Hakan Daloğlu’s solo exhibitions titled “Faust” and “The Barbarity of Civilization and Don Quijote”, exclusively prepared for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, will be opened by the Minister of Economy and Energy, Olgun Amcaoğlu, on Wednesday, September 7 at the Near East University Hospital Exhibition Hall. Daloğlu’s “Anatolian Civilizations” and “Theological and Political Caprichos” exhibitions will be opened on Friday, September 9 at 17.00 by the Minister of Interior Ziya Öztürkler at the Near East University Atatürk Culture and Congress Center Exhibition Hall.
Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts will open four solo exhibitions this week. Two of the exhibitions, which will bring together 161 works exclusively prepared by Hakan Daloğlu for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, will be opened by the Minister of Economy and Energy Olgun Amcaoğlu on Wednesday, September 7 at 17.00 at the Near East University Hospital Exhibition Hall. The exhibitions “Faust” and “The Barbarity of Civilization and Don Quijote” will be open to visitors free of charge until 22 September.
The other two solo exhibitions of Hakan Daloğlu, which will meet with art lovers, will be opened on Friday, September 9 at 17:00 by the Minister of Interior Ziya Öztürkler at the Near East University Atatürk Culture and Congress Center Exhibition Hall. Daloğlu’s “Anatolian Civilizations” and “Theological and Political Caprichos” exhibitions can also be visited free of charge until September 23.
There are many different details together in the works of artist Hakan Daloğlu exclusively prepared for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts. The artist’s work shows the contrast between images reflecting gothic literary and artistic traditions, and other images related to the remnants of colonialism and social-political issues. Ox, horse and bull skulls with minotaur references, which are among Daloğlu’s frequently used metaphors, symbolize a common reflection of the ancient Ionian, Greek and Hispanic Mediterranean cultures that left deep marks on the geography.
Influenced by German expressionism, the artist reflects the message “time flies, don’t forget that you will have to die, remember death” in all of his works.
Who is Hakan Daloglu?
Born in 1971 in Ankara, Hakan Daloğlu developed himself in painting, Near Eastern Mythology and art history by working with Master Architect, Painter and Sculptor Mükremin Mungan in 1987. Later, he graduated from the Painting Department of Zafer Gençaydın Workshop in 1994, Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts. Continuing his education life without a break, Daloğlu completed his master’s degree and went to the USA in 1998 and studied Academic English and Short American Stories at Marymount College in New York. Also, he carried out research on images of violence in painting and German expressionist art at the New York Metropolitan, M.O.M.A, Guggenheim, Whitney American Museums. In 2003, he completed her thesis titled “Sufficiency in Art, Images of Violence in Painting: Cultural Violence and Anti-Aesthetic Structure” at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Social Sciences Institute Painting Department. He continues his studies at the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts.
