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Bergkamen. Cheerful, colorful Anatolian landscapes shape this year’s pre-Christmas exhibition at the municipal gallery “sohle 1”. Gönül Sen, a painter born in Diyarbakır in Turkey, is showing her pictures, which could also be classed as folk painting. And yet this artist is not really a “naive” painter, for she studied painting at the Teachers’ College in Istanbul and worked for almost ten years in Istanbul as a teacher specializing in painting. Since 1981 she has lived in Cologne with her husband, the Turkish draftsman Sebahattin Sen.
Her pictures certainly reflect a degree of longing for the homeland she left behind. At the same time, her painting conveys an impression of the fascination of the Anatolian landscape and the simple life of the people in the villages. The artist herself will be present at the opening of the exhibition tomorrow, Sunday, November 26, at 11 a.m. at the municipal gallery sohle 1.
About the Exhibition
Exhibition 1984: Galerie sohle 1, Bergkamen – listed in the overview Exhibitions of Gönül Sen-Menzel.
More press coverage of this exhibition:
- “Painter Gönül Sen at Galerie “sohle 1”” · Exhibition Notice · Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
- “Painter Gönül Sen Introduces Herself at the sohle 1” · Exhibition Notice · Westfälischer Anzeiger
- “Galerie “sohle 1”: Painter Gönül Sen Follows Habig” · Exhibition Notice · Hellweger Anzeiger
- “sohle 1: Pictures of Anatolia” · Exhibition Report · Westfälische Rundschau
More Articles from Hellweger Anzeiger
- “Family at the Center of “Images of People”” · Exhibition Report
- “Gönül Sen: With a “Passion for Color” Against Everyday Gray” · Exhibition Report
- “Galerie “sohle 1”: Painter Gönül Sen Follows Habig” · Exhibition Notice
