The “From the Masters…” exhibition, organized to bring art to art lovers in Ankara, is curated by Berna Demirhan and features works by Adnan Çoker, Adnan Turani, Ali İsmail Türemen, Ali Teoman Germaner (ALOŞ), Avni Arbaş, Burhan Doğançay, Ender Güzey, Eren Eyüboğlu, Ergin İnan, Ferruh Başağa, Gül Derman, Mehmet Pesen, Melike Abasıyanık Kurtiç, Mustafa Pilevneli, Süleyman Saim Tekcan, Şenol Yorozlu, and Ümit Doğan. The exhibition will be on display at Timora Art Gallery from December 20, 2025, to January 10, 2026.
The exhibition, a collaboration between Timora Art Gallery and IMOGA Istanbul Graphic Arts Museum, interprets printmaking techniques, continuity, and transmission. It reinterprets the historical depth and intellectual intensity of printmaking through the works of artists who have shaped this field in the Turkish art scene. IMOGA, besides being an archive and exhibition space, supports the conceptual framework of the exhibition as a center that continues contemporary production practices. While making visible this accumulated knowledge shaped around the museum, the exhibition continues to present to the viewer how printmaking has been passed down, transformed, and maintained its vitality across generations.
A master is an artist known for their excellence in their art; while demonstrating their technical and aesthetic competence in each work, they are also a teacher who can transfer their knowledge and experience to others. The concept of mastery goes beyond a hierarchical authority or a definition limited solely to individual artistic achievement. Mastery encompasses the transmission of knowledge, the continuity of workshop culture, and an ethical and aesthetic sharing space established within art education. The exhibition reveals that the meaning of mastery is not only an individual pinnacle but also the result of collective memory, shared experiences, and continuous production practice. It treats the title of master as an expression of a long-term production practice and a sense of responsibility. It emphasizes the ability to transmit knowledge and experience across generations. It suggests reading the language of printmaking through the traces of masters; inviting us to recognize the labor, time, and thought behind the productions.
Printmaking, contrary to what appears on the surface, requires a high degree of skill, disciplined workshop practice, and deep knowledge of materials. Each of the different techniques, such as engraving, lithography, screen printing, and woodblock printing, shapes the artist's worldview with its own historical background and aesthetic possibilities. This clearly reveals that it is a unique field of expression that is recreated each time. The exhibition establishes a dialogue between different printmaking approaches. Thus, it reminds us that it is a field too rich and open-ended to be reduced to singular styles. As one of the most established disciplines in art history, printmaking has shaped the visual language of modernity with its concept of reproducibility. This process has also made it economically possible for art to reach wider audiences; works have become more accessible in terms of cost thanks to printmaking techniques. At the same time, the knowledge and experience of masters have been carried across generations as a pedagogical means of transmission. Thus, aesthetic and cultural accumulation has spread on a social level. This triple effect; technical reproducibility, economic accessibility and pedagogical/cultural transmission, makes printmaking an effective tool in shaping a social culture and modern visual language.
You can view our exhibition, where you can focus on these thoughts, at Timora Art, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Mah.
2846. Sokak No:7. 06810. Çayyolu. Çankaya/Ankara.