By Heidi Trautmann

The small Art Gallery at Rüstem’s Bookstore in the Old City of Nicosia is custom made for this kind of exhibitions, just perfect, an inspiring place and I am sure they will surprise us in many ways in the future.

The exhibits featured in the gallery are from private collections, paintings, sketches, signed prints, exhibition posters and catalogues with important names of modern Western art such as Chagall, Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Guillaume Cousteau, Abidin Dino, Jean Metzinger and Rodin.

It was a cooperation of Arucad and Rüstem, with dear Oya Silbery and Halil Duranay curating the event and the exhibition was planned to be open until 28 August but, as I spoke to Halil, they might consider to leave it open for another week as so many people have shown interest to see the exhibition. The enormous heat of over 40°C of the last weeks has made many people avoid going into the City of Nicosia during the day. So please contact them before you plan to go.

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The exhibition brings back memories for me personally because with these artists and their works, their philosophy, I grew up.

Collecting art was very common in those days for people travelling in and to Europe; it was considered a duty to send the young folk to Europe for educational purposes with France and Italy, also Germany being the favourite countries, as the arts in those days of the artists mentioned here, underwent a great change, aggressive and following new ways of executing and understanding art.