Saim Dursun
Nomad Tent
2007
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 50 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
A nomad encampment pitched on the steppe: women in brightly coloured headscarves at work before the black tents, cauldrons, donkeys carrying loads on their backs and grazing sheep. The thick paint the artist lays with the palette knife builds the canvas of the tents, the orange and green bands of the earth and the figures' clothing as interlocking masses of colour; a mauve-grey range of mountains and a hazy sky extend behind. The artist's signature and the date 07 appear at the lower right.
About the Artist
Saim Dursun (1959, Elazığ – 2021) owed the turning point of his career to the French art historian Didier Vacher, whom he met in 1989 at the Beyoğlu Municipality Art Gallery; following that encounter he pursued studio work in Istanbul and in France between 1989 and 2003. In thickly textured oils worked with the palette knife he painted the people and daily life of the Anatolian landscape; colour, light and movement are the three essential elements of his work. He received three awards from the town of Le Val in France and held more than forty solo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. One of his works is held in the collection of the Ankara Museum of Painting and Sculpture.
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