Artist Information:
Asik Mene
Nicosia,
Cyprus
Member Since: Feb 2004
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Artist Statement:
Strokes of instinct
By Jane Walker
“I WANT to give something back
to Larnaca.” Turkish Cypriot
artist Asik Mene was
determined to hold his first
personal exhibition in the
south in Larnaca because it is
his birthplace.
“Although I was born here,” he
says, “as things are, I cannot
choose to die here – and that
is the tragedy of so many
Cypriots today.”
We went to look for his
earliest visual experiences in
the old town along the sea
front, as he remembered a
rather wild and free time when
the children belonged to
everyone and yet nobody’s
parents ever knew where they
were.
“I want to pay Larnaca back,”
he said.
Larnaca has changed so much
that after 30 years’
separation in the north that
Asik Mene can hardly recognise
it. Inevitably Mene has
changed too, as he is nearly
50 now and an international
painter at the height of his
powers and with many personal
exhibitions behind him –
including years of annual
exhibitions in Istanbul.
If you walk into the
Heliotropio Gallery, where the
paintings are already hanging,
the first word that comes to
mind is “versatile”.
If you are not familiar with
his paintings you may...
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Strokes of instinct
By Jane Walker
“I WANT to give something back to Larnaca.” Turkish Cypriot artist Asik Mene was determined to hold his first personal exhibition in the south in Larnaca because it is his birthplace.
“Although I was born here,” he says, “as things are, I cannot choose to die here – and that is the tragedy of so many Cypriots today.”
We went to look for his earliest visual experiences in the old town along the sea front, as he remembered a rather wild and free time when the children belonged to everyone and yet nobody’s parents... |
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