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AHMET FITOLOĞLU
Don Quixote, mounted figure, 2020 — Ahmet Fitoloğlu, 2020, Acrylic on canvas

Signed a.Fitol 20. On the left, a female figure on a horse; on the right, a long figure carrying a lance on a white horse — likely an interpretation of Cervantes's Don Quixote. The grey-white ground behind, with small red and yellow spots on it, gives a sense of wind or dust cloud. Fitoloğlu never quotes figures directly from literature and art history; he re-births them in his own language. Don Quixote here is not a foolish hero but a traveller of intuition. His lance is held high, the horse's head leaned forward — a road about to step into uncertainty. One of the few Fitoloğlu works that combines literary reference with folk-epic tradition.

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