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    CONSTANTINOS JOACHIM
                                                              
    • Constantinos Joachim was born in Bellapais, Cyprus, 1936
    • Studied Art at Bath Academy of Art, UK, specialising in painting, sculpture and visual perception.
    • Post Graduate Diploma in painting, aesthetics and history of art, in London.
    • Joachim established his own Bellapais Studio & Gallery in Bellapais, Cyprus, where he worked and exhibited until 1974 when forced to leave. 
    • He has shown paintings abroad at the Europa Galleries of Berlin and Munich, and Lambert Galleries in Los Angeles.
    • He has represented Cyprus at the 34th International Biennale of Venice 1968
    • At the 10th International Biennale of Sao Paolo 1969
    • At the Commonwealth Institute London 1970
    • At the 1st International Triennale of New Delhi 1971
    • At the Biennale des Jeunes Artists, Paris 1971
    • At the Contemporary Art Hamburg Germany 1974 
    • He has participated in many group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.
    • He has received the Awards for Poster Design Montecatini Italy 1969
    • Award of Merit Environmental project, Paris 1971
    • Award of the Ford Foundation, Athens 1977
    • Award of the British Council  Post Graduate Studies 1979
    • Joachim has taught Art and Design in the Secondary  Schools for over 30 years
    • Since his first one man exhibition at the Cyprus Hilton in 1968, Joachim has held nineteen exhibitons to date. His latest is from 7th December to 12th December at the Cyprus Hilton Hotel Gallery Nicosia.
    • Joachim¢s swirling fluid paintings, on large canvasses,  based on mythological and archaeological themes, blend the abstract with the figurative in a highly individual manner, with their references to the rich civilisation and ancient glory embedded in the earth and coastal waters of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.
    • Joachim is one of the longest established artists of Painting in Cyprus who started exhibiting with the old school of artists before 1960.
    • Constantinos Joachim now lives and works in his present Studio* in Dasoupolis, Nicosia. Tel. 02-427001
    • Bellapais Studio & Gallery, 18, Livaniou Str. Dasoupolis,2028, Nicosia.