Faruk Cimok
Markiz
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 50 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
In the arched interior of the historic Markiz patisserie, a woman in a red dress is seated at a table beneath a crystal chandelier; behind her appear a male figure reading a newspaper and the seasonal panel that covers the wall. The room, in warm tones of brown, is layered with handwritten notes traced in fine white line.
About the Artist
Faruk Cimok (b. 1956, Reyhanlı, Hatay) graduated in 1979 from the Painting Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts (today Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), opening his first solo exhibition in the same year. His paintings take as their subject the quarters of Istanbul — Beyoğlu, the Çiçek Pasajı, Taksim and Kumkapı — together with nostalgic trams and crowded street scenes glistening after the rain. For the pigeons that recur throughout his compositions, he is known in art circles as the "bird painter" (kuşçu ressam).
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