By Heidi Trautmann

Veysi Soyer – who does not know him? The aesthet.  Mr. GoodMorningCyprus, greeting people with his meaningful photographs. A fantastic observer of society with a knowing smile on his face, a little ironic. A connoisseur in matters of the arts. ……and I am sure of many other things of life.

HE Mustafa Akinci and his wife Meral had come to witness the getting together of various art performers and opened dutifully the exhibition. They must be well informed of the contemporary art scene as I meet them at all exhibitions, festivals and music performances I go to; I pay my respect and I don't have the impression that the President is just doing his duty!

Art was in the air….with music, poetry, ceramic images, drawings and photography….in the beautiful courtyard of the Eaved House right in the centre of architectural witnesses of the Middle Ages. We had gathered there and listened to fine poetry by the poet Zeki Ali read by Ertaç Hazer. Zeki Ali was present, I know his poetry well, he and his poetry make part of my book Art and Creativity in North Cyprus, Volume II. Burcu Karagöz accompanied the recital on the cello, later she and Evren Karagöz entertained us with popular songs like Dance me to the end of love by Cohen ….and a second music group with Dr. Levent Soyer, Hüsnü Doğacan and Deniz Soyer …the Soyers obviously are a multi-talented family.

Veysi Soyer had in mind to show a rainbow of art forms reaching from the ancient times with ceramic sculptures by Rauf Ersenal….boats of the island’s ancestors arriving on the shores of Cyprus,  to drawings of today, his drawings, ironic scribbles on society, hieroglyphs of modern times and his photographs, images on a subconscious dream level. Some paintings by Tolga Özasil and Tugay A.Kader completed the range of the rainbow. 

Art, I believe that he thinks that way, is  to open oneself completely with high sensitivity to one's surroundings, to be a bowl to receive and send off again; to be receiving the timbres of music and poetry with your soul and body; to observe and understand what is visible to the eyes and beyond, to look behind the curtains. Art is not necessarily the practicing of an art discipline but the willingness to open up to it and listen to the undertones.

This art event was an event for all senses, an event of the fine undertones, not to admonish but to make one smile. 

The exhibition is still open till 06 May.