Category Archives: cityscape
Living, liking and exclaiming Paris
Returning to Istanbul from my two-month sojourn as a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, I have in my possession three signed volumes. Together they signal the points of a triangle, or the pages of a trilogy, … Continue reading
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Tagged bleuetrose, bonnard, burcuturker, citedesartsparis, destael, Duchamp, giletjaunes, hemingway, lecubisme, monet, orangerie, Paris, parisartmuseums, pattismith, picasso, rachelcusk, shakespeareandco, vandongen, vuillard
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Frank Auerbach: painting uncertainty
Picking up on something I wrote a while back after visiting a major retrospective of Frank Auerbach’s work held at Tate Britain: Frank Auerbach creates a cathedral of perception and then invites his viewers to do the same in this … Continue reading
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Tagged frank auerbach, istanbul, leon kossoff, london, painting, richard diebenkorn, studio, tate, uncertainty, visual arts
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Swimming the distance of memory
Geographies of paintings done and redone. Having walked the long-mediated underground from the Metro station into the glammy Zorlu centre, arriving in Mamon, announced as it is, 250 m then 150m, then 100 only; a grey airless tunnel and I … Continue reading
The wondering artist 