CCA Lemba Studios Winter exhibition has opened on 17'th of December and so far the respond have been unprecedentedly. The group of artists who have been contributing to the exhibition have been getting valuable rebound. My work in the exhibition consists of 5 artifacts which I been working on since last September

THE ONE I STOLE FROM HEAVEN

Dervis Dervisoglu

I have no recollection of Heaven.

Probably because I was never meant to be there.

One morning

I was just

reborn again.

And this dead tree with its burned out fruits at its foot,

standing at the side of my bed.

It must have once stud up high with all its glory

and its beauty.

With all its sweet and colourful fruits on its branches.

I must have destroyed it,

by stealing it from Heaven.

Installation; 6,000.00URO

Love of Aphrodite

Oil Painting and Gold gilded ceramic on canvas; 6,000.00URO

This work was inspired after a trip to Adonis Waterfalls near Tala at Paphos district of island of Cyprus. Apparently this is claimed to be the place of Adonis, one of the lovers of goddess of love of beauty Aphrodite in Greek Mythology.

To Fairest One

Oil Painting and Gold gilded ceramic 6,000.00URO

THE GOLDEN APPLE

It was the feast of King of Thessaly Peleus’us marriage to sea nymph Thetis. All the gods of mount Olympus was present at the feast except the goddess of strife Eris, who was not invited. The angry goddess tried to spoil the wedding by rolling a golden apple in the middle of it all. The apple had “to the fairest” in scripted on it. What happened next is very important to human history. This event cultivated the Trojan War which claimed countless innocent lives and affected the civilise world in many ways till present time. Still, it was a mortal man who was blamed for the outcome because he didn’t give adequate thought to his judgement before deciding who the Golden Apple should belong to between the three claimant goddesses. The goddesses were Hera, Athena and Aphrodite and their arrogance was legendary. To swing the mortal mans errand; Hera promised wealth and power, Athena wisdom and skill at war, but Aphrodite spread desire into his heart and offered the most beauties mortal woman in the living world at the time. The man in question was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, Prince Paris. The fairest mortal woman turned out to be Queen Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of Spartan Melenaus. At the time all the kings of Greece sward their Love for her and promised to protect her from wrong doing.

Prince Paris kidnapped Helen from Sparta and brought her to Troy. Most of the kings of Greece sited with King of Sparta and under his brother Agamemnon siege Troy for many years. Outcome was disastrous. Troy was destroyed and many brave Greek and Trojans vanished. Surviving Trojans who haven’t been slaved went far away and created some other settlements which one of them become Rome. Even the conquers of Troy haven’t been able to escape the punishment of gods and goddesses of Olympus.

The hidden Golden Apples

Eris, the goddess of strife had plenty more Golden Apples in hand from the Golden Apple tree in her garden. Gods of Olympus removed the Apple tree from its grounds to another hidden location to prevent Eris striking again. Ever since the golden Apples have been piling under the apple tree out of anybodies reach.

If you are to be presented one of these Golden Apples; what would you want the inscription on it to say?

for Aphrodite.

To the fairest

I would like to offer you one of the Golden Apples if your request for the inscription on your apple is relieved. email your answer to Art Quest as "Golden Apple".

Broken Hearted Tree

Sculpture Installation; 10,000.00URO
Inspired by a poem about love of well known Cypriot Poet. The Broken Hearted Tree have been interacting with the gallery goers by letting them to ad their own thoughts on it bark.
About two and a half meter high papermache painted with oil over foam constructed on metal frame.

Spring of my life

Dervis Dervisoglu

At the spring of my life,

I came across to a beauty.

I wish I was blinded

I wish I was brain-dead

before I set my eyes on her.

Falling in love that is

like a deep ring of fire.

There is no joy in it.

There is no respond for it.

It has no reward.

No escape from it.

I wish that;

All the ones who get cherished,

and never love,

get admonish

for my sin.

But it doesn’t work that way;

Life is mean

Love is cruel

Gods and Goddesses are

remorseless.

Place your thoughts and feelings in writing and/or in droving on the "Broken Hearted Tree"

You can email "Art Quest" as "to Broken Hearted Tree" to place your thoughts and feelings on the tree and on this blog.

Missing Cypriots

Installation; 10,000.00URO

Set up in the early 1980s, The Committee of Missing Persons (CMP) includes one representative from each community in the divided eastern Mediterranean island and an official appointed by the United Nations. Its task is to locate and identify remains of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots who disappeared in the early 1960s when inter communal fighting broke out and during the 1974 Turkish military intervention.

Some 2,000 people were reported missing during the two periods. To date, the remains of more than 750 individuals have been exhumed and the remains of more than 260 have been returned to their families.

At the mean time; this is what I feel about Cyprus;