KİBELE ART GALLERY
BEDRİ RAHMİ EYUBOĞLU 10 April 2008
“Hail the Color! Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu (1911-1975)”
Retrospective
One of the founders and greatest masters of contemporary Turkish painting, works of Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu (1911-1975) will be presented in a retrospective exhibition titled “Hail the Color! Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu (1911-1975)”. The exhibition will present almost 150 works of the artist from the family collection as well as collections of various institutions, museums and private ones. The comprehensive book prepared by Sabahattin Eyuboğlu and Ömer Faruk Şerifoğlu features photographs from family albums and some 300 works from different periods of the artist as well as minute details of his life.
After having examined the samples of primitive art in Paris during his school years, he adopted the idea that the beautiful could be useful and the useful could be beautiful, something which is reflected in his works. He successfully applied folk motives in his paintings and produced materials of cultural value such as hand-painted kerchiefs, kilims which picture hs observations on rural life.
Born in 1991, Trabzon, Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu went to İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts with encouragement by his painting teacher Zeki Kocamemi, another famed Turkish painter- and his brother Sabahattin Eyuboğlu who was a renowned writer and translator. Studying under Nazmi Ziya and İbrahim Çallı at the Academy, he went to Paris and then London, without completing his diploma programme. His inclination towards wall paintings which florished in the 40s then changed direction to mosaic which earned him an international reputation. Having served as a tutor at the Academy from 1927 till 1975, the year of his death, Eyuboğlu had several pupils some of whom later became renowned artists. He has taken part in dozens of national and international group shows, opened 44 solo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.
The exhibition is open to visitors between 10.00-19.00 except on sundays and mondays.
Retrospective
One of the founders and greatest masters of contemporary Turkish painting, works of Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu (1911-1975) will be presented in a retrospective exhibition titled “Hail the Color! Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu (1911-1975)”. The exhibition will present almost 150 works of the artist from the family collection as well as collections of various institutions, museums and private ones. The comprehensive book prepared by Sabahattin Eyuboğlu and Ömer Faruk Şerifoğlu features photographs from family albums and some 300 works from different periods of the artist as well as minute details of his life.
After having examined the samples of primitive art in Paris during his school years, he adopted the idea that the beautiful could be useful and the useful could be beautiful, something which is reflected in his works. He successfully applied folk motives in his paintings and produced materials of cultural value such as hand-painted kerchiefs, kilims which picture hs observations on rural life.
Born in 1991, Trabzon, Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu went to İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts with encouragement by his painting teacher Zeki Kocamemi, another famed Turkish painter- and his brother Sabahattin Eyuboğlu who was a renowned writer and translator. Studying under Nazmi Ziya and İbrahim Çallı at the Academy, he went to Paris and then London, without completing his diploma programme. His inclination towards wall paintings which florished in the 40s then changed direction to mosaic which earned him an international reputation. Having served as a tutor at the Academy from 1927 till 1975, the year of his death, Eyuboğlu had several pupils some of whom later became renowned artists. He has taken part in dozens of national and international group shows, opened 44 solo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.
The exhibition is open to visitors between 10.00-19.00 except on sundays and mondays.