Arestís Stasí was born in 1940 in Limassol

Limassol

Limassol is the second-largest city in Cyprus, with a population of 228,000 . It is the largest city in geographical size, and the biggest municipality on the island. The city is located on Akrotiri Bay, on the island's southern coast and it is the capital of Limassol District.Limassol is the...

, Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 and spent his first years in the village of Platres

Plátres

-References:*Dubin, M.S. The Rough Guide to Cyprus. Rough Guides Ltd. pp. 552. ISBN 978-1843534563*Hellander, P.D. Cyprus. Lonely Planet Publications. pp. 224. ISBN 978-1740591225-External links:* * *...

 in the Troödos mountains. He studied monumental painting, sculpture and restoration in Florence and Rome.

In the 1960s and 1970s he dedicated himself in the restoration of ancient monuments in Cyprus including the heavily damaged (due to fire) ikonostasis of the Saint Lazarus Cathedral in Larnaca

Larnaca

Larnaca, is the third largest city on the southern coast of Cyprus after Nicosia and Limassol. It has a population of 72,000 and is the island's second largest commercial port and an important tourist resort...

.

Arestís Stasí has exhibited his art works in more than ten personal exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.

Sculptures, mosaics, paintings and other works of art of Arestís Stasí can be seen in various places including the monastery

Monastery

Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...

 of Machairas

Machairas Monastery

Machairas is a historic monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary located about 40 km from the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia. It lies at an altitude of about 900 m and was founded at the end of the 12th century close to the current village of Lazanias.- History :Legend has it that an unknown hermit...

, Nicosia

Nicosia

Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

, Paphos

Paphos

Paphos , sometimes referred to as Pafos, is a coastal city in the southwest of Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: Old Paphos and New Paphos. The currently inhabited city is New Paphos. It lies on the Mediterranean coast, about west of the...

, Limassol

Limassol

Limassol is the second-largest city in Cyprus, with a population of 228,000 . It is the largest city in geographical size, and the biggest municipality on the island. The city is located on Akrotiri Bay, on the island's southern coast and it is the capital of Limassol District.Limassol is the...

, the villages of Kyperounta

Kyperounta

Kyperounta is a village in Cyprus. It lies at an attitude of 1130-1300 meters and it is the third highest village in Cyprus. With a population in approximately 1,500 it can be called the head-village of Pitsilia. The village took its name from the plant Cyperus rotundus . Kyperounda was...

 and Omodhos

Omodhos

Omodos is a village in the Troödos Mountains of Cyprus. It is also located in the Limassol District of Cyprus and is 80 kilometers from the city of Nicosia. The village produces a lot of wine and holds a wine festival every August. You can visit a 17th Century stone built monastery via a...

.

He recently installed a museum of ancient metallurgy in the village of Katydata

Katydata

Katydata is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located 2 km north of Linou....

 in the Solea

Soleá

"Soleares" is one of the most basic forms or "palos" of Flamenco music, probably originated around Cádiz or Seville in Andalusia, the most southern region of Spain...

 valley, close to the Skouriotissa

Skouriotissa

Skouriotissa is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus and the site of the former Skourotissa mines. Today the area is largely uninhabited with only 8 people remaining in the village....

 (Foukasa) mine, entailing scenographic reproductions of ancient mine galleries from the early and late copper age

Copper Age

The Chalcolithic |stone]]") period or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic/Æneolithic , is a phase of the Bronze Age in which the addition of tin to copper to form bronze during smelting remained yet unknown by the metallurgists of the times...

 and the roman period.

Arestís Stasí has been participating as an art consultant in many governmental and private committees and is an active member of the Cypriot Artist Society (E.KA.TE.).

External links

• http://www.gallerykypriakigonia.com.cy/artists_arestis_stasi.htm
• http://www.cyprus-art.com/archive_exhibitions/cyprus_corner_gallery.htm