“Kusurlu
Güzelliğe
Övgü / Tribute to Imperfect Beauty” - - - 31 May – 04
June, 2021
By
Heidi Trautmann
To
get back to the arts after so many months of isolation, to meet with art
friends, was a deep pleasure in itself and it was the 12th member
exhibition by the Ceramists Association I have been following for many years. I
have hardly missed one of their exhibitions. Here some links to the past
history to tell you about the beginnings…
http://www.heiditrautmann.com/category.aspx?CID=2568812363#.YLW2U6gzaUk
http://www.heiditrautmann.com/category.aspx?CID=6114534834#.YLXC8KgzaUk
http://www.heiditrautmann.com/category.aspx?CID=7336746377#.YLXFrqgzaUk
Last
night, on 31 May 2021, at the Ismet Güney Art Centre in Nicosia, it rather
looked like the Night of the Association of Masks, but it did not disturb the
happy mood of the big crowd of artists and art lovers. The interest in this
year’s exhibition was great, its opening had been postponed several times due
to the pandemic, hopefully it is the beginning of a fresh start for the art scene
in general.
Semral Öztan, the
President of the Association, and Jale Refik Rogers, Member of Parliament, were
opening the exhibition with words of encouragement. The situation for artists
is very difficult in these hard times. You could see it from the titles the
artists have given their work, for example… Corona, Memories, Complicated
Lives, Depth of Life, Trauma, Sadness, Courage and Integrity, Balance,
Meditation, etc. …
Feelings expressed with
the medium clay in different techniques. Very good works.
The
participating 16 artists with altogether 46 artworks are:
Semral
Öztan, Hasan Eminağa, Mine Korudağ, Özge Yücesoy, Eser Keçeci, Mümine Özdemirağ
Yağli, Bedia Kale, Hasan Saydam, Hayal Dimililer, Özge Refik Kutsay, Sinem
Saydam, Nergül Gezer Dündar, Özlem Kul Durmaz, Ahmet Kahveci, Yener Doğan, Özlem
Kul Durmaz.
The
Ismet Güney Art Centre is a wonderful place for exhibitions of this sort as it
offers ample room not only on its beautiful walls of the two wide halls but
also for stands to position the ceramic objects on, so the guests could freely
move around them.
The
exhibition will be open only until 04 June, very short, but I hope that many
people, especially young people, can come and get an idea how beautiful this
art discipline is and that there are no limits to imagination and visions.