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This text was first published in Turkish in Evrensel Kültür. The original text opens in a new tab in the German section of this website.
Culture & Art · March 29, 2018 · ekmekvegul.net · by Nurten Kum
On the fourth anniversary of Gönül Sen-Menzel’s death, the Turkish women’s news portal Ekmek ve Gül (“Bread and Roses”) published a portrait of the artist as its “Portrait of the Day” on March 29, 2018.
Nurten Kum’s text first appeared in 2014 in the culture magazine Evrensel Kültür. It introduces a painter who created “pictures with the flavor of a rainbow”: a childhood spent in 28 different cities, training as an art teacher in Turkey, the move to Germany in 1981, studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and numerous exhibitions in Germany and other countries. It recalls her performances combining painting with dance and music, joint projects with the artists’ groups KölTür and Bunte Eule, her bilingual children’s books published by Anadolu Verlag, and her doctoral research at the University of Paderborn on the development of art in Turkey, where she also taught painting.
Gönül Sen-Menzel died suddenly on March 29, 2014, in her studio in Cologne – in the midst of plans for exhibitions, projects and courses.
Read the full English translation in “A Colorful Painter: Gönül Şen Menzel” (Evrensel Kültür). Original article (in Turkish): https://ekmekvegul.net/kultur-sanat/gunun-portresi-gonul-sen-menzel
First published: “A Colorful Painter: Gönül Şen Menzel” – Evrensel Kültür (2014)
