Opy Zouni is honored with the first prize at the Impreza International Biennale in Ukraine

In 1989, Opy Zouni receives the first prize at the Impreza Engraving Biennale in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankvisk. It is the culmination of a long international career with exhibitions in Greece and famous venues abroad, such as her retrospective exhibition at the International Cultureel Centrum in 1986. Opy Sarpaki-Zouni was born in Cairo in 1941 and died in Athens in 2008. She studied painting in her hometown and at the Athens School of Fine Arts, with Giannis Moralis. Her painting, initially expressionist and abstract, moves towards geometric abstraction during the Dictatorship years, as the painter focuses on light, color, perspective, and movement, and progresses from painting to installations. "The artist is a creator of image, and our era is the era of "image." He may have discarded depiction, but not the image. What [the artist] creates is his own image, the description of his imagination and his thinking, which is always relevant to the present," she said.