Gönül Sen’s pictures are painted with a light hand. Perhaps with a slightly too light hand.
By Rainer Wanzelius
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This also applies to her “Pictures 2000”, which she is exhibiting at “Galerie Gerda Türke” until October 14 (opening on Sunday at 11 a.m.). It is already her sixth exhibition here.
Sen works quickly; the works on paper created in 2000 not only hang on the walls but are also stacked on a table. Writing flows into some of the pictures; the texts, however, show the same lightness that guides the creative hand. Sen should not, incidentally, be denied a “signature” style.
Sen interprets her compositions as landscapes, but individual plants, animals (birds) and faces also appear. Unmistakably, a balloon is rising out of the colors.
The faces are doll-like and friendly – until you stand in front of a picture in which they form a frightening chorus. This artist’s cosmos is perhaps not so light after all.
Original caption: A view of the exhibition “Pictures 2000” by Gönül Sen.
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