russia. His collaborations include directors such as Nicos Charalambous, Michael Cacoyannis, and choreographers including Lorca Massine, Peter Curtis and Dimitris Papaioannou. He is a founding member of Cyprus Opera (1983), for which he designed Così fan tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro. He has also designed for the Cyprus National Theatre, Praxis Theatre (Limassol), and numerous concerts, events and galas.
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Pylon Art & Culture, Athinon 1a, Limassol 3041
Accessibility
No accessibility for: wheelchair users, visually impaired, or hearing impaired
Dates and times
Exhibition from Saturday November 1 to November 29. Limassol Art Walks - Opening hours: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 November: 11:00-20:00 Thursdays and Fridays from 17:00 - 20:00 and Saturdays from 11:00 - 14:00
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Immersive exhibition "Présentes
Created with the exceptional collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, this exhibition highlights female figures in Mediterranean civilization, thanks to the digitization and modeling of part of the Louvre's collections. A two-stage experience: an introductory film to provide context, followed by an immersive experience in a 16-meter-long tunnel covered by 120 m2 of LED screens.
A sound journey through the Mediterranean
An immersive sound experience designed by Ircam, inviting the public to explore the richness and diversity of the Mediterranean through headphones equipped with spatialized sound.
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