Gülgün Başarır Paintings at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery
* Gülgün Başarır, who prepared her exhibition by working for two years in the spaces and gardens of Topkapı Palace, transforms the human reality hidden in the silence of the past into a contemporary mythology.
* These are paintings that startle people with their silence, worry with their loneliness, turn inward with their simplicity, and sadden with their weariness, and open the doors for people to question their own holistic adventure from a reality in detail.
Gülgün Başarır attracted attention and was watched with interest with the exhibition she opened at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery in 1999. After two years of preparation, the artist once again presents her works to viewers with the same pictorial perspective and her completely personalized technique and colors.
The artist, who explains her pictorial perspective and the creative drive behind her paintings as “The reality that I feel the pain of inside me and experience in a different way every day interests me,” had turned to current realities in her previous exhibition. She had transferred a detail she had seen from her window, doorway, corridor or stairwell to her canvas. Extremely real details from a frozen world where gray colors predominate, there is no light or it can only enter by filtering are the characteristics seen in the artist’s paintings. All of them carry traces of people but are places without people, as if they had just been abandoned. These were not scary but strange paintings. The red dashed lines on the canvases were further widening the gap between the viewer and the painting. The artist had depicted the reality that “pained her” in an ordinary reality in the detail. The viewer was looking for himself in these pictures without people or was opening up towards his own human adventure.