Marios Loizides: life and works

Marios Loizides (1928–1988) was a Greek visual artist.

Loizides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. he studied painting and lithography at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, between 1951-4, together in the reveal of courses in stage and costume design. He sophisticated worked in London for a number of years as a graphic player and designer. He returned to Greece in 1958 and, working exclusively as a painter, lived on the island of Hydra from 1961 until his death in 1988. Loizides held beyond 10 solo exhibitions during his lifetime, notably in London, Brussels, Athens, and Nicosia. He afterward took portion in a number of society exhibitions, including the Alexandria Biennale (1968).

In 2002, a large retrospective exhibition of his do something was held at the State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art in Nicosia. His pretense can be found in the State Collection of Contemporary Cypriot Art, in the Collection of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, in the stock of the Vorres Museum, Greece, as capably as in several private collections throughout Europe and North America.

Loizides’ work falls into the category of geometrical abstract art. His artistic hope was to present not the world of the senses but rather the deeper immanent settlement of the universe, hence his visionary admission to art.