NEU to host a series of weekly art exhibitions
ART and sculpture from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey goes on show this week on the Near
East University (NEU) campus in a continuing series of weekly exhibitions.
Kyrgyz sculptors Nurlan Kebek Uulu and Isken Abdaliyev present 43 busts of Turkish scientists, including 2015 joint Nobel prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist Professor Aziz Sancar. Turkish intellectuals, politicians and the five winners of NEU Alasya awards also feature in the “hall of fame” on show at the NEU Hospital gallery.
A second show of 45 works in acrylics and mixed media by five Turkish academics launched concurrently at 9am on Wednesday.
Meanwhile more artists from Kazakhstan also went on show this week, headed by Amanat Nazarkul, in a display of 40 works at the İrfan Günsel Congress Centre which may be viewed until Friday.
All of these latest works are lined up to join a growing collection to be housed in the university’s new Cyprus Museum of Modern Art which will open in November next year.
Museum director Mustafa Hastürk said: “Art lovers visiting our campus have a choice of seven galleries with constantly changing exhibitions. There is always something to see.”
An exhibition of artworks by himself and his students recently closed at the campus’s Atatürk Cultural Centre, during which he was awarded one of the five newly inaugurated Near East University Alasya Awards.
He added that many more international and local artists were set to go on show this year at the galleries on campus, sited at the Atatürk Culture and Congress Centre, İrfan Günsel Congress Centre, NEU Hospital and at the faculties of dentistry, communications and medicine.