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GALERIE MARIA LUNDDirector : Maria LundGallery creadon’s year: 1999www.marialund.comgalerie@marialund.com+33 1 42 76 00 3348 rue de Turenne75003 ParisMaria Loizidou, Pelage, 2012. Crocheted metal thread, 130 x 60 x 50 cm © Maria Loizidou et Galerie Maria LundFocus ardst : Maria Loizidou, born in 1958Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Min Jung-­‐Yeon et Peter NeuchsPrices of the works: from 1 000 € to 10 000 €For DRAWING NOW PARIS 2013 Maria Loizidou is exhibidng a body of drawings, volumes and a video endtled Tout est possible (Everything is possible), on the theme of memory and our percepdon of reality. Her drawings Memoscapes describe the landscape of memory. However the fragile paper is not merely used for drawing, but for also the construcdon of tridimensional works, which create an illusion of solidity. Oppositely, the volumes made out of hard and cold metal (Pelage -­‐ visual) become as flexible and delicate as the line of a drawing. The ardst describes this work as an "inside-­‐out glove retaining the shape of a hand. Its creadon allows one to travel through a lengthy thought-­‐process that follows the dme and rhythm of its making. It is a vessel, therefore, of thoughts on art and life."The GPS Memoscapes video subtly relates the core basis of art-­‐making, -­‐ the use of colour, the tracing of a line -­‐ to image and words in order to describe the reladonship between art and existence… The film ends with the opdmisdc yet ambiguous sentence "Tout est possible" (“Everything is possible”). Cypriot ardst Maria Loizidou has pardcipated in many internadonal exhibidons (Venice Biennial – 1986, Cairo Biennial – 2010, Benaki Museum in Athens – 2008, Musée d’art moderne de Saint Edenne Métropole – 2010, the Nadonal Museum of contemporary art in Thessalonica – 2010, BOZAR museum in Brussels – 2012). Promodng works on paper has been at the heart of the Gallery Maria Lund’s acdvity since 2006. Many of our ardsts are featured in public French collecdons. Presse mappe I Seite 49