About
Anna Kiparis is a painter currently residing and working in London as a Global Talent in the UK. With an architectural background, Anna engages with space, reconstructing it from works of literary art and recreating it in a series of paintings. As both an architect and artist, she has collaborated with MMOMA, Pratt Institute, NY, London Metropolitan University, Compostela Summer Program, Santiago de Compostela, Theatre of Nations, Moscow, and the Sao Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil. Anna's work has received prestigious recognition, including the UNI Award and the Johan Huizinga Peace Prize from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Her manifesto-driven works delve into contemporary illustration and religious symbolism, providing profound insights into societal narratives and cultural identities.
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At the heart of Anna's paintings lies literary works of magical realism, as a source of trans confessional patterns that can balance the reader's mind on the verge of reality and reflection. The Author possesses an incredible power of imagination in designing physical spaces created by men and left abandoned. One of them is a palace occupied by cows from The Autumn of The Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Once, a dictator lived in the palace, terrorizing the city. He kept people in such fear that they could not enter the palace even after his death. Nature slowly took hold of it: cows, as the rightful masters of the place abandoned by humans, entered through the open doors and leisurely chewed on moss-covered drapes as if delaying the onset of change. The animals, whose behaviour patterns are always refined and ritualized, may appear chaotic and primitive to us. Cows' behaviour, regarded as a pattern of time, with their swarming figures, chewing, and shooing flies away, translates the experience of duration contrary to the settled drapes; the time parameter operates as the primary means to appropriate the experience from the imagined space.

The setting of the abandoned palace, its curtains drawn, and the cows meandering in semidarkness suggest that the viewer should contemplate the liminal space, a realm of anticipation where unexpressed emotions dissolve into nonexistence, much like they are concealed by a fabric, locked within the chambers of an empty palace — vast expanses of human hope for miracles, caged between war and peace, violence and love, dictatorship and freedom. This is a space of anticipation, a portal akin to what Bachelard suggests regarding the home, where reality is capable of holding us in a sense of the uncertainty of the present moment sustained by memories. Behind the text, as if behind the drapery thrown over tables and couches, crystal chandeliers, and mirrors, we keep our experienced emotions and recollections deeply embedded in Anna's paintings.
Current Work
By the end of 2024, Anna is working on a monumental series dedicated to «The Autumn of the Patriarch» by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, exploring the theme of the cow as a transcultural symbol.
The first three works are titled «The Last Supper» and reflect the Christian narrative about the appearance of a prophet and the significance of survival. The images narrate the activities of cows in various rooms of the palace until one emerges onto the balcony, becoming a symbol for the people, like a prophet proclaiming their freedom. If the animal reaches the balcony, no one is alive; the dictator will no longer hold people in fear.
Read the fragment from The Autumn of the Patriarch
Prints
You can choose a high-quality print of the artwork available or request the original canvas.
Please select the one you love:
The Last Supper, Bedroom
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Fine quality printed copy of The Last Supper Series
50x50 cm, framed
The Last Supper, Office
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Fine quality printed copy of The Last Supper Series
50x50 cm, framed
The Last Supper, Parlor
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Fine quality printed copy of The Last Supper Series
50x50 cm, framed
Cow Grazing on Red Curtain
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Fine quality printed copy of the Cow Grazing on Curtains Series
50x50 cm, framed
Cow Grazing on White Curtain
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Fine quality printed copy of the Cow Grazing on Curtains Series
50x50 cm, framed
White Series 1/2
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Fine quality printed copy of the White Series
40x60 cm, framed
White Series 2/2
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Fine quality printed copy of the White Series
60x50 cm, framed
Events & Exhibitions
Over the course of a year working in London, Anna has held one solo exhibition and several group shows:
8 June
Solo Show
Works on display: The Last Supper series
10 MAY — 16 MAY 2024
Group Show
Works on display: White Series
11 May
Artist In Conversation: Anna Kiparis
25 APRIL — 4 MAY 2024
Group Show
Works on display: Seraphim Series
12 JAN — 21 JAN 2024
Works on display: Passion of Cows Series
30 NOV — 9 DEC 2023
Works on display: Passion of Cows Series
30 OCT 2023
Works on display: Passion of Cows, The Last Supper Series
16 SEP 2023
Works on display: Passion of Cows, The Last Supper Series
Contact Anna Kiparis:
cowonbalcony@gmail.com
Hampstead,
London
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