New exhibition in Urladam

Urladam Art Center, which continues its culture/art activities with the understanding of increasing the values ​​that art and culture add to our lives and facilitating access to them in Urla, Izmir, brought the exhibition “Blue and Black” by Black Sea painters Orhan Zafer and Mümin Candaş to art lovers on June 27. Curated by art writer İbrahim Karaoğlu, the exhibition can be viewed every day of the week until July 10.

Curator Karaoğlu, in his manifesto where he describes this exhibition as “Two separate emotional journeys”, says, “They grew up on the shores of the same sea. They are two old friends who multiply and deepen each other by sharing intense artistic processes.

Each one defines their art through different styles, colors and realities. This exhibition is a dialogue in contrasts: One depicts a solitude and silence where there is no human being, the other depicts the solitude and inner voices within the human being.

Both of them shape their canvases with the intensity of their own emotions. Each of them seems to present pictorial letters and diaries in the depth of their own intuitions and feelings. They invite their viewers to a field of thought that looks both inward and outward. They present the traces of their individual and collective memories and existences with a grammar of painting dominated by blue and black,” he describes.