2010 Exhibition, Project and Akyaka Guide (pdf)

Group "DALGA"  
(10.09. - 19.09. 2010)

Years ago these four artists worked together in Kayıhan Keskinok's Art and Manufacturing Studio 25 and stayed in contact ever since. Later they founded the Group 16 together with other painters. After that, they founded a new group for themselves and called it "Dalga"(Wave). They opened group exhibitions as well as showing their work individually. Their tutor Kayıhan Keskinok once said about them: "Their willpower has lead them into the cul-de-sacs of the difficulties in art. But they never faltered, it woke up their creative tendencies, and they reflected these onto the world of their paintings. They worked with the best developed basic techniques of historical progressive art and painting. Their joy never ceased, on the contrary it flared."
Our artists are happy to open an exhibition in their beloved Akyaka this year and are looking forward to meet Akyaka's art lovers…

Aynur Pehlivanlı
She usually paints cats. Her cat portraits are as far away as possible from photographic images. She strives to catch the cats' feelings and the softness of the pastel colours underlines her efforts. Yet, the artist's landscapes and still-lives are brought before our eyes in the same manner, using the same language and have a similar appeal.

Ayten Timuroğlu
She is always seeking the new. She does not hold onto anything but never gives up on people and grey tones. She says about her last work: "My aim was to tell about life, beginning with a fig tree." Her sound character is reflected in her work. Her compositions consist of drawing- like figures momentarily bound together to create one, whole impression.

Gülgün Türel
One of the group's most colourful characters, all facets of her being are found on her canvasses. Dozens of colours and her authentic brush strokes make her paintings extremely conspicuous and appealing. Her subjects are flowers in all colours of the rainbow and, of course, cockerels.

Zahide Yükseler
She draws women, undoes them, renews them, until she can finally bring them alive. The women of her paintings are free beings. Their heads and long necks are reaching up into the air and they are barelegged. If dressed they freely make use of women's fetishes. Not to distract the viewer from these expressions, she works mostly in shades of grey.