ART ATHINA
Sep
18
to Sep 21

ART ATHINA

Anna Achilleos-Staeubli at Art Athina 2025 with Marginalia Gallery, Booth R31

Marginalia Gallery presents a selection of new encaustic works by Anna Achilleos-Staeubli, exploring the luminous depths of Mediterranean waters through the ancient medium of beeswax, damar resin, and fire. Born and raised in Cyprus, Anna draws from childhood memories of sulfur-scented copper mines and crystalline coastal waters to create her distinctive marine paintings.

Working with natural pigments including the celebrated Green Earth of Cyprus—Terre Verte de Chypre—the artist layers translucent wax to capture the ever-shifting textures and colors of the sea. Her encaustic technique mirrors the geological processes that shaped her island homeland, where molten wax becomes a metaphor for both artistic transformation and cultural memory.

These intimate seascapes reveal Anna Achilleos-Staeubli's mastery of a medium that demands both technical precision and intuitive response. Through controlled applications of heat, she achieves remarkable depth and luminosity, evoking the play of light on water and the ancient connection between Cyprus and the Mediterranean that has defined her artistic journey from tourist guide to painter.

The works on display continue her lifelong exploration of place and memory, expressed through a visual language that honors both contemporary practice and the timeless materials of her ancestral landscape.

Opening hours

Thursday 18/09 : By invitation only
Friday 19/09 to Monday 22/09 : 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

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Mesogeios
Jun
7
to Jun 29

Mesogeios

Opening : Friday 7th June 2024, 19:30 by His Excellency the Ambassador of Switzerland Mr. Christoph Burgener.

Opening hours :
Tuesday - Friday 10:00 - 13:00 & 17:30 - 20:00
Saturday 10:30 - 13:00

MARGINALIA GALLERY
15 D.E. Arch. Kyprianou, 2059 Strovolos, Cyprus
Tel : +357 99657080
marginalia.gallery@gmail.com

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Mesogeios
Aug
5
to Sep 4

Mesogeios

  • Cafe of the National Archaeological Museum (map)
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Στης θρέπτρας γης τα πέρατα θα πάω να ιδώ τη μάνα
Τηθύν, και τον Ωκεανόν, αρχήν των θεών όλων, οπού με γλυκοανάστησαν στα σπίτια τους εκείνοι.
Iliad Ξ 200

I was born at the edge of an ancient sea, the Sea of Tethys, “ Mesogeios”, the Mediterranean Sea.
Daughter of Uranus and Gaia and wife of the Oceanus, Tethys, encompasses the whole of the magical universe we live in.
Enchanted from an early age by the strength of this Titan, her restlessness, her colours, her multiple facets and fluidity, I let her travel me across the world on magical voyages. The colours of the Mediterranean flow in my blood and nurture my soul, my dreams and creativity.
Capturing the essence of this Sea is unattainable, but still, I had to take the challenge… A piece of sea, like you collect a shell on the beach to keep the memory and share the song…
That’s how I started in 2000 to sing the song of the sirens with fire, beeswax, damar and pigments.
Encaustic, is an Ancient Greek technique used to paint the ships for the long voyages, sculptures, the portraits of Fayum in Egypt and the first Byzantine icons. It is a technique in which, one is lost and flows in an unparalleled choreography of fire, melted wax and colour. In the vastness of the blues, the turquoises and the greens, I learned to read Iliad and Odyssey and followed in the footsteps of ancient gods, heroes and poets and like Ulysses on my way to Ithaca, I continue the voyage following Kavafis counsel…
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.

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