Marble Art Ltd

Marble Art Ltd

Lucien Rizos

Photospace Gallery
37 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington

6 July - 3 August 2024

Opening Saturday 6th July, 11.30am-1.30pm

Photospace Gallery is proud to have shown exhibitions by Lucien Rizos since 2007. It's fair to say these exhibitions have taken varied forms ranging from conventional framed black & white photographs to installations of large colour prints, documents and ephemera (like this one), as well as video installation.

There are a limited number of 'Marble Arts Ltd' photo books available for sale at the gallery.

Marble Art Ltd. was the business established 1957 in Wellington by John Fotiadis, the uncle of Lucien Rizos, who in 1951emigrated from Romania, through Greece, to New Zealand. The business was a manufacturer of souvenirs and objet d’art for the Kiwi home. 
 
In 1977 John Fotiadis returned to Romania and built a factory to supply these products to a European market.

This exhibition concerns a Marble Art Ltd. catalogue printed in Trig-Jiu Romania, that documents wares from chess sets and lamps to coffee tables, and draw upon motifs from many civilisations.

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