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The Deputy Ministry of Culture was saddened to learn of the death of visual artist, writer and doctor Kyrilos Sarris, who passed away on 28 June.
Kyrilos Sarris was born in Nicosia in 1950. While still a teenager, he studied under Lefteris Economou and Telemachos Kanthos during the period from 1963 to 1969. In 1970 he began studying medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and from 1976 he worked as a medical oncologist in Athens.
His presence in the visual arts was inaugurated in 1986 with the solo exhibition Notes at the "New Forms" art gallery in Athens. In 1987 he joined the then newly formed Greek group "Visual Poetry", which introduced in Greece, in a systematic and organized way, this international current of the fusion of textual discourse and visual language. Since then, Kirillos Sarris has presented his work in Greece and Cyprus, as well as in numerous group exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, France, France, Germany, Italy and China.
Cyril Sarris's works are usually exhibited in the form of art installations in space, in which drawings and sketches, constructions and video projections are intertwined to convey the artist's problematic.
Cyril Sarris approached his artistic work in the same way in which he perceived and practiced his medical practice: as a vocation and a contribution to society as a whole.
Cyril Sarris approached his artistic work in the same way in which he perceived and practiced his medical practice: as a vocation and a contribution to society as a whole. In this light, the main issue he was concerned with - the difficulty of art to communicate its meaning to its viewer-recipient - is transformed from a theoretical exercise of ideas into tangible poeticism and expressive excellence.
Beyond art and science, Cyril Sarris served with equal consistency and dedication the production of publications. A prominent scholar of Marcel Duschamp, he edited the volume Marcel Duchamp, the Engineer of Lost Time for Agra Publications, with whom he also collaborated in the publication of other books, such as The Art of the Age of Distraction by Nicholas Callas and GalleriesBernier. In addition, he lectured at universities and wrote essays on art.
It is with deepest regret and respect that the Ministry of State for Culture expresses its condolences to his family and loved ones.
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