Two academic artists from Turkey in Feridun Isiman’s Studio 110 Nicosia

Art Exhibition from May 06 – 20: Prof. Dr. Meliha Yilmaz and Prof. Dr. Meltem Demirci Katiranci

By Heidi Trautmann

Feridun Isiman is a traveller in art, his art, painting and music, and thus he meets other artists and their country and culture. It was his dream of long ago to establish an art colony in Cyprus to receive artists from everywhere to exchange knowledge and art ideas. Now it is he who travels to art colonies and international workshops where he is a well-known and most welcome guest and member of the international art family.

If we don’t move, we experience nothing and I would not meet all these fine artists on my road through the arts, he says. He is right, communication and exchange of ideas is most important, otherwise we start to copy each other.

On one of his last travels Feridun met with the two women artists whose works we are going to see until May 20.

Prof. Dr. Meliha Yilmaz and Prof. Dr. Meltem Demirci Katirancı are both from Ankara Gazi University, Department of Fine Arts, more or less of the same age, Yilmaz (1969 in Kastamonu) and Katiranci (1972 in Kirkuk/Irak). Both are giving us images about humanity, about human situations and spaces. Dr. Katiranci about families, women in their living spaces, very powerful with colours, bright colours and with light, bringing light on desolation. Geometric divisions to give light a direction.

Dr. Yilmaz uses the spaces of cave dwellers with their rock drawings interrelated with today, strong daring colours.

HE Mustafa Akinci had opened the exhibition and he had good talks with the artists.

I was not able to be at the opening but visited Feridun and his wife Dervişe the following morning and we took our time to talk about the deeper sense of the arts.