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Nurol Art Gallery Open In Bodrum
The exhibition includes paintings, ceramics & sculpture by the three very talented members of the Eren family, Cemil, Barış & Zeynep. The Erens are well known both in Ankara & in Turkish art circles & have a long association with Bodrum on the Aegean coast.
Cemil Eren was one of the artists who worked on frescoes at Anıtkabir, Atatürk’s Mausoleum & Museum, in the 1950s. He had his first solo exhibition in Ankara in 1957 & first exhibited in Bodrum in the Haluk Elbe Gallery at Bodrum Castle. He has a summerhouse in Gölkoy & over the years has created a whole series of landscapes & studies inspired by Bodrum.
In the new exhibition he has included his earlier paintings of fishermen as well as his most recent studies of birds & fish while using his signature mastery of white & pale blue shades.
Reversing the winter trend of art galleries closing in Bodrum, the Nurol Art Gallery Bodrum opened in the Oasis Shopping Centre. The Oasis Shopping Centre & Nurol Art Gallery in Ankara worked together for the new opening.
His daughter, Zeynep Eren, has turned her artistic talents to ceramics & statues, creating earthy solid figures in the Kybele tradition of strong Anatolian women. She has also included a series of colourful scenes painted on ceramic tiles using the same style of female figures.
Barış Eren now is a full-time director with the Ankara State Theatre & will not be attending the opening because he will be preparing performances in İzmir. His involvement with theatre is evident in his colourful modern figurative canvases, which are created with a mixture of pastels, acrylics & pencils & exude movement & vitality. The artists’ works are represented in private & corporate collections in Turkey & Europe.
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