SOYUT KOMPOZİSYON 

Curator: Let’s spend some time with "SOYUT KOMPOZİSYON," a mixed-media artwork by Abidin Dino. The interplay of acrylic paint across the canvas makes it sing. What strikes you most about it? Editor: Immediately, it's the strange kind of...comfort? Even with its abstract forms and bold colours. The execution appears rough but deliberate; almost an intuitive creation in the immediacy of material encounter. Curator: I agree. There's a joyfulness, despite its unrefined quality. To me, this piece captures Dino’s sense of free-flowing expression. Look at the composition, these bold outlines suggesting some vase brimming with fantastical flowers. Editor: Exactly. Consider that vibrant background. The way the turquoise fades around the flower makes me want to talk more about materiality, what brand of paint, what support they used... How might these choices contribute to the feeling you mentioned, even dictate it? Curator: Well, beyond specific brands, the very act of choosing mixed media – layering acrylics – tells us about process. Dino embraces texture, fluidity... there is the possibility he wasn't just creating a representation but maybe capturing movement or even emotions? Editor: Which requires us to dig into its artistic and socio-political background! Let’s remember Dino was exiled; does the freedom of abstraction maybe function as an implicit revolt? Were particular paints easier to acquire given post-war markets? Curator: That’s a beautiful way of seeing it. Material availability shaping aesthetic choices born of constraints. Yet even without all that knowledge, the art, in itself, communicates. It’s raw feeling distilled. Editor: Certainly. Even without answers to all the questions around production, we can explore material relationships: that opaque versus diluted coverage, its influence, it points toward artistic decisions within very specific means and limitations... Curator: Precisely, each element working in conversation. And that is its soul – this visual, tactile dialogue. I find myself now questioning if abstraction is itself a conscious artistic choice in a socio-political frame, maybe one toward universal accessibility... Editor: Leaving us to remember how deeply interconnected these choices and historical currents become—materials carrying significance beyond simply the visual. Curator: A fascinating, ultimately optimistic way to approach abstraction!