Hale Hülya Nurol, “Wings of peace”, 2016, oil on canvas, 50x80 cm. |
NAİF SANATÇILAR “BARIŞ”I RESMETTİLER
September 14 to December 18, 2016
John Lennon'ın “Imagine” şarkısının sözlerini yani “Hayal et bütün
insanların hayatı barış içinde yaşadığını…” temasını konu alan, “ImaginaïveS”
sergisinde Türkiye’den Hale Hülya Nurol, Şebnem Çamdalı, Sema Çulam ve Gülfidan Hitit
Biçer’in eserleri de yer alıyor.
Ü.K.- Dear Jacques Dupont, Musée international d’art naïf de Magog
(MIANM) team was working on an exhibition entitled as “ImaginaïveS” for a long
time. And now you are ready. Artists are personally invited to create an
original painting inspired by the lyrics of John Lennon’s song Imagine:
"imagine all the people, living life in peace...”. Why did you choose John
Lennon's “Imagine” Song. Could you tell au about your curatorial method?
J.D.- I’m a volunteer member of the Board of Administrators
from the MIANM (Musée international d’art naïf de Magog) since 3 years. Also somehow
in charge of communications, computer systems, photography, Public Relations
& Advertising, Web & Facebook (more than 4000 likes https://www.facebook.com/naifworld). In 2014, I put together REVIM14 (Rendezvous international à Magog),
an international Exhibition, totally organized online. 89 artists submitted
their candidacy; an international jury selected thirty of them for the
Exhibition. Then we held a contest on Facebook on all the paintings submitted (89).
We received short of ten thousand votes. And a Turkish artist, Nebahat Karatas
was the winner. Later, I have had the rare opportunity to visit Turkey and meet
with Miss Karatas to give her her Prize. I also met other local artists and one
rare generous person entirely dedicated to promote the art from Turkey, my now
estimated friend Ummuhan Eker Kazanç. A real network was build, ready to be put
to task.
One year later, I submitted to our Board a new
international project, IMAGINAIVES. Viewing the News every night on Television,
I suspected it was about time to revisit the lyrics from John Lennon song. And
it was before the refugee crisis! I became commissaire
for this special thematic project and worked on it on a semi daily basis since
then.
Using our rich network, we invited 36 women artists on
a personal basis to execute a new painting freely inspired by Lennon’s words
and peace concept.
I am not an expert on art. All my life I worked in
some kind of communication related activity, most of it as Director for Film &
Television. But I have a unique Museum in my town (Magog, Quebec, Canada) and I
wanted to give back some good vibes to my Community.
Şebnem Çamdalı, “Eternal Love”, 2016, oil on canvas, 80x60 cm. |
Ü.K.- Why and at what point did you decide to work with women naive
artists?
J.D.- Something told me we would have to hear
especially from women artists on this subject. A visceral choice and a somehow
difficult one to explain, even to some colleagues. But I can see now, with all
the paintings hanged on our wall, that it was a wise choice and a rare
opportunity to build a homogeneous artistic Collective based on Spirit and Kindness,
generously shared by outstanding people who do not know each other but are
strangely attuned. Women are healers, by choice or necessity; women artists are
beacons of hope. Naive women artists have no fear at all to face the truth, as
ugly as it is, and propose the shining light of their fantasy to spare us the
worst. I also knew some of their personal whereabouts, just enough to want to
know more about their feelings. I’m glad we took the risk. And I love and
respect very much all he artists who enroll in the project with enthusiasm and
great devotion to their form of art, which is not always truly understood and
appreciated for its own specific values and merits, just as it is, outside of
any comparison scheme.
Sema Çulam, “Dream and Carpe Diem”, 2016, oil on canvas, 45x120 cm. |
Ü.K.- How many women artists will exhibit their Works? Which countries
are represented in the exhibition?
J.D.- 34 artists from 18 countries. Only two of the
invited artists were unable to participate for Health reasons. Argentina ,
Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan,
Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey, UK + one Canadian
Artist (Barbara Sala) acting as host and Godmother.
Alexandre, Marion, FR
Amperidou, Sofia, GR
Bersee, Ale, AR
Breedveld, Ada, NL
Bruel-Rupp, Michèle, FR
Caetano, Luiza, PT
Camargo, Fatima, BR
Camdali, Sebnem, TR
Cavin, Nini, FR
Collins, Kate, UK
Çulam, Sema, TR
Dragan, Ana, RO
Fraga-Frénot,Christine, FR
Gutman, Debora, GE
Haize, Maria-Cristina, BR
Hassan, Naneh, IR
Hestu Wahyuni, Erica, ID
Hitit Bicer, Gulfidan, TR
Hulya Nurol, Hale, TR
Ishigami, Yoko, JP
Joaquim, Shila, BR
Jonsson-Harrison, Marie, AU
Kolodziej, Martha, PO
Leonis, Despoena, GR
Loquen, Claudine, FR
Mafucci, Lucilla, IT
Masiero, Alice, BR
Mohamadi, Fatemeh, IR
Papic, Lidia, AR
Sala, Barbara, CA
Souza, Ana-Denise, BR
Tajuddin, Eliza, MY
Tamanini, Everenice, BR
Worsoe, Lene, DK
Gülfidan Hitit Biçer, “Come, come whoever you are come”, 2016, oil on canvas, 50x60 cm. |
Ü.K.- Since you have decided to open up an exhibition with “PEACE” theme,
things are going terrible in the World especially in Near East. Dou you still
believe in PEACE? Isn’t it an UTOPIA that all the people are living in peace?
