Burhan Doğançay (1929 - 2013)
"Little Big Elephant"
1970-74: Changeable Forms: Doğançay started to analyze those visual conclusions attained through various experiments in an “abstact” language which had no counterpart in the real world. It was then that he started to delve into abstract-changeable forms. The point not to be missed here is that Doğançay didn’t interpret walls with their intrinsic “abstact” and “real” elements as a primary motif. That is why his paintings are hard to categorize. But he has created a theme that has an antirety despite the differences brought about by the visual breaks in his series of paintings. Red and black dominate this work, and a poster, as if torn right from the center, was depicted with its torn parts and the shadows of those torn parts. The relation of the oxidized yellow to the red formed the most striking aspect of this painting, while the images that were formed by the shadows were non-existent either in nature or on walls. The “fictional shadows” in this compositions were not formed by real three-dimensional space; the feeling of depth was created through “illusion”. But the shadows, as well as the other visual elements reached beyond the canvas to be completed in the mind of viewer, thus presenting a “painting with open ends”.
Necmi Sönmez, “Burhan Doğançay, Retrospektif”,Eczacıbaşı Publishers, 2001, Page: 90, 92
Gouche on paper
56 x 56 cm
1974, signed
This work has a certificate signed by Mr. Yahşi Baraz.
Estimated:450.000TL - 600.000TL
Starting Bid: 10.972 USD
