16 October - 18 December 2009 (extended - 28 February 2010)
It is not just color on canvas.
The images of Ibrahim Coskun have a strong suction effect. Already at the first meeting with them we are captured by the intensity of their expression. This painting is expressive, but at the same time it is abstract, too, but without any content. We encounter a remarkable pictorial quality that is beyond the everyday, which increases from picture to picture.
Everything appears disturbed, uncomfortable, and disturbing. The viewer's eye is followed by a brush stroke, as well as by the style of the spatula, and tries to find the content, the character of what is presented here. The color expresses itself in these works with all power.
The above described agitation in the images themselves is therefore not purely aesthetic. It characterizes the interior world of the painter.
A picturesque phenomenon determines almost all the images of this series: it is the dialectic of proximity and distance.
The color determines the painter's world of mood, with an exclusivity that is overwhelming. For the painter - and also for the viewer - escaping is not possible. The color whirls, as it were, its inner essence, it flashes and thunder equally, and literally every spot is part of a flood of color.
When Blue spreads its weight, it is felt that a great flood of water makes this image world uninhabitable.
Dr. Tayfun Belgin
