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Abidin Dino (1913 - 1993) Click for Artist Information
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FROM THE "THREE CITIES" SERIES (ISTANBUL-PARIS-ANTIBES) BY ABIDIN DINO, ANOTHER IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FRENCH SCHOOL TURKISH CONTEMPORARY ART
Abidin was not one of those who believed in a single understanding of painting. For Abidin, there was no painting, or rather an understanding of art, that could be valid all over the world, in the West, in the East, in the North and in the South, in the same period. The artist in Paris could have followed a different path, the one in Istanbul could have followed a completely different path. In a discussion with Melih Cevdet Anday in 1962, he wrote: “Can there be one kind of painting in Paris and another in Çemikezek? I think it will. The painter is entangled with life, from the colors and forms of an environment to the various imperceptible effects of the society in which he lives. It is difficult for him to show the same reactions in Konya and Cannes. "Forget that, if I were not afraid of Melih, I would even say that a different kind of painting could be done in Samatya and a different kind of painting in Kavaklar." Abidin exemplified and based this view not institutionally, but with his creative action. For him, painting was an action in the broadest sense of the word. He wanted to express both his creative being and his thoughts, beliefs, intuitions, and loves. This being the case, he chose an approach to art to follow a single path throughout his life. All of these paths followed the same path, and no matter how the language of the paintings changed, they all led to a single goal. For this reason, Abidin's paintings of these three cities have a very different visual language. The Antibes paintings he painted between 1954 and 1961 are on the border of the abstract, with very little color and an emphasis on texture. The Istanbul paintings he made in 1966-67 for his first exhibition in his hometown after a long time are gouache and watercolor. These paintings, made in Paris, are the pictures of a longing of approximately twenty years. Abidin wrote these multicolored, very active paintings as if he closed his eyes and dreamed of Istanbul, and in his acrylic paintings of the 1980s, he depicted the city he lived in as a night panorama, abstracting from people, streets, all details, and even its light. It can be said that East and West meet in the paintings of these three cities.
“Abidin Dino - Üç Şehir”, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayınları, 1996. Sayfa 2,3 5,6.
Oil on canvas
100 x 130 cm
signed
Provenance: Private Collection, Noyon, France
Estimated Value: 350.000TL - 550.000TL
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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.
