Resul Aytemür's solo exhibition titled "Colors of Unchanging Sadness" will meet art lovers at the Akademililer Art Center on April 2nd.
Following the completion of the restoration process of the Akademililer Art Center, the ground floor, transformed into a permanent art gallery, will open on April 2nd with Resul Aytemür's solo exhibition titled "Colors of Unchanging Sadness." Curated by architect Erhan İşözen, the exhibition presents a comprehensive selection from the artist's more than fifty years of artistic practice, focusing on the daily life of Beyoğlu. The exhibition, which can be visited every day except Sunday and Monday between 12:00 and 19:00, will remain open until May 26th.
Aytemür, who has been working in his studio on Balo Street in Beyoğlu for over 25 years, brings together the city's streets and the often unseen people of daily life in his paintings. Along the Beyoğlu line; The urban fabric stretching from Taksim Square to Istiklal Street and Tarlabaşı appears on the artist's canvases not merely as a background, but as a constitutive and essential element of the narrative. This geography transforms into a figurative urban memory, pointing to collective memory through individual stories.
Street vendors, children, young people, neighborhood residents, and stray animals gain visibility in Aytemür's paintings, along with the chaos, poverty, and fragility of the city. Beyond being representatives of daily life, the figures stand out as carriers of existential resistance. The artist's understanding of color creates a narrative language that transforms sadness rather than aestheticizes it; it brings together hope, anticipation, and the human will to survive on the same surface.
"The Colors of Unchanging Sadness" shares both the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of nearly half a century of artistic production with the viewer, focusing on the divided and often invisible lives of urban existence.
Source: https://www.haberturk.com/degismeyen-huznun-renkleri-sergisi-aciliyor-387015