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EMU “Araf’ta Yaşam” Art Gallery Opened by Prime Minister Erhürman

EMU “Araf’ta Yaşam” Art Gallery Opened by Prime Minister Erhürman
Published Date: Friday, 5 October 2018

Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Rector’s Office has organized an art gallery exhibition for 2018-2019 Academic Year Opening titled “Araf’ta Yaşam” which is consist of the work of art of the EMU Art Collection Artists, on 28th September 2018, at 19:00, in Bedesten (Walled City – Lefkoşa). Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Prime Minister Tufan Erhürman, TRNC General Assembly Vice President Zorlu Töre, EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Necdet Osam, Vice Rectors, EMU-Center for Cyprus Studies (DAÜ-KAM) Art Coordinator and Exhibition Curator Zehra Şonya, academic and administrative personnel, artists, bureaucrats and the public were amongst the attendees of the event.

Zehra Şonya

“We Are Planning To Make A Museum”

The event begun with EMU Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education music concert. DAÜ-KAM Art Coordinator and Exhibition Curator Zehra Şonya made the opening speech of the event. Şonya stated that they would like to consolidate EMU and art even further and the art exhibition is a first for the university. Şonya mentioned that the title of the exhibition “Araf’ta Yaşam” stands for remaining in limbo and the artists had the opportunity to express the social problems we are facing in their own way. Şonya said, “We would like our exhibitions to become traditional and planning to make a museum that is worthy for the art of our island, with the valuable contribution of our artists in 4-5 years. We would like to thank all the artists and our Rector for their support of the art exhibition.”

Necdet Osam

“393 Work of Art to Meet With Public”

In his speech, EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Necdet Osam stated: “Exhibitions plays an important role for the harmonization of the university and public. For this reason, we decided to make the 2018-2019 Academic Year Opening with this art exhibition. We began collecting work of art a couple of years ago constitution of EMU and the number of work collected has reached to 393. All of these work of art are insured. However, these work of art that are kept in certain places needs to meet with the public. We require the support of the government in this sense. EMU needs necessary venues for opening these work of art to the public. We will constantly keep supporting art. On the other hand, we are proud to reach our aims on the world rankings in the area of academics. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the organization of this event.”

Tufan Erhürman

“EMU Proven Itself on World Rankings”

In his speech, TRNC Prime Minister Tufan Erhürman stated that he is very happy to be present at the opening of this exhibition as a member of EMU, and said: “It is not easy to remain on the limbo. Our art and artists are the factor for us breathing in comfort. Whenever it is said that we are under isolation, I remember our universities, scientists and artists. We see that EMU has significantly proven itself on the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. There was a great struggle for this and this struggle had been won. The number of universities, scientists and artists are so many in such a small population that these successes needs to combine under one umbrella and turn into a success story. We can prove our existence if we work more and join forces. I would like to thank EMU Rector’s Office, DAÜ-KAM and our artists who contributed to this exhibition.” After the speeches, the art exhibition which attracted intensive attention was open to tour synchronized with a cocktail.

30 Work of Art Presented

30 Work of Art are presented at “Araf’ta Yaşam” Exhibition. Until today, EMU has signed a protocol with a total of 22 artists and incorporated 393 work of art into the EMU Art Collection. The artists who contributed to the exhibition are; Arif Albayrak, Aşık Mene, Bahar Çıralı, Batu Gündal, Eser Keçeci Malyalı, Gökçe Keçeci, Gönen Atakol, Haidi Trauthman, Hüseyin Özinal, İnci Kansu, İsmet Tatar, Kemal B. Caymaz, Mehmet Ulubatlı, Mustafa Öztunç, Nilgün Güney, Nilüfer İnandım, Osman Keten, Serkan İlsever, Simge Uygur, Şenol Özdevrim, Taylan Oğuzkan and Türksal İnce.

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