Devrim Erbil

Istanbul, Blue Bird's-Eye View

Medium: Giclée print on aluminium
Dimensions: 150 × 100 cm
Viewing: At the showroom — by appointment

The historic peninsula is painted from a bird's-eye vantage as a dense urban fabric woven of deep-blue lines; at the centre a great mosque with its surrounding complex, around it the cream-toned waters of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, and a suspension bridge discernible above. Thousands of white bird figures fill the turquoise sky.

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About the Artist

Devrim Erbil (b. 1937, Uşak) is one of the pioneering figures of contemporary Turkish painting. He graduated from the Painting Department of the İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1959, having trained under Halil Dikmen and Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, and went on to serve at the Academy for many years as both teacher and administrator. His urban panoramas, which interpret Istanbul through a rhythmic, linear abstraction, remain the most celebrated theme of his art. Named a State Artist in 1991, Erbil is represented in Turkey's foremost museum collections.

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