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Painting exhibition – İş Bankası Gallery, Parmakkapı – April 25 to May 10
Gönül Şen, born in Diyarbakır in 1949, graduated in 1972 from the art and crafts department of the Istanbul Education Institute and began working as an art teacher. She taught art until 1981; in 1981 she settled in Cologne.
At the Düsseldorf Art Academy she studied in the class of Prof. Schiff and also completed her postgraduate studies there. The artist, who has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, held a solo exhibition at Galerie Vepa in Istanbul in 1987.
Gönül Şen says she does not want to assign herself to, or see herself as dependent on, any of today’s views of art; she wants to stand where she can be entirely herself – in a place that is as independent, contemporary and unmistakable as possible.
The text comes from a Turkish publication on the exhibition at the İş Bankası gallery in Istanbul-Parmakkapı (year not given on the clipping, after 1987). Translated from Turkish for senmenzel.com.
