Nuri Iyem: Art Discussion and Appreciation

Описание: Once destiny laid claim to Nuri Iyem’s life, it requisitioned the yet unfolded potential, pulling him from the path he was expected to follow, into a life his soul yearned to explore. Nuri forged his artistic voice during the denouement of the Ottoman Empire. Each of Nuri’s brushstrokes uncoding shifts within Istanbul’s civilization; the yielding of a dominant cultural existence incapable of concealing the germination of a social reality birthed by modernity.

The genius of Nuri’s work can be found in the vacillation within the idea, how does one find a beginning when approaching the end? The answer – with time. Over four decades elapsed before Nuri painted his first marque d'œuvre rendered through searing voluminous eyes, placed upon faces framed by veils. The prolific aesthetic serves a dual purpose of attempting to come to terms with the early death of his sister, while bestowing visibility to social upheaval: mass unemployment and migration, demolition of laborer shanty towns, and the plight of “disadvantaged groups.”

The archetypal role of an artist is to seek redress through expression. Nuri was born into a middle-class life with formal education. He was ensconced from the daily experiences of marginalized groups in society, yet he identified with their struggles. Rejecting wholesale his father’s demand to stop drawing and the values of his social standing, Nuri sought clarity in painting because it, “Was so lovely.” The call to find his identity was answered through finding belonging in a community of artists. Nuri’s art cross pollinated with the words of his teacher and mentor, Amet Tanpinar, who wrote, “I am not within time, nor entirely beyond; but in the flux of an all-embracing , complete indivisible moment.

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