Murat Burhanoğlu : Black Sun
Murat Burhanoğlu presents us a flora and a fauna, an eerie playground for a struggle of instincts with and within civilization.
A black sun of many desires shines on the doings of the entities that populate this world, starkly rendering their struggle of will, their biting, their hitting, their running, and their wandering through a primordial rawness. Archaic quotes and visions from the future walk hand in hand in this dense forest. And saints, palaces and ruins strive to assert their own narrative in this claim for an illustrated perfection.
Murat Burhanoğlu
Murat Burhanoğlu, born in Istanbul and based in Amsterdam, is a painter whose practice revolves around monochromatic landscapes and the gestures of entities and animals that inhabit our world. His visual language draws on archaic rawness, ruins, and palaces. Artist’s first solo exhibition, Black Sun (2019), and his second, Order of the House (2023), were both within Ambidexter Gallery. His paintings are featured annually at major art fairs such as Contemporary Istanbul, and he has participated in group exhibitions in Istanbul, Izmir and Chios, Greece.