Artist SAFA BÜTE and ART NiGDE INTERNATIONAL
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Niğde is the city where I was born and live, it is far from the Cappadocia center about 1 hour by car. About 35 years I lived far from my city. I have been in many countries to realize art events and then returned back to Niğde. About 10 years ago I contacted the Ministry of Culture in Ankara and I told them I decided to live in Niğde city and give art lessons to the young people and open international exhibitions. The ministy of culture gave me an unused old church for my needs. I spent about 3 years to make it ready for the exhibitions. I established the Art Niğde International (ANI) and started to work. A few years I was in some international art Project with the indian artists and associations. Many of the artists wanted to open solo exhibitions or to take part at the international group exhibitions but unfortunately I could not be successful as I wanted due to the much cargo fees. 99 percent of the artists had the same financial problems. And they were right… Because to transfer the original works by cargo or any other transfer methods cost so so so much. I could understand all the artists as being an artist. I had to find a solution for this problem. I was planning to open 3 or more international group exhibitions in a year. And with the sponsors it was not easy to solve it. Because, if I find sponsors they could support me only for a few exhibitions and then nothing. So I had to find a solution should not be inside any sponsor. In the end I found the best way to realize my group exhibitions. As you know the technology is growing up in our life. So I could ask the artists to e-mail me the high resolution copies of their works and I could have them printed on canvas and exhibit. I contacted my friends Yoo Choong Yeul in Republic of Korea, Fred Van W., Carmen Heemels (GAPi) and Abdolreza from Iran (Leading Art) to support me about this Project. Thanks to them, all of them are supported me and I started to realize my Project.
South East Asian Artists Magazine
