Recent Works: Bedri Baykam
Catalog, 1992
Since 1987, Bedri Baykam’s works operate as a kind of repository. They review and exhaust the limits of the intelligibility of painting in paradigms of styles and currents.
In 1987 Baykam reused a number of Nineteenth Century European Paintings. Ingres’ Turkish Bath, and a juxtaposition of Gérome’s Steam Bath, and The Grand Bath at Bursa [...]
Istanbul as Raumgeist
Catalog, 3rd Istanbul Biennial, 1992
Megalopolis, which in Greek means “the great city” reveres the town as a spiritual structure over and above its physical expansion. In the texts, the megalopolis is “transcendent” and is used to describe Athens and Troy. It is not alluded to as a “big city” but as an “insurmountable, transcendent town.”
The [...]
Mithat Şen
Galeri Nev Mithat Şen Catalog, 1992
Şen is a painter who does not deal in tradition. The final work does not rest on the appropriations of prior images. For example, the Ebru tradition, which an unaccustomed eye may propose as a quotation here, is not analyzed through a figure. Şen’s Works withstand such references because they [...]