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AHMET FITOLOĞLU
Faces — Ahmet Fitoloğlu, 2018, Mixed media on canvas

It appears as a portrait of a crowd, but on closer inspection you notice that each face carries a different mood: one looks downward, one sleeps, one is openly uneasy. Fitoloğlu's full 40-year studio practice becomes visible in works of this kind — to draw a single face is one thing, to give tens of faces each a separate tone is another. The dark background (almost matte black) brings the figures forward; red and white accents function not as anatomical detail but as psychological emphasis. The large format (80 × 60 cm) has the power to hold a room's wall on its own; every visitor to the room will meet a different face in the work.

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