The artist, who was born in Istanbul in 1942, graduated from the State Applied Fine Arts College in 1968. İsmail Türemen, who is a faculty member at Marmara University's Faculty of Fine Arts, can be seen at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery between December 2-27, 2003.

İsmail Türemen has given volume to large bodies with various shades of blue in his paintings based on figures. The blue figures seen in the artist's works are multi-faceted, spherical, large, artificial and blue as a pictorial element. They establish the spatial dimension of the surface they settle on with their own division attitude, and gradually the entire surface emerges with their relations with other elements, contradictions, measurements and proportions, geometric and organic structures and purely graphic elements.

Regarding these figures, Levent Çalıkoğlu says the following: “İsmail Türemen’s blue-skinned blunt figures, standing firmly on the ground with a force that we cannot move even if we push them, make visible the simplest form of a body’s communication with the world with the cautious attitudes they display in their extension.”

The use of a constructive style and an abstract language draws attention in Türemen’s paintings prepared for the Milli Reasürans Art Gallery. These masses, which the artist calls “undefineds,” are sometimes seen to spill out of the canvas. The ground is sometimes blue, and sometimes it is used with vivid colors and elements that will balance the blue.

The journey of these moving blue giants, which create a web by weaving the space between the surface of the painting and its third dimension, opening up to hidden meanings, can be followed by the audience at the Milli Reasürans Art Gallery between December 2-27, 2003.