New
'Movement-Related Paintings' by Murat Erdemsel
are in the exhibition at Empire Studios in New York City. "..it was shortly after my last exhibition in Lancaster PA, I have concentrated on tango dancers and their movements on my paintings. I can say 'American woman learning tango' was the most inspiring work on this decision. The 'color orange', Fernanda Ghi's excellent posture, the music of Hugo Diaz, and the most important; 'american women learning tango' prepared the path to the creation of this important work. And I feel lucky that we display this painting in NY exhibition once more." 'American woman learning tango' was sold to D. Neuin before it was completed. And also similar situation that K. Golden the new owner of 'Light Green' is generous enough to let this painting have a place in this show. These are the first two paintings if you go visit this show at Empire Studios at 127 W 25th street, Manhattan..." |
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woman learning tango' was a very quick sketch. I
always felt that I exhausted my desire much earlier than usual. This is sometimes painful but sometimes an encouraging point to think of some other ideas. Yes I left the painting for 4 months and never came back to it. There was a bull front of her, symbolizing the rough, wild, dirty argentine dance. Well... let's say it is rough compare to an American woman from Virginia curiously interested in this dance. This bull had confident but scared eyes on it's body with neon green strong and again old legs with big nails. She does not see what she has just started to deal with. Behind her is creamish orange and things are not so meaningful for anybody. Her front is her future which is difficult, way too strong for her, old along with elegant history, cultured but again; it is a tired old animal, finally an old bull.. it is too much for her." |
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 34 x 46 in. Acrylics on canvas 2002-2003 |
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'American Woman Learning Tango' has lots of free, wild but refined brush strokes along with smoothly rendered large surfaces to capture the contrast of two opposite expressions of themes in the painting. |
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'Light Green' was commissioned by Golden's in 2002. And It is the reproduction of the original painting 'Two Torsos'. "... 'Two Torsos' is one of my most successful works. It was the gift of hundreds of sketches on historic torsos represented the two; man and woman. The painting was sold to S. Shuliko in 2001. 'Light Green' is slightly larger and has more refined texture. Strokes are more rendered to each other. Bodies are constructed more organicaly. But some lines are almost too perfect too. More important than all this, 'Light Green' has a close connection to his immigration issues with needing a green card to be legalized. The message between the torsos mentiones the pain comes out from being out of a legal status. "... thank God I am all over that now. It was deep, unforgettable. It was an illness... Many people tried to read that hand written paragraph in between the torsos. Well, I did not mean it to be readable. But if you can, you will read something like an argument between light and dark greens. Represent both sides. And you will possibly feel the confusion of me being 'good' and being 'bad'.." |
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46 x 34 in. Acrylics on canvas 2002 |
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This is the only painting that he seriously painted his words. Interesting that the neon green paint in between the torsos was one of the last moves. Easy to guess, the idea of 'declaring a message' came to join the progress significantly late. |
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'Irina, tango dancer II' came right after the first Irina painting. 'Irina, tango dancer I' was commissioned by a french collector Valery Yildirim in 2003 and was purchased for $ 4600. Unexpectedly, this painting experienced tons of custom problems on it's way to Istanbul. "... it never finishes if i talk about the Irina paintings. I think they perfectly convey the personality of Irina Chikounova who is my teaching assistant, former dance partner and a very close friend. 'Irina, tango dancer II' is much more optimistic than the first one. It is simply the other side of her. Every positive thing you can ever imagine. And the side of her that I really like. Sometimes she asks me, "is this my head? is that my stomach?" I tell her "...it is not 'you' in the painting, it is how and why you are" |
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 40 x 30 in. Acrylics on canvas 2003 - $ 4000 |
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Compare to all the others, 'Irina, tango dancer II' is the painting with the wildest strokes. Each stroke becomes a surface, surfaces bring movement to her anatomy, and depth to it's perspective. |
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'Valeria Solomonoff, the thinker' was painted with the inspiration of having a successful partnership and pleasant friendship. Valeria is one of the top tango dancers world wide. And one of the rare personalities one can meet. "...She means a lot to me. I am lucky to know her and proud to be her dance partner. I think we have a great future in dance. She is a hard worker, very intellectual and the most honest. After scanning more than two hundred photographs of her, I thought about painting her sitting on a chair and deeply thinking. Extremely saturated colors with clean lines. Some of the strokes at the background travels out of her face to the emptiness. Large curve with a big dot above her head represent the animal bird of holiness, intellectuality, being confidentially protected, being the chosen one." |
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40 x 30 in. Acrylics on canvas 2003 - $ 4000 |
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In the opening night, people mostly talked about this particular work; 'Valeria Solomonoff, the thinker' |
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| 'Portrait
drawing of Valeria',
pencil on paper. This was an unexpected piece of work to have it in the exhibition. Was the last minute decision to take it to NY exhibition. But no question, it became one of the most popular works in the exhibition. |
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 14 x 11 Pencil on paper 2003 - $ 800 |
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'Portrait drawing of Valeria' is framed and protected under a glass surface. |
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'Green portrait' is a work that is not directly related to the theme of the exhibition. It was painted in the years of master classes in painting at GWU 2001. This is the first time of exhibiting. It has a certain relation to the rest of the paintings if you notice the brushing style. And the color green has a strong relation with the paintings 'Light Green' and 'Valeria Solomonoff, the thinker' "...I believe this painting declares the particular style I alway wanted to use in my work. Now in my new paintings I see my self repeating what I had done in this 5 minute portrait painting. |
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16 x 12 in. Oil on canvas 2001 - $ 1600 |
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The
detail of 'Green Portrait' has been displayed as the category image of 'portraits' in our art web site for last two years. And today finally 'Green Portrait' is in exhibition |
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These drawings are pencil on paper with the size of 12 x 9 and reasonable to purchase; $500 They were sketched in Hirshorn Museum in Washington DC in 2001 |
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