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American author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “I went to the woods / because I wished to live deliberately / to front only the essential facts of life / and see if I could not learn what it had to teach / and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” The lines of the semi-autobiographical semi self-discovery book “Walden”, in which Thoreau described the two years he’d spent in a cabin at Walden Pont without support of any kind, remind us of Tufan Baltalar’s journey - part real and part imaginary - that lead on from his previous exhibitions “Viewing Terrace” and “in between”. In the cloud and landscape series, Baltalar continues to trace the intimate encounter of human and nature. The artist’s canvas paintings in different sizes stem from photographs taken during his frequent bike sessions and draw attention to the potential of the landscape genre for representing inner experience.
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