Neş`e Erdok, whose paintings are based on landscapes from daily life, will open her exhibition of recent works at Yapı Kredi bomontiada on February 20. Her 37th solo exhibition, consisting of the works she has produced in the last two years, will be on view until March 8.
In the exhibition, which is a continuation of more than half a century of uninterrupted artistic production, Erdok’s canvases, where he continues to record time, appear as a diary in which he conveys what he has witnessed. The artist, who brings the inner world of the figures he interprets with pure observation to the forefront and brings it to form, deals with portraits from daily life and current social issues in the world in his paintings.
Neş`e Erdok
In 1963, he graduated from the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Neşet Günal Workshop. In 1965/66, he studied Spanish Language and Literature, Civilization and Art History at Escuela Eutral de Idromas and Escuela Diplomética in Madrid. In 1967, the artist, who was sent to France on behalf of the Ministry of National Education to train faculty members for the State Academy of Fine Arts, studied painting under Prof. Chaplain Midy and Prof. Pierre Matthey de Etang at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1972, he was assigned to the İ.D.G.S.A Neşet Günal Workshop and in 1981 he received the title of Professor. Between 1990 and 2008, Erdok worked as a lecturer in the Painting Workshop at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. His paintings are in various museums and collections in Turkey and abroad, including Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul State Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul Modern, Norton Simon Museum.
The works of Neş’e Erdok, one of the leading representatives of Turkish painting, will be on view at Yapı Kredi bomontiada until March 8.
