Pg Art Gallery opens the 1999–2000 season with a joint exhibition by Ali İsmail Türemen and Berna Türemen. Featuring the artists’ recent works, the exhibition marks the third joint show they have realized throughout their artistic careers.
“The blue human figures that appear in Ali İsmail Türemen’s canvases resemble the solid, massive, monumental sculptures created by a sculptor working with cubic forms, shaping large blocks of stone. These giant, silent human figures move slowly, and with each movement become the subject of a different painting. The undefined and multicolored masses accompanying the blue figures create a contrast to the refinement of the paintings’ compositions, further enriching their visual impact.”
Currently teaching Design Principles and Basic Art Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Eskişehir Anadolu University and Marmara University, Ali İsmail Türemen will present acrylic works on canvas and engravings in this latest exhibition.
“Berna Türemen’s embroidery fantasies, in which she skillfully draws upon certain folkloric elements, are shaped with a mastery that allows drawing to accompany their formation with ease. Her exaggerated figure deformations are surrounded by dense detail. The artist transforms the sensitive richness of contemporary life into delicate legends through the various themes she conveys in her paintings.”
Since 1976, Berna Türemen has realized twenty-eight solo exhibitions. In this latest exhibition, the women who populate her paintings—both rural and urban—appear before us in the series titled “Ferris Wheel Women.
