Bosfor is hosting The Earth The Heavens, an exhibition featuring recent works by Mithat Şen, one of the most distinctive and long-standing voices in Turkish contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from April 14 to May 23.
Having sustained his artistic practice for over forty years, Şen focuses for the first time in this exhibition on a single natural form: the cypress. Built with a rigorous systematic sensibility and a rich expressive approach, the works explore the essence of the cypress tree through the distinctive language and materials the artist has developed over many years. Şen translates the cypress into his own vocabulary. He does not paint the cypress; he reproduces, within his own system, the cypress's principle of upward growth, its condition of remaining rooted in the earth while reaching toward the sky.
