Pafos Live 19 June 2024
CARTOON EXHIBITION & BOOK PRESENTATION BY PINN ON THE GREEN LINE
Neapolis University, Pafos
19 June - 7pm
Neapolis University Pafos will host a Cartoon Exhibition and book presentation by Pinn on the Green Line on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, at 7pm.The book includes an introductory text by philologist Stelios Papantoniou on the creation of the Green Line and photographs by photojournalist Andreas Manolis. It consists mainly of cartoons by Pin. Most of them have been published in the newspaper Phileleftheros in different periods. For the exhibition and the book "Green Line" various lines have been painted green inside the cartoons. They all refer to the problems and dramatic developments that followed the drawing of the Green Line. The texts in the book and the report are in Greek and English.
The exhibition includes cartoons and accompanying English and Greek texts with the sections defined in the book. • British Bases • Turkish invasion • The control of the great powers in the region • Discord among the Greeks of Cyprus • United Nations • Settlement plans, • Famagusta as a bargaining chip • Relations between Cyprus and Greece • Opening of barricades • European Union and Cyprus • Natural gas (EEZ of Cyprus).
The exhibition will be addressed by Dr. George Georgis, Professor at Neapolis University, and Dr. Sotos Voskarides, President of the Association of Cypriot Cartoonists, Alekos Michaelides, publisher, bookseller, and Mrs. Roula Malli, lawyer, will talk about Pin's book and work.
Green Line
The Green Line was first created on December 30, 1963, when the first intercommunal riots broke out. It was called the Green Line because the then commander of the British forces in Cyprus, who were called to be the neutral overseers of the truce, Major General Peter Young, drew it with green pencil on the map of Nicosia. At first the Green Line concerned only Nicosia, later, after 1974, as a Ceasefire Line or as a Buffer Zone, it runs from east to west for a length of 300 km. the whole of Cyprus, separating the northern, occupied by Turkish troops part where a "state" recognized only by Turkey was created by the Turkish Cypriots, from the southern free part of the Republic of Cyprus.
Petros Papapetrou (Pin) – CV
Caricaturist for the newspaper Phileleftheros since 1987. His cartoons and sketches have been used in book illustrations, training seminars, T-shirts, TV shows, advertising campaigns and cartoons. He has published five books of his cartoons. He has taken part in various international and domestic
cartoon exhibitions and won various awards and honorary distinctions in Cyprus and abroad. He is also a professional graphic designer. In 1980 he created a Graphic Arts Studio in Nicosia and in 2012 the Pinn Cartoon and Sketch Workshop.
