Cyprus News Agency 21/3/1997
“A view of Scotland” is the new exhibition organized at the Power House by the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, associated with the Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, the British Council and the Cultural Centre of the Hellenic Bank. The exhibition opened on March 19 and will last until May 11. It is a large event containing at least three exhibitions. Exhibition One, Keeping Glasgow in Stitches includes seven huge banners made for the year 1990, when Glasgow was the European Capital of Culture. Creative director Clare Higney, who was responsible for the project, said that at least 600 Glaswegians, of all ages and professions have joined forces on these banners. On display with the Glaswegian art, are the six finalists for the Cypriot banner. The winner is Rinos Stefani and the space is ready for the official hanging of his work on May 7.
The British Council, Programme of Events, Feb. – Apr. 1997
Award ceremony and presentation of the local Banner: On the occasion of the exhibition, the organizers, in collaboration with the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, have declared a competition among Cypriot and resident artists for the design of a banner. The topic will be “Cyprus, its people and culture”. The Ministry of Education and Culture has kindly agreed to assist in the manufacture of the banner which will be sent to Glasgow Museums, as gesture of thanks.
Glyn Hughes, Cyprus Weekly, 13 – 27.11.1998
The last time there was a European discussion over the work of Rinos Stefani it was in Paris, early summer, when a friend observed – during the height of football fever – a rolling ball of trash collecting full coverage on Euronews. Most of you will remember that it was Rinos who won the coveted prize for a tapestry during the Power House’s great Scottish event. That work of Art is now in a Glasgow Museum.
The man who packed the Paphian beaches with mannequins, sent a ball of debris rolling across the same shore and sews a nice hem for an appliqué is also an excellent painter. He is thinkingly and creatively talented enough to put our post modernists into a spin. His more recent work is more abstract but is, if anything, more pigmentally sensuous; even if it is a fish causing consternation on the end of a pier. A bracing, life-enhancing work.
