Heidi Trautmann

1094: Emin Çizenel - Unofficial Teams Exhibition at ArtRooms Girne 04 June –
6/4/2021


By Heidi Trautmann

 

The ArtRooms in Girne could finally open their doors to the public again, after one and a half years, to a new era, the post-pandemic era, and they opened with a very high-level artist, with Emin Çizenel.

I had a preview yesterday on June 03, and I had the chance to meet Emin Çizenel next to his old teacher from Limassol, the short story writer and poet Mehmet Kansu, who praised him as a very good student, always very properly and elegantly dressed, well behaved and polite. I learnt some stories, learnt that he, Emin, was goal keeper for his football team which he stopped being when he went to study in Istanbul. And right there in the entrance of the ArtRooms, is his big installation of his football team with him in front as the goal keeper.

 

Perhaps, I would say, he is also the goal keeper in a metaphorical sense, goal keeper for his country, the island of Cyprus, the fighter for peace and truth with his art. Over the many years, I have often thought about his way to approach these themes in each exhibition I have attended and I want to repeat some remarks I made in two reviews which describe his philosophy and his way of working:

“…..I like his playfulness, with a sometimes ironic twist, and the joy he takes in experimenting, seeking the adventure in the field of art. In my opinion it is not the big thing he is after but the small sign hidden like a needle in a hay stack. When you regard his large paintings, it is a small imprint, a circle or half-moon that catches your eye…. “

Or:

“….. Emin Cizenel plays with the structure of his paintings, I am sure there is nothing he has not tried, photography, soot of a candle, tapestry, whatever makes a shape or gives off some colourful meaning, is useful…..”

 

In the current exhibition he predominantly uses triangles formed by different materials brought together to make ‘masses’, I interprete it as population, rooftops, heads of citizens, tree tops of a forest, and there are single differently coloured ones for those who make a difference….

Emin Çizenel wants us to think, to find our own conclusions.

 

The exhibition will be open to visit from 4th of June. The exhibition is open every day from 12.00-21.00 except Tuesday. Information: 0542 856 7077.

 

 


Emin Çizenel
Emin Çizenel


Emin Çizenel
Emin Çizenel


Football team, talking to his old teacher
Football team, talking to his old teacher


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A friend Hikmet Uluçam
A friend Hikmet Uluçam


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