Painter Doğu Çankaya, whose exhibitions are hosted by Galeri/Miz, has carried his new series of paintings, which he started by illustrating the book “The Daily Life of Relationships” published by Remzi Publications by psychiatrist Alper Hasanoğlu, who has been his friend since his university days, to an exhibition consisting of 30 pieces.
Composed entirely of oil portraits, “Portraits of Daily Life” can be evaluated both as the evocations of Hasanoğlu’s writings on paper in Çankaya and as paintings that are as independent from his writings.
According to Alper Hasanoğlu, his book of articles he writes every Sunday in Radikal newspaper are in a sense the texts that have written Doğu Çankaya’s paintings, while the paintings in the exhibition “Portraits of Daily Life” are the first paintings that were written beforehand.
Alper Hasanoğlu, the author of the book The Daily Life of Relationships, which is the first part of the project, describes this exhibition, which was realized as a joint project, as follows; ” During a conversation with my painter and physician friend Doğu Çankaya, at a time when the articles I wrote every Sunday in Radikal newspaper were about to become a book, we realized with surprise that although we shared so many common memories, we had no common projects. We don’t know which of us thought of it first, but the idea of my writings and my book being illustrated by Doğu Çankaya arose spontaneously. My painter friend was so productive that he came to me with countless face paintings in a very short time. Thanks to the expressions of those portraits full of different meanings, I realized that I was describing the daily life of ordinary people in my writings. The faces that the writings evoked were so impressive that it was impossible for them not to spread to larger canvases. Thus the second part of our project came into being. This is an exhibition of paintings… Each painting is what the writings on paper evoke in the East, that is, it is independent of the writings. In a sense, these writings are also the texts that have written the paintings of the East. Moreover, these paintings are the first paintings written beforehand. The day my book adorned with the images of the East is published will be the day when the paintings in which my writings are hidden between the layers will also be exhibited: Portraits of Daily Life. I hope that our excitement is shared by those who read/see the writings and pictures (in the book and in the exhibition).
This special exhibition of Doğu Çankaya can be seen at Teşvikiye Gallery/Miz between April 8-15, 2013.
