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"Atibes" Series
A MASTERPIECE FROM THE "THREE CITIES" (ANTIBES-PARIS-ISTANBUL) SERIES BY ABIDIN DINO, ANOTHER IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FRENCH ECOLE TURKISH CONTEMPORARY ART...
Abidin, was never one who believed in a single understanding of painting. At the same time a painting that is accepable on all four surfaces of the earth, in the East, in the North, in the South, or a sense of art was out of the question for Abidin. The artist in Paris or for that matter the artist in Istanbul could follow a competely different path. In 1962in a discussion with Melih Cevdet Anday this is what had wrote: “ A different painting in Paris, and another in Çemişkezek how can that be? I think it can be. An artist consumed by the color of the environment, from shapes to the society they live in, fuly enwrapped with the different indistinct effects of life. It’s difficult for him to show the same reaction in Konya as in Cannes. If i didn’t fear so much from Melih I would even say that the paintings in Smatya are different then the ones in Kavaklar.”Abidin, was basing his opinion examlifying his creative activities, not corporate, (for as long as I’ve known he has always ran away from these types of theories). For him painting, was an activity in the whole meaning and sense of the world. It was a creative, personal action, a revolutionary one, a societal movement. He wanted to express himself, his existence, thought, beliefs, instincts, and one love through his paintings. Being as it is, he chose a multipathed art apprecation for himself, without criticising those artists giving them credit who d’rather ptoceed in a single pathall their lives. All these paths aare going in the same direction and no matter how different the language of the painting is, they were all leaning towards one purpose. In these three cities there is a totaly different language of Abidin’s painting. The Antibes paintings that he made between 1954-61 are on the verge of abstracticism, suficing with less color, but relying more on texture. He will open a solo exhibition in his own mother country after a long interval in 1966-67 with his watercolor and gouche Istanbul paintings. These paintings were made in Paris a product of twent years of longing. It seemed as if these multicolored, moving paintings were made by abidin, with his eyes closed during a dream of Istanbul painted onto paper. The acrylic in the 1980’s in his Pairs paintings isolated the city he lived in from people, streets even from the light and details painted as if a night view. We can say that East and West meet in these paintings of three cities. Ferit Edgü, “Abidin Dino - Üç Şehir”, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayınları, 1996. Sayfa 2,3 5,6.
Oil on canvas
65 x 80 cm
signed
Provenance: Private Colelction, Noyon, France
Estimated Value: 180.000-325.000 TL
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Abidin Dino
ABİDİN DİNO (1913 - 1993)
He was born in Istanbul in 1913. He spent his childhood in Europe, as his family settled in Geneva and then in France the year he was born. He returned to Istanbul with his family in 1925. He started studying at Robert College. After the death of his father and then his mother, he abandoned his education due to his interest in art and started to improve himself in the fields of painting, caricature and writing with the support of his older brother, the poet Arif Dino. His early works were published in many magazines and books. He founded the "D Group" in 1933. He was interested in cinema in Paris and Leningrad; He served as assistant director and director.
He went to Paris between 1937 and 1939. During these years, he developed friendships with names that excelled in different branches of art, such as T. Tazara, Picasso, Cocteau, Malraux, G. Stein, Eisenstein, Babel and Mayerhold. He returned to Istanbul in the 1940s and took part in the "Port Painters" (New People) Group. In the 1950s, he met Guttuso, Moravia, Savinio in Rome, and Soupault, Aragorn, Lurçat, and Prevert in Paris. He settled in Paris in 1952 and opened exhibitions in France, Algeria and America. In Dino's paintings, which span a wide range of technical and aesthetic aspects and include works from different periods, it is possible to observe all the approaches that should concern an artist, such as the past and the future, the present, the living environment, the reality of the world, within the deep frames of a common artistic temperament.
For Abidin Dino, art is all kinds of objects and formations, experiences and knowledge that extend from the past to the future and cover the artist's area of interest and sensitivity. For this reason, a constant search and renewal has been valid for every period of Dino. His paintings are based on intellectual and visual foundations. What connects periodic works together is the continuity of this intellectuality and visuality and their organic relationship within themselves. He died in Paris in 1993.
