Portrait
Ayten Durukan

http://www.turkishpaintings.com

Fertilization, 2004, 80x60 cm

Child Sex Slaves, 2006, 75x110

The pictures are from her new exhibition “Hypocrisy”.

Quote Ayten Durukan:

“The pharmacological plants in my paintings indicate the social scars. Can they serve as a REMEDY? Who knows...hope at least.
The pure and the clean anatomy of the plants intersect the pathological anatomy of the society on the canvas, in order to be medicine for them.
The plants underline the honesty that we miss, and face us with the reality which does not “exist” when not known and not seen.
They have been MEDICINE for the social hypocrisy.
I asked the plants about the “Child Sex Slaves” and the “Fertilization”. They said: “There is nothing we can say about them. But if you continue being indifferent, the social hypocrisy will continue too.”

Ayten Durukan

1949

Ayten Durukan wurde 1949 in dem Ort Antalya in der Türkei geboren.

Von 1966 bis 1971 studierte sie an pharmakologischen Fakultät der der Marmara Universität in Istanbul.

Bis zu ihrer Pensionierung 1999 arbeitete sie als Pharmakologin. Seit 1999 beschäftigt sie sich mit der Malerei in privatem Unterricht und Arbeiten im eigenen Studio.

Ayten Durukan hat ihre Werke bereits in mehrere Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, von denen drei Kataloge gedruckt wurden. Augenblicklich bestreitet an eine Soloausstellung in Antalya mit dem Titel: “Anatomie der Gesellschaft, ausgedrückt durch pharmakologisch wirksame Pflanzen”.

Frau Durukan bedauert nur eines in ihrem Leben: daß sie nicht früher mit der Malerei begonnen hat.

Ayten Durukan was born in Antalya, Turkey in 1949.

1966-1971 she studied at the Marmara University of İstanbul, Faculty of Pharmacology

Until her pension in 1999 she worked as a pharmacologist . Since 1999  private painting courses and working in her studio followed.

Ayten Durukan exhibited her work in several galleries where she joined several group shows. (Three catalogues)

At the moment she doing a solo exhibition on “Anatomy of the Society Through Pharmacological Plants”  in 2007 in Antalya. The Exhibition is named “Hypocrisy”.