Glyn Hughes 1931 - 2014

45 Venice Biennale together with other five artists. Glyn Hughes’ last memories of Savva are from 1967, their last contact being in July of that year: I saw Savva in the street late one evening on his way to Apophasis tavern. I told him that I wanted to invite a few friends to his place for my birthday on the 6th evening. Being his usual self, he didn’t reply as if to say, ‘OK’ and he tells me that he is working on a couple of new works with new shapes and colours that he did not use before. He said that one of them he did not want to exhibit because it was too phallic (although he liked it nevertheless) and he wanted me to keep it as a present for my birthday. [...] The painting was way ahead. It was very pop almost Americanized with electric orange background and a huge phallic shape that was already appearing in my paintings of those times. However, such simplicity I would have reached... if I ever did... thirty years later... not counting my seventies period, which had the absolute simplicity of Savva’s last thoughts but not his colour. Perhaps, Savva felt that he had no time to waste and he cut a long story short. 56 This colourful phallic painting was Savva’s last gift to Hughes. Εικόνα 4 . Χριστόφορος Σάββα, 6|Ιουλίου χ.π. Γκλυν (Χρόνια Πολλά) , 1967, λάδι σε καμβά, 80x126εκ. Δώρο του Χριστόφορου Σάββα στον Γκλυν Χιουζ για τα γενέθλιά του. Φωτογραφία του Χρίστου Αβρααμίδη. Ίδρυμα Γκλυν Χιουζ. Figure 4 . Christoforos Savva, 6|July h.b. Glyn (Happy Birthday) , 1967, οil on canvas, 80x126cm Christoforos Savva’s birthday present to Glyn Hughes. Photo by Christos Avraamides. Glyn Hughes Foundation.