J.D.- Ideally, I would like to live in Theory, the
only country in the World where everything is possible!!!
I’m a pragmatist. Peace begins inside each of us and in
our immediate environment. Everything else we don’t control. Oh, not exactly:
on some occasions and in some privileged places (Canada is one of them, but
Turkey has a grey cloud upon her now) we can also freely vote, ask questions,
do crazy things in the street, etc..
“A dream you
dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality”
Yoko Ono Lennon
A dream you dream together is reality”
Yoko Ono Lennon
Ada Breedveld, “All children born in freedom”, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 60x80 cm. |
Ü.K.- Could you tell us about Turkish artists represented in the
exhibition?
J.D.- Two years ago, I have had the privilege to meet
three of them in their own environment: Sebnem Camdali, Nebahat Karatas and
Hayal Irtegün. Sema Çulam and Hale Hülya Nurol are only known to me from Facebook or
through UEK intermediary (!). I have published some of their works on the
Museum Facebook page, within a program of ours intended to let naïve artists
from the world be known, even if they do not belong to our Collection. I have
even played some intermediary role between one of them and an eventual buyer in
Brazil. I can also say that Sebnem is more than a virtual friend, as me and my
wife stay in her lovely place for a few days. And then, we really understood
the sources of her inspiration and the limitless scope of her imagination. The
fields of dream of Sema Çulam are the perfect illustration of a bountiful
country, so rich for her Land and her People. The whimsical characters of Hale
Nurol hide some serious questioning behind funny settings and a masterful
technique. Gulfidan Hitit Bicer from Kuşadası, at a young age, is digging deep
and thoroughly into what makes Turkish today, mixing traditions and modernity.
A huge task, made easy by a style of her own, authentically naïve and yet
surprising from one work to the other. The most evident paradox is that these
great Turkish naïve artists are not naïve at all, but have found their own way
to make this type of art more respected! Turkey seems to me as a very
productive country for naïve art, no longer cornered in remote countryside or
practiced by old people rooted to the past.
Maria-Cristina Haize, “Rêve de femme”, 2016, oil on
canvas, 55x46 cm.
|
Ü.K.- You have also planned other programmes together with the
exhibition. Do you have surprise for art lovers?
J.D.- One activity I’m proud of is made possible with
an arrangement with the organization IMAGINEPEACE headed by Yoko Ono, widow of
John Lennon. We have been accredited to operate a “Wish Tree (live tree)” inside the Exhibition, where visitors can
attach small labels with short Peace Wishes. At the end of the Exhibition, all
labels will be sent to New York Yoko’s Office. She then send them to Iceland
where she had a special Peace Tower build to receive all messages from the
world, accumulated since many years from museums around the world.
Later, during the three months of Exhibition, we will
gather messages from Facebook friends and write them down on the tree.
For having now seen real people visiting the Exhibition
and mentioning or writing down their feelings, I can tell you that the words
EMOTION and SURPRISE comes to the front more frequently. People ask us if
Exhibition will travel, here in Canada or abroad. They say it should. They say
it should remain an ensemble. It is true that the collective message is strong.
We will try to honor the comments. We also witness a broad reassessment of the
naïve art concept. Interesting!
ALSO: I have advised our Mayor, Miss Vicky May-Hamm,
to become a Mayor for Peace: http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/english/index.html
She will announce it during the opening, next Sunday.
We will also have a benefit-concert (Cellist, both
classic and Pop) inside the Exhibition on October 9, anniversary of John Lennon
Birth.
Local News and schools are very much interested by
this Exhibition turned multi facet event. We may have some more surprises.
Eliza Tajuddin, “Lullabies for peace - Dodoi si Dodoi ala saying”, 2016, oil on canvas, 40x100 cm. |
Ü.K.- My last question is related to politics. Dear Jacques you have been
to Turkey. You have many friends from Turkey and Near East. Canada represents
PEACE. As a Canadian citizen, could you tell us what Canadian people think
about things are going on in Near East?
J.D.- Geopolitical situation of Turkey, as perceived
in my country, Canada, is of some uncertainty. There is a feeling that anything
can happen, for the best or the worst. There is a big realignment of alliances
between countries, nowadays. Everything moves faster than usual. Risks are
getting bigger. Populations loose interest or control over their institutions.
Turkey is on a rope, balancing her act between East and West, democracy and
populism, tolerance or exclusion, and how could she do otherwise with her strategic,
geographic, historical, cultural position, so well personified by the Istanbul position.
And yet, this position is itself the most promising cradle for her population
and the rest of the World. Let it be, hopefully in the hands of Good Will
People.
Claudine Loquen, “Au café des joues rouges”, 2016, mixed technique, 73x54 cm. |
THE MUSEUM
M.I.A.N.M., (Musée international d’art naïf de Magog),
is the sole Canadian Visual Arts Museum dedicated exclusively to national and
international Naïve art. It is located in Magog, Quebec, an all-season Tourism
Destination, located 45 minutes from Montreal, very near the US border.
In 2014, the institution hosted a successful
international exhibition, REVIM14, when 29 artists from the world were selected
to exhibit by an international jury, among the 89 artists from 30 countries who
entered the contest. All of them, and more, are now part of a rich community of
Naïve Artists with whom we keep in touch. This ongoing and rich relationship
makes us feel confident that our next international exhibition, ImaginaïveS,
will be a new milestone.
FOR FURTHER INFO
info@artnaifmagog.com
www.facebook.com/naifworld
1-819-843-2099
Address: MIANM, 61, rue Merry Nord, Magog, (Quebec),
Canada J1X 2E7
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