Pg Art Gallery concludes the year 2010 with Mithat Şen’s exhibition titled “Becoming–Disintegration.” After a six-year break, the artist meets viewers once again at Pg Art Gallery.
While addressing the long-established subject of the “body” in art history, Mithat Şen almost performs a repetition-based performance. Within this process, the idea of a single body disappears; dissolving into the sum of all bodies, it learns to push its limits. By turning the body into an image to be read and by fragmenting it as an experience, the artist raises questions about the mode of existence of the cell. He searches for nature and the beginning within the body.
These recurring images, each carrying a different rhythm, almost shift places like living organisms. What we actually encounter in Şen’s paintings is the human body reorganizing and healing itself. Every transformation contains within it the excitement of something new. On the one hand, it suggests the expression of body language with all its aggression; on the other, these images remain concealed, possessing an attitude that challenges our perception by not resembling their own image. Is everything hidden within what we see—within ourselves?
Mithat Şen graduated from the Painting Department of DTGSYO in 1981 and held his first solo exhibition in Istanbul in 1984. The artist, who has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, also took part in the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990.
