grazerkunstverein

(Edition)

Old Town Street (towards Photo Net)

Maria Toumazou

2022

Maria Toumazou
Old Town Street (towards Photo Net), 2022

Pigment print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm
Edition: 10 + 3 AP
16 x 23,5 cm, unframed
Numbered and signed certificate
€ 375,00* (incl. VAT, excl. packing and shipping costs)

Old Town Street (towards Photo Net) depicts the expressive painting of a female nude displayed in a framer’s shop window and is layered with the reflection of Nicosia’s old town. Resembling the processing and the becoming of an image, the analog photograph was shot at a close distance to Photo Net, Toumazou’s local photography store, where her pictures are developed and printed. The photograph is part of a series of 26 pictures resulting from numerous walks through Toumazou’s hometown. The series appeared for the first time in R, C, the publication that accompanied RHYTHM, CITIZEN, Toumazou’s solo exhibition at Grazer Kunstverein in 2022. One of them is now available as an exclusive artist’s edition. 

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Maria Toumazou (b. 1989, Cyprus) is an artist and publisher based in Nicosia. Recent solo presentations include RHYTHM, CITIZEN, Grazer Kunstverein (2022); SCRAP B, Point Centre for Contemporary Art at Moufflon Bookshop, Nicosia (2022); Coil, Hot Wheels Athens (2021); and Fair-face Elysée, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia (2019), among others. Toumazou has participated in group exhibitions including SISTERHOOD, Streaming voices unifying energies, Angelo Plessas and P.E.T. Projects, Nicosia (2021); Touch Release, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2021); Hypersurfacing, NiMAC, Nicosia (2019); Soft stone documents, Municipal Arts Centre, Limassol (2017), among others. Neoterismoi Toumazou (Toumazou’s former collective with Orestis Lazouras and Marina Xenofontos) was invited as a special guest to the Cyprus Pavilion at Biennale Arte 2017, Venice, curated by Jan Verwoert. She was a guest student at Städelschule, Frankfurt, after completing her studies at Goldsmiths College, London, and the Glasgow School of Art.