George Tornaritis
The Cypriot lawyer, art collector and artist George Tornaritis presets a solo painting exhibition at Apocalypse Gallery in Nicosia.
George K. Tornaritis was born in Limassol in 1936. He grew up in Nicosia, graduated from the Pankyprion High School in 1953 and studied law at the University of Cambridge (MA and LIB Grays Inn: Barister at Law).
In 1996 he co-founded with Dimitris Pierides the Tornaritis-Pierides Marine Life Foundation on which he bestowed a great part of his collection of fossils and marine-life specimens from Cyprus. The Foundation has established two museums; the Tornaritis-Pierides Municipal Museum of Palaeontology, Larnaca, and the Thalassa Museum, Ayia Napa. Since 1967 he paints subjects relating to Cyprus.
In 1969 he exhibited in Famagusta together with the well-known painter John Corbidge. In 2009 he presented his works together with the Turkish-Cypriot painter Hulusi Halit at the Nicosia City Hall near the Green Line. In November 2009 he exhibited jointly with Hulusi Halit at the Heinrich Boll Foundation building in Berlin. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions of painting.
The exhibition will be inaugurated by the Minister of Education and Culture Mr. George Dimosthenous on October 3rd 2012 at 19:30.
Opening Hours
Daily: 10:30 - 13:00 & 16:30 - 20:00
Saturday: 10:30 - 14:00
When
Where
Tofarko House
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