Kağan Güner, who has works in the fields of public art, painting, sculpture and illustration for children's books, completed his college education at Mimar Sinan University and Chelsea College of Art and Design. He is one of our national artists at UNICEF and UNES CO Asia Pacific Cultural Center. His works, which received awards at international art competitions, have been exhibited in world capitals such as New York, London, Cardiff, Paris, Bologna, Lisbon, Bratislava, Istanbul, Tehran, Tokyo, Seoul and international centers such as the Museum of London, Itabashi Art Museum and the Centre Pompidou. After 20 years of living in London, the artist settled in Famagusta in 2008 and began to lecture on design education at the Eastern Mediterranean University. He continued to make art works in Famagusta, Istanbul and London. He died of cancer in 2011, which he had been fighting for 3 years. His doctoral thesis titled “The Birth of Modern Turkish Art”, which he worked on at London University-SOAS, was published by his brother Ogan Güner after his death.
Anatolian magic is a mixture of civilizations’ cultures in Anatolia, just like Anatolia itself. It is a melding of everything brought by wa-ves of immigrants from the Far East, India, Caucasus, Siberia, the Middle East for millennia, and by many cultures from the Hittites to the Sumerians, from Shamanism to Sufism.
