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“Our Women Painters 1” exhibition met with art lovers

Lect. Murat Karaova's "Women Painters 1" exhibition at Istanbul Gelisim University Gelisim Art Gallery met with art lovers after the opening ceremony. Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Gunay, The curator of the exhibition, stated that the "Women Painters 1" exhibition will continue and will be held as a series.

Istanbul Gelisim University Gelisim Art Gallery activities continue. Hosting valuable works of art in the 2022-2023 academic year, IGU attracts great attention from art lovers. The opening ceremony of the "Women Painters 1" exhibition of Lect. Murat Karaova from Istanbul Gelisim Vocational School, who participated in many national and international solo and group exhibitions with his works and made figurative works by taking social issues as themes, was held.

 “We have positive discrimination towards art”

Prof. Dr. Bahri Şahin, Rector of Istanbul Gelisim University, who made the opening speech of the ceremony, stated: “We think that art is one step above other fields of science. We have positive discrimination towards art. A country without art has no civilization. Art is the measure of civilization. I want to combine the technical field with the artistic field. These are not separate things. In our university, we have many departments and programs related to art. We have industry around us. We actually want to bring art into them. We want to bring together engineering sciences, technical sciences, social sciences and artistic sciences with industry.”

The exhibition will continue as series

The exhibition features women painters who have left their mark on the art of painting from the Ottoman period to the Republican period and up to the present. Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Gunay, curator of the exhibition:  “A question may arise in the minds of whether we have only 11 female painters from the Ottoman period to the present day. Of course not. We have many women painters. As the name of the exhibition suggests, it is the exhibition “Our Women Painters 1”. The exhibition will pursue as series as Our Women Painters 2 and Our Women Painters 3. We look forward to the next series with great interest. I congratulate our lecturer, Murat Karaova.”

Lect. Murat Karaova, who has 11 works in the exhibition, said, “My biggest goal is to inspire my students. Everything in life that is described as beautiful, high quality and good has passed great responsibilities and great tests. Our women artists, who lived in their time, made good things happen in this country after many difficulties and struggles. We are carrying out scientific and artistic studies in order to take this country one step further. In this context, our students, who are the future of this beautiful country, must work hard.”