Armoni Art Gallery is hosting a special exhibition to commemorate Turan Erol, one of the important names in Turkish painting.
Armoni Art Gallery is hosting a special exhibition to commemorate Turan Erol, one of the important names in Turkish painting. This exhibition, which will meet with art lovers between February 1 and March 8, 2025, will once again introduce the works of the master artist to the art world.
The opening of the exhibition will be held on Saturday, February 1 between 18:00-20:00. Art lovers will come together at this special event and have the opportunity to closely examine Turan Erol's understanding of art and the depth of his works.
One of the works in this exhibition is an impressive work by the artist reflecting human labor and life intertwined with nature. In the painting, a boat is depicted in the construction phase, while worker figures symbolize labor and production. The boat skeleton, highlighted with blue tones, offers the viewer the aesthetics of an unfinished process. The scene, which the artist created with a natural and warm color palette, invites the viewer to witness a calm but productive moment in time. This work, as one of the prominent works of the exhibition, will present the artist's unique perspective to visitors.
WHO IS TURAN EROL?
Turan Erol, who presents natural landscapes with a colorist and emotional narrative, was born in Milas in 1927. He graduated from the Bedri Rahmi Studio in the Painting Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1951. During his education, he took part in the establishment of the "Ten" Group with his studio friends, including Nedim Günsür and Orhan Peker. The artist, who opened his first exhibition in the Academy's cafeteria in 1947, was appointed as an art teacher in Diyarbakır after graduating. He went to Paris in 1960 with a scholarship provided by the French Government; he worked on engraving in the Friedlander studio. After returning from Paris in 1964, he became a lecturer at the Gazi Education Institute in Ankara. He then worked as a lecturer at the Ankara University School of Press, the Faculty of Language, History and Geography, and the Gazi University Faculty of Education, Department of Painting Education. After receiving the title of professor in 1987, he was appointed to the Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts and taught there until his voluntary retirement in 1990. Erol, who was elected State Artist in 1991, was also one of the important names of Turkish art as a writer and critic. The artist wrote articles, critiques and exhibition reviews on art in many publications.
From his early youth, when he was passionately devoted to painting, to the end of his career, Turan Erol, who created poetic and delicate works reflecting the environment he lived, traveled and experienced, constructed natural forms in a geometric order with spots of color from the mid-1950s onwards. He addressed coastal towns, rural settlements of Anatolia, life around big cities, and shanty houses. Especially in the 1960s and 1970s, he made paintings that could be described as lyrical abstract without straying away from nature, and he presented the visual language of nature in a simple way, with soft color spots, under an expressionist tendency. In his paintings, where we see both the steppe lands of Anatolia and the blue of the Aegean, he always poetically depicted the subject he addressed. With his works dominated by lyrical abstract during the 1960s and 1970s, still life and flower paintings from the 1980s onwards, and semi-abstract expressionist tendency with the 1990s, Turan Erol became one of the most important names in landscape painting. In addition to his portraits, he addressed the cities of Anatolia, especially the distorted urban architecture of Ankara, their lives, the concept of shanty houses and their reflections with a unique sensitivity.
Source: https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/kultur-sanat/turan-erol-anma-sergisi-armoni-sanat-galerisinde-2294114