Silent City [painting*2020/2021]
In Western art history, almost most of the artists who have ever drawn figurative paintings have depicted clothes or some form of drapery. Drapery makes the viewer think that it has to be there, some sort of an obligated object; thus in general it is not the main focus of attention. My starting point of studying drapery was the way I have been observing them as a different storyteller within a painting, an open space for studying abstraction. My approach to drapery in this series was its relation within its form, space, color, and human figure. Over time I wanted to behold the limits of a concrete object, drapery, and its transformation into a fluid, abstract figure; on the other hand, I was willing to tell stories by using vivid colors, opposing to our perception of a dramatic drapery painting in our visual memories.
These paintings are exhibited in Far Near, BASE Istanbul 2020.
Embodied, 2019, oil on canvas, 193 x 150 cm
Blue Temperament, 2019, oil on canvas, 150 x 180 cm
Sancing with Z, 2019, oil on canvas, 130 x 117 cm
The Delight of the Fall, 2019, oil on canvas, 182 x 78 cm
Diving in Memoir, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Strange Comfort of Being Sad, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Are You Sure That It Is a Woman?, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Smell of the Hesitancy, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
CAtching the Ferry, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Nonreactive, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Mouches Volantes, 2020, oil on canvas, 45 x 45 cm
