Mithat Şen I Ahenk Hakkında
Mithat Şen’s exhibition at Atelier Marvy called “Harmony” is the first exhibition the artist holds in İzmir. It is possible to see the traces of the artist’s transformation over time in Mithat Şen’s “Ahenk” exhibition, which presents different examples of the diversity of materials used in art production. In the exhibition that shows us how the 13 pieces that became the artist’s own alphabet were transformed with canvas, acrylic paint, parchment, marble, metal and polymethyl methacrylate materials, Şen’s relief and sculpture works from his recent ‘’İstif’’ series will also be on display. Mithat Şen’s painting carries the key of a meaning matrix about the geography he belongs to, as well as what it signifies as an object on its own. The body studies, which show us the patterns and acrylic paintings that the artist made in the 80’s, constitute a 13-piece ‘’Mithat Şen Scheme’’ that only signifies itself by transcending the human body and is repeatedly recreated by the use of the relationship between forms. This body, which the artist has been recreating for almost 40 years, turns into a discipline where geography explores the possibilities of the part-whole relationship. Each painting is a part of the whole that constitutes the geography’s perception of the universe; contains the knowledge of that whole, and this knowledge is repeatedly recreated in different forms by the artist.
10.06.2022 - 12.06.2022