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The successful Cypriot artist Penelope Constantinou is participating for the third time at an  International exhibitions in Paris. 
This time she exhibits at "ART CAPITAL" which takes place in the prestige Grand Palais from the 19-22 February 2025. 
The exhibition is under the auspices of the president of the Republic of France Mr. Emmanuel Macron and it welcomes 40,000 visitors every year. 
So is rightly established as the biggest presentation of artists in France. 
More than 2,000 artists French and International are presenting their work. "Art Capital" is hosting from 2006 the exhibitions of the 4 historical Salons of Paris. 
These are Salon Comparison, Salon des ARTISTES Francais, Salon des Artistes Independants and Salon dessin picture a l'eau. 
Penelope is exciting at Salon des Artistes Independants and as she says "I am very proud that my name as Cypriot Artist will be amongst the names of the Artists who exhibited at this historical Salon from 1884 till today."
Penelope Constantinou participates at many International exhibitions in countries like France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, USA. 
With her participation she promotes Cyprus and it's Art amongst many successful artists in the International cultural world. 
Penelope was also awarded with the Leonardo Da Vinci Award in Florence Italy and with Andrea Mantegna Award In Mantua, Italy.
Her first participation in Paris took place in October 2017 through the Italian Gallery that represents her, at the Carousel du Louvre, where important artists participate and thousands of people visit it every time.  
There she came into contact with many important artists and galleries and met for the first time the Society of Independent Artists, Société des Artistes Indépendants who have since then invited her to take part with them in the Art Capital International Exhibition that takes place every February, in the International Exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre and at Cannes. 
The work she presented was the head of an athlete, a statue found in Cyprus and figures standing surrealistically on his crowned head thus giving the idea of ​​the continuation of History and culture.
With the same gallery, in January 2022, she takes part in the International exhibition Salon International d'Art Contemporain "art3f" in Paris, which every year attracts thousands of art lovers.  
Internationally renowned gallery owners and established artists from all over the world meet in Paris to present their latest works of art to the world of Art. She participates in it with the "Karyatida", an extraordinary work,  a symbol of the ancient civilization that emits not only the Light of the ancient Greek spirit and beauty but also the message of the identity or rather the recognition of the identity of the cultural heritage of every civilization on Earth.
This year she continues her presence in Paris at "ART CAPITAL" the largest Art Salon in Europe with one of her works, from the "Muses Create a New Brilliant World" series.  
As Mrs. Constantinou told us, "I am very proud that my Muses will travel to Paris  at Art Capital, conveying to everyone the wish for a New Brilliant  World".
The Salon des Artistes Indépendants was founded in 1887 after repeated refusals to exhibit pioneering and stylistically revolutionary artists at the official academic Salon of French Artists. 
The Impressionists, Fauves, Post-Impressionists, Cubists and the great avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century passed through the halls of the Salon of Independent Artists, exhibiting their works, for at least three decades until World War I. 
All the Modernism of the countries of Europe found a seat in its spaces which were in selected buildings of Paris. 
Art collectors and dealers went there to find and acquire the works of the great talents of recent times.
Penelope Constantinou, painter and portraitist by, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Italy. 
Two years after her studies in 1987 she moved to Florida in the USA where she lived until 2005 when she returned to Cyprus. 
She maintains her Art Studio/Gallery “Penelope Art Gallery” in Nicosia, Armenias 23c since 2015. 
She has more than 30 individual exhibitions to her credit and has taken part in many group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.
Her works can be found in many countries of the world. She has also been awarded abroad.
With her art, Penelope aims to bring about aesthetic change to the viewer and to elevate him spiritually. 
She is inspired by Life and Elan Vital, the spiritual force, which exists in Man and his potential to pose and solve every problem of survival of Humanity in the course of conquering the Physical Universe by elevating life, civilization and culture in "Infinity". 
Art, through aesthetics, has the ability to change life for the better and thus create a New Brilliant World. 
A World that truly befits and vindicates Humanity.  Her works are divided into several series such as "Search for Freedom", "Infrared" "Oxygen" "Spirituality" "On my Soul's walls" "The Muses create a New Shining World" "History".