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Mübin Orhon (1924 - 1981) Click for Artist Information
"Abstrait Flamme"
HIS FIRST PERSONAL EXHIBITION AT THE DURAND GALLERY IN 1960 MADE MÜBİN ORHON KNOW AND GET FAMOUS IN PARIS...
“ABSTRAIT FLAMME” IS A WORK BELONGING TO MÜBİN ORHON'S POETIC-EXPRESSIONIST PERIOD, WHICH IS CONSIDERED HIS MOST IMPORTANT PERIOD, MADE ONE YEAR AFTER HIS EXHIBITION AT DURAND GALLERY...
LYRICAL-EXPRESSONIST ABSTRACTION: 1961,1970
Lyrical-Expressonist Abstraction: 1961,1970: It is observed that since the early 1960s, Mübin Orhon has added the features that come to the fore as the material flows from top to bottom into his fiction, after thinning the paint and applying it to the painting surface, especially in his compositions made with gouache and acrylic techniques. The paint is in light tones in the first area where it is applied to the canvas surface, and gradually becomes darker as it flows downwards, giving the paintings a dynamism and fluidity. Thus, this tendency of the artist, who pursues different visual painting tastes that can be evaluated within the framework of "Poetic/Expressionist Abstraction", stems from the close relationships he established with his contemporaries. The bleeding technique, which was frequently observed in the works of the American painter Sam Francis, who lived in Paris until 1957 and was well known to Mübin Orhon, was used by the artist in his painting setup. The visual values created by the leakage of paint from top to bottom show their presence in Mübin Orhon's paintings not by chance but fictionally. "Fluid linearity" realized with agile rhythmic hand movements, which is one of the influences that Francis and other painters living in France brought to their works from the Far Eastern calligraphy tradition to a certain extent, appears as a method used in Mübin Orhon's transformation of color into "image". It is observed that the artist tried to control instantaneous hand movements in the drawings he made since 1959, and tried to reveal the desired effect "in one fell swoop" when he picked up the brush. The artist, who first researched the effects of bleeding on his canvases for a long time, added the experiences he gained to his own fictional world that would make him unique, opening the doors of a new era in his painting. Therefore, the holistic structure ("allover" character) previously seen in Mübin Orhon's paintings is falling apart. Every line, every color is like a note of a visual relationship that has been broken and lost.
Necmi Sönmez, “Mübin Orhon”, Milli Reasürans Sanat Galerisi, 2001, Sayfa: 13, 14
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
1961, signed
Provenance: French film writer Françoise (1923-2017) and his wife famous journalist Pierre Dumayet (1923-2011) Collection
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Mübin Orhon
MÜBİN ORHON (1924 - 1981)
Born in Istanbul in 1924, Mübin Orhon graduated from Ankara Faculty of Political Sciences in 1947. The artist, who went to Paris in 1948 to do his doctorate in economics, turned to painting under the influence of the lively art scene of this city. Mübin Orhon, who took pattern lessons at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière for a while, entered the art world with the geometric abstract paintings he painted. He developed close friendships with artists from Turkey living in Paris, such as Abidin Dino, Selim Turan, Avni Arbaş, Albert Bitran. In 1953 and 1955, one of his works was accepted to the Salon des Realites Nouvelles. After the mid-50s, he turned to a painting approach in which spotty elements came to the fore instead of a geometric abstract style. Towards the end of the 50s, he started working with Lucien Durand. It was during these years that Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury met Mübin painting.
Mübin Orhon's geometric abstraction is balanced with a lyricism that is part of the period in which he lives. His paintings, which are considered a strange Eastern lyricism, are owned by Sam Francis. As seen in Vieira da Silva and Riopelle, it is the expression of a lyrical space divided into flows and indicators that bring to mind his Istanbul memories, for an abstract landscapeism that spreads to the general with the frequent use of stain. After his period in Turkey, where he returned to do his military service in 1965, his mature art evolved towards a "color-field" that would bring him closer to Mark Rothko and Lucio Fontana. The text regresses, turns into scrapes and notches, this is the last intervention before being buried in color. Thus, it is wrong to call the final process Monochrome, because the color is rendered with a luminous saturation. Fragile, rectangular shapes enter the picture space. On the one hand, a closed view, on the other hand, a space that invites us to dive into colorful saturation for a presence-absence. Orhon questions transparent and non-transparent layers in their simultaneity. His paintings show the light of work, the light of the mystery of life. The artist, whose paintings hold a unique place among the examples of works based on abstractist form research in our contemporary painting art following the 1960s generation, died in Paris in 1981.
