Gönül Sen-Menzel: Exhibition at the Langen City Museum 1993 – Invitation

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May 13 – July 4, 1993
Opening on Thursday, May 13, 1993, 8 p.m.
Opening hours Tue + Wed 5–8 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.–12 noon + 3–6 p.m.
Langen City Museum, Old Town Hall, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz 3, Langen

Gönül Sen and Sabahattin Sen – a Turkish artist couple from Cologne – present themselves at the Langen City Museum. At the center of the show are paintings by two people who are closely connected, yet whose works make characteristic perspectives and differences clear.

Gönül Sen came to Germany in 1981 with her husband, the painter Sabahattin Sen; both continued the studies they had begun in Turkey here – she at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Professor Günther H. Blecks describes Gönül Sen’s work as a break from the fixed and enclosing, but also from constraints and blockages, toward new, risky creative possibilities. At the center of Sabahattin Sen’s work is the human being, the human body. A body that must assert itself in the struggle of existence, between rest, violence, distress and pain. His figures fray to the point of unrecognizability, dissolve into small cells, are grotesque.

Professor Günther H. Blecks from Cologne will give an introduction to the works of Gönül and Sabahattin Sen. The opening event will be accompanied musically by Toga Salman (violin) and Koray Salman (cello).

Organizer: City of Langen, Office of Culture and Sport. Admission: free

The announcement appeared in 1993 in the events program of the City of Langen (Hesse); the exact publication is not given on the clipping.

Read more about this exhibition in the report “Gönül and Sabahattin Sen: Friendly Mockery of Theory”.