Editorial

Erato Hadjisavva
Born in Cyprus in 1966
Studies
2000-2004 Master in Digital Arts
1985-1990 School of Fine Arts, Athens
1987-1989 Byzantine Painting
1983-1985 University of Economics
During the period 1995-2000 she has taught in secondary
education schools and since 2000 she is an
associate of the Fine Arts School Athens (in the
Art Workshop of Mr Psychopedis)
Solo Exhibitions
2003 Gallery Yiagianos Athens (Catalogue)
2002 Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus
1992 Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus
1991 Gallery Papadopoulou, Athens, Greece
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Photosynkyria, Museum of
Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2004 Every Monday, Gallery Hrusothemis,
Greece
2003 Passion, Byzantine and Christian
Museum, Greece
2001 Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
1993 Pancyprian Exhibition of Cyprus
Chamber of Fine Arts Famagusta Gate,
Nicosia, Cyprus
1987 Pancyprian Exhibition of Cyprus
Chamber of Fine Arts Famagusta Gate,
Nicosia, Cyprus
House of Cyprus-Athens
Thanasis Moutsopoulos, architect, writer
and curator, commenting on the artist’s
work points out: "Erato Hadjisavva steps
onto a series of cognitive domains, from
Gestalt psychology to even robotics as
well as onto milestones in the history of art
as far as structural image or optical illusion
is concerned, from M.C. Escher to
Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely and Op Art.
However, the artist brings all these experiences
to the 21st century through an array
of manipulations which go hand in hand
with the most recent quests of digital
technology, even of modern cinema in its
most impressive moments".
Her video installation "Wave" challenges
our notions of space and reality. Captured
in an arrangement of television sets, a flock
of birds is flying across the sky, each television
set portraying the same scene with
a slight difference in phase from the others.
By moving through the screens the flock of
birds distorts, and ultimately abolishes, the
boundaries between real, palpable space and
the digitised world of virtual reality, where
the birds’ movement is manipulated and
intensified, born directly in three dimensions,
contrary to the representational tradition
of visual arts, with its common practice
of two-dimensional treatment of threedimensional
objects.
Savella Michael
Born in Nicosia, in 1972
Studies
1992-1997 Painting at the School of Fine
Arts, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
1990-1991 Graphic Art at the Frederic
Institute of Technology, Cyprus
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art,
Nicosia, Cyprus
1999 Paratirites, Lobby Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Selected Group Exhibitions
and other Activities:
2005 Accidental Meetings – The Nicosia
Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia,
Cyprus
Beijing International Art Biennale,
China
2004 Women Cypriot Artists, Kereva Art
Museum, Helsinki, Finland
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