New art is coming to town! The capital is getting ready to welcome one more exhibition this month as Alpha CK Art Gallery hosts Malvina Middleton’s new solo exhibition titled Codes of Life.

Opening on Friday, this will be the artist’s first presentation in Cyprus after many years and exhibitions abroad.

“Malvina Middleton deconstructs the messages that comprise the essence and basis of the grand mystery of Life in her latest series of artwork,” write the organisers. “Hope and agony, which visibly envelop the very organic survival of everything living on our planet, are hereby transformed into art. Through the transparency of shadows and rays, through the aesthetics of hollow and curved forms of glass, through the Echo of Symmetry which has crystallised as if re-written, beneath the asymmetrical and seemingly chaotic, there exists and thrives the ever-alive, the forever living.”

Commenting on the artist’s work, Antonios Sofokleus Evangelinos writes in the exhibition catalogue: “They balance between Sorrow and Hope, Agony and Salvation. Glass forms which speak a brilliant sharp language, smooth and shiny, shadowy and sharp, but oftentimes semi-transparent, a balancing act on glass, a magical, mystical heartfelt tongue. Symbolic hexagonal forms that abound at the echo of an unknown vital riddle”.

Middleton has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, the United States, Spain, Austria, Egypt, Italy, France, Germany and the Czech Republic. She participated in the 2nd Biennale of Young Artists in Croatia (1995) and at the 19th and 20th Alexandria Biennales (1997 and 1999 respectively) in Egypt where her work was recognised with an Achievement Award at both. Her work can be found in the collections of the Cyprus State Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Central Bank of Cyprus, the Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt, and in numerous private collections. Now, ready to present her latest art pieces she returns to her home country with an exhibition that will last until May 27.

Codes of Life

Solo exhibition by artist Malvina Middleton. May 12-27. Alpha C.K. Gallery, Nicosia. Opening night: 7.30pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 4pm and 7pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel:22-751325. www.ackgallery.com