Gönül Sen-Menzel Opens Her 150th Exhibition – Report in Hürriyet

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The painter Gönül Şen Menzel has opened her 150th exhibition at the Galeria on Volkhovener Weg in Cologne.

In the gallery, which shows a large part of her works to date, the large-format paintings 10 and 20 meters long attracted particular attention. Menzel says she has been painting since she was 13.

The Turkish painter, a graduate of Marmara University and of postgraduate studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, said: “I am showing my pictures in Cologne, the city where I live, in an exhibition organized by the German Ministry of Culture. I am for peace. I paint peace, beauty and color.”

The exhibition by the painter, whose pictures have also been shown at the Artemis art center in Istanbul and at Galerie Corpus in Antwerp (Belgium), met with great interest from art lovers in Cologne. As the new year approaches, calendars for 2006 were also shown at the exhibition: twelve sheets, each with a hand-drawn work by the artist.

The report appeared in the European edition of Hürriyet on December 9, 2005; the second image shows the later online version on hurriyet.de (June 27, 2008). Translated from Turkish for senmenzel.com.