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AHMET FITOLOĞLU
Portrait in green — Ahmet Fitoloğlu, 2017, Acrylic on canvas

This portrait is one of the most striking in all of Fitoloğlu's portrait production in terms of colour decisiveness: the figure's coat is almost ebony-green, her hair night-black, her face a pale paper white. An orange ground behind and two secondary figures living their own inner lives — one above, one at the lower right — build this portrait like a mural or a dream. The gaze is not directly at the viewer; it looks sideways at something, as if waiting for something to happen. Few works by the artist live the manifesto's idea of 'blue and green: the flow of time, the breath of life' this directly. The thick, layered paint strengthens the physical presence of the portrait; it breathes not on the wall but in the room.

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