Mustafa Pancar meets viewers with his new works after a break of five years. In the “Road Side” exhibition, Pancar preserves the color areas and figurative expression in his larger oil paintings and sketches in these smaller scale specimens of his new work series created by the collage technique. While concept and content remain unchanged in the small pictures of the artist, in the transparent technique collages he newly creates, the figures are presented as complementary depictions.
In Pancar’s works, one sees people in clusters, in groups. These figures depict an uprising against the power, intervening in their living spaces. Beral Madra thinks that the composition pattern used by Mustafa Pancar in his works, look like Ottoman miniatures and says, “In Şehname and Zafername miniatures, in the war palace and parade miniatures around Topkapı Palace and the hippodrome, one can see clustered groups of people. These groups of people form waves in front of the background made up of naïvely drawn architectural structures. In Pancar’s pictures, too, it draws attention that groups of people are placed in a wavy pattern, achieving a harmonious combination between and in front of color spaces and city images; and that the side by side measured lineup of figures reminds us of the pattern of figure groups in miniatures.
The exhibition, which beside sketches and paintings, feature large size collages and wire art, may be viewed at Millî Reasürans Art Gallery until March 21.
