Kemal Önsoy: Cité Roumelie
1989
Kemal Onsoy: Rumeli Hanı / Cite Roumelie, Galeri Nev Yayınları/Publications, Istanbul
These are the paintings of the city. They observe the city as it comes into being, lives and vanishes.
Önsoy calls this series of paintings, Cité Roumelie. Cité Roumelie, one of the prominent buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, witnesses only the cheapest [...]
From Four Years of Silence to More Years of Silence
On Serdar Arat
Galeri Nev Yayınları/Publications, Istanbul, 1990
The arch-shaped paintings of Serdar Arat carry images of imploding heads, vacuous sirens, various industrial and other enigmatic forms, as well as real and painted air ducts. Lately, he had added deceivingly naturalist forlorn vistas, thick black stripes, and a mélange of real and produced materials. Since his series [...]