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Burhan DOGANCAY (1929-2013)
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Burhan DOGANCAY (1929-2013)
Open up your heart, 1998
Mixed media and collage on canvas, signed and dated on the lower right, countersigned and dated on the reverse
102 x 102 cm
40 3/16 in.
PROVENANCE This work was acquired from the artist by the current owner in 2007.
Private collection, France
Burhan Dogançay
Born in 1929 in Istanbul, Burhan Dogançay learned the principles of art from his father, Adil Dogançay, and Arif Kaptan, two famous Turkish painters. He first studied law in Ankara and then continued his university education in Paris, obtaining a PhD in Economics. During his period in the French capital (1950 to 1955), he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. On his return to Turkey, he embarked on a diplomatic career while pursuing his artistic activities, and exhibited regularly with his father. In 1964, he decided to devote himself solely to art and made New York his main place of residence. He also lived and worked in Istanbul and Bodrum in Turkey.
An inveterate traveller, Burhan Dogancay visited over a hundred cities throughout his life. He was fascinated by urban walls, which he considered barometers of our society, through which we can observe not only passing time but also social, political and economic movements. His work is full of the motifs, signs and symbols he found on these walls, which he recorded permanently with his camera at the time. These elements were an inexhaustible source of inspiration. He first worked on them through drawings and sketches, then, once the composition was established, he used a variety of materials to turn them into a collage. Each work thus resulted from a series of steps: he applied a layer of paint over the entire surface, to which he added various elements, then sprayed on inscriptions. These works do not reflect a particular city or wall but combine different memories and different countries. They can be seen as fictitious narratives of an urban reality.
Burhan Dogançay d
Open up your heart, 1998
Mixed media and collage on canvas, signed and dated on the lower right, countersigned and dated on the reverse
102 x 102 cm
40 3/16 in.
PROVENANCE This work was acquired from the artist by the current owner in 2007.
Private collection, France
Burhan Dogançay
Born in 1929 in Istanbul, Burhan Dogançay learned the principles of art from his father, Adil Dogançay, and Arif Kaptan, two famous Turkish painters. He first studied law in Ankara and then continued his university education in Paris, obtaining a PhD in Economics. During his period in the French capital (1950 to 1955), he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. On his return to Turkey, he embarked on a diplomatic career while pursuing his artistic activities, and exhibited regularly with his father. In 1964, he decided to devote himself solely to art and made New York his main place of residence. He also lived and worked in Istanbul and Bodrum in Turkey.
An inveterate traveller, Burhan Dogancay visited over a hundred cities throughout his life. He was fascinated by urban walls, which he considered barometers of our society, through which we can observe not only passing time but also social, political and economic movements. His work is full of the motifs, signs and symbols he found on these walls, which he recorded permanently with his camera at the time. These elements were an inexhaustible source of inspiration. He first worked on them through drawings and sketches, then, once the composition was established, he used a variety of materials to turn them into a collage. Each work thus resulted from a series of steps: he applied a layer of paint over the entire surface, to which he added various elements, then sprayed on inscriptions. These works do not reflect a particular city or wall but combine different memories and different countries. They can be seen as fictitious narratives of an urban reality.
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