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Honeymoon  By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin Oil on Canvas Size: 100 W x 130 H x 2.5 D cm

 

Honeymoon 

By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

Oil on Canvas

Size: 100 W x 130 H x 2.5 D cm



                    
                

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Honeymoon

 

She and her artist husband, artist Fatih Sungurtekin, have been working together in the same workshop since 1998. They fell in love with each other in 2006 and decided to get married. They were also married in August 2008. Immediately afterwards,  artist Fatih Sungurtekin has gone for an international work of in abroad . Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin had to go on a honeymoon with her mother. This was their last vacation. Her mother passed away on September 27, 2008, 2 days after they returned from this honeymoon trip. Even though the artist forced herself to make this painting as a beautiful memory of those days, she made this work with the emotional burden that it was hers last vacation with her mother.Her mother is slightly saddened to be on this honeymoon where her daughter cannot go with her husband, and the artist consoles her mother as follows. ''So you're my biggest love, I came with you on my honeymoon.''

Unfinished Laughter By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin Oil on Canvas Size: 130 W x 160 H x 3 D cm

 

Unfinished Laughter

By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

Oil on Canvas

Size: 130 W x 160 H x 3 D cm


                   

 

unfinished laugter

 Unfinished Laughter
 
All the subjects and objects used by the artist in these paintings are composed of the memories she remembers and the memories of her experiences in the family home. The artist also painted her own mother's portrait from imagination, and in fact, the things we think we have lost appear even more vividly and in detail in our imaginations. It is to begin to see with our hearts what we have lost.

The artist again wanted to convey how funny, ironic and satirical her moments with her mother were, as in the shadow play "Karagoz Hacivat" in Turkish culture. The unique personality and memories of the artist's mother caused by misunderstandings and sound analogies, the comedy, the dialogues and memories between her and her mother have inspiredher ''Mother'' series.


An always open table that is almost never closed in Turkish culture, moments that you share with your loved ones, laughing at almost everything. Every bitter, every sweet thing can turn into laughter if there is a core of humor in a person's life. Laughing is laughing together, laughing brings to joy, which is food for the soul.

She started this painting 13 years ago after she lost her mother. The painting that never ends due to emotional reasons ended when she accepted the joy and sadness of life and started production. Half the laughter will always continue!..

Âvâzeyi Bu âleme Dâvûd gibi sal
Bâkî kalan bu kubbede bir hoş sadâ imiş
BÂKÎ
(Leave a voice like Prophet David in this world,
Because it is a beautiful voice that lasts in this world.)
Turkish Divan Literature Poet Baki

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