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Canan Topaloglu Hermans / CV- BIO
My family is from Artvin, Hopa on the east part of The Black Sea of Turkey.
I have been living in Holland and partially in Cyprus since 2018, after spending some years in Istanbul, New York and Ankara.
I graduated from Ankara, Gazi Institute of Education, Graphic Department, Ankara Turkey. Later in my life I followed classes at The Art Students League of New York, and Chinese Calligraphy at New York USA. I am a paper artist and printmaker, and naturally a member of
IAPMA International Handmade Paper Maker&PaperArtists Association CPAA (Cyprus Paper Artists Association), Cyprus
Grafiek Platform of Holland 

Group Exhibition:
CPAS/KKSD, Lefkosa Ataturk Art Center, Cyprus Mar.2023
Muzea Zutphen,Pakje Kunst, Holland  Apr.2023
Koln, kunsthuis Germany Nov.2022
Dam Gallery/ NDSM Amsterdam 2022
Paper Off Skin/RANT- ART,Tasmania /Austrialia 2022
International Paper Art Biennial, Haacht / Belgium 2022
Grafik Platform/Expositie Contact in Coronatijden, Amsterdam, Holland 2021
ETCA/North Amsterdam NDSM Fuse Gallery, Holland 2021
Novene, Kunstruimte H47, Leeuwarden Holland 2021
International Paper Art Biennial, Shanghai China 2021
IAPMA Paper Art Biennial ,Toyota, Japan 2021
The 10th Triennial Papier 2020-Musee de Charmey, Switzerland 2021
ETCA Amsterdam North NDSM Fuse Gallery, Amsterdam Holland 2019
Shanghai Paper Art Biennial,  China, 2019
IAPMA, Paper Biennial, Sophia, Bulgaria, 2018
IAPMA Touring Exhibition , Famagusta, Cyprus 2018
Solo Exhibition:
Galerie Mildam, Heerenveen, Holland 2020
Morkaftan Art Galery, Istanbul, Turkey 2016
Donation to Museums:
Cyprus, Modern Art Museum, NEU, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Publishing:

Raam Grafiek Magazine of the Grafiek Platform 2020, Nederlands

Statement:

PAPER /UPCYCLE /RECYCLE ART / MUSKA (NUSKA)
Muska (Nuska), for centuries  it was  a carrier of a wish or  protection against  evil  or illness in  Asia. The wish, written on paper and folded in a triangle form, was covered with leather or wax. Already since my childhood, I got inspired by this old tradition. For our beautiful Earth, I made all these Muskas for the good wishes for our Universe, Nature, Human Rights and Animal rights. Each inside of Muska is written PEACE(Black), Happiness (White), Health (Red), Protect Nature (Yellow, Green) and continues many good wishes for our Universe. After writing text inside of paper, folding them in a triangle form, and stitching with silk thread, then cover it with wax. The last process is to combine them all together in one  form.

 TEA BAGS
The individual tea bag papers after their life function of giving color, smell and taste, will, after being dried and sewed together, forming a new kind of patchwork. At first it seems to be a carpet, a textile, a painting , two dimensional object. But soon afterwards the paper starts the create its own form, almost spontaneously, as if it takes over control, finding new forms of life and function. Weather a ball, a cube, a square or sphere, it becomes a three dimension self- forming object, a transmutation, constantly changing as life itself. In its lightness it is free and has no limitations in form nor in function.