"MİTHAT ŞEN'S 40 YEARS OF ART PRODUCTION WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN A BOOK TITLED "ONE CONTINUOUS FORMATION"
The first publication of Galeri Bosphorus, the book "A Permanent Formation," brings together the works of master artist Mithat Şen spanning over 40 years of production.
The introductory text of the book, written by İrvin Cemil Schick, connects to Mithat Şen's established visual language through the aesthetics of language. The main text, written by Gökşen Buğra;
The components of Mithat Şen's alphabet in "Breath" sometimes form the body schema as a whole and sometimes with interruptions; solidity and emptiness within square forms create rhythm, progressing continuously. In the unlimited possibilities of the system the artist has established, 360 squares come together, creating a symphony through repetition and variation, sometimes diminishing, sometimes layering and continuing, diversifying the way of showing the body schema with subtractions and shifts.
In "Breath," Mithat Şen densely places the body units he has divided into thousands of pieces with continuity and stacking. For the artist, the claim of the painting is that the beginning can be added to the end, and the end can be added to the starting point. "Breath," which can be considered a comprehensive compilation of Mithat Şen's method of transforming form and material, is a stopping point where the "Body" series meets the "Cosmos" and "İstif" series.
