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Created in refference to the 7 continents and their cultures, the "7 Continents, 7 Roosters: Good Morning to the Children of the World" exhibition invites the audience to explore continents with the works of Mehmet Güleryüz in different rooms of the Istanbul Toy Museum.

In the "tenth" year of the "Mehmet Güleryüz Notebook Project", 96 notebooks sent from 16 Fine Arts High Schools were evaluated by the painter Mehmet Güleryüz. Due to the pandemic conditions affecting the whole world, the evaluation was made with the Zoom application.

Mr Güleryüz examined the notebooks sent to Edirne Hasan Rıza Fine Arts High School, page by page, through a live connection he made from Paris. The evaluation made with the Zoom application was completed in five days with a total of 17 hours of live connections. After examining more than 9600 pages of drawings in 96 notebooks, 14 students were awarded success and 22 students were awarded honourable mentions by Mr Mehmet Güleryüz.

"Garden of Complaints (48B)", 46 x 61 cm, ink on paper, 2018.
"Le Chat Sauvage", Ecoline on Arches paper, 73 x 56 cm, Feb 2018, Paris
Left: "Le Sifflet", Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm, 2017, Paris.
Right: "Rue Hautefeuille II", Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm, January 2016, Paris.
Visaul artist, sculptor and actor Mehmet Güleryüz told the story of his rich expression search from painting to design, sculpture to theater, and the challenging art journey that went to mastery to the "My Art" program that Zuhal Demirarslan prepared and presented. The program, which was shot in Paris, focuses on Mehmet Güleryüz, one of the most important names in contemporary art.
"Painter and Painting" Mehmet Guleryuz's 5th retrospective exhibition was held at the Istanbul Modern Museum from January to August of 2015. The exhibition reflected the development and transformation of Guleryuz's search for expression that extends from drawing to painting, sculpture to engraving from the 1960's to the present.
"Painter and Painting" Mehmet Guleryuz's 5th retrospective exhibition was held at the Istanbul Modern Museum from January to August of 2015. The exhibition reflected the development and transformation of Guleryuz's search for expression that extends from drawing to painting, sculpture to engraving from the 1960's to the present.
"Painter and Painting" Mehmet Guleryuz's 5th retrospective exhibition was held at the Istanbul Modern Museum from January to August of 2015. The exhibition reflected the development and transformation of Guleryuz's search for expression that extends from drawing to painting, sculpture to engraving from the 1960's to the present.
"I am listening to Istanbul", 130 x 260 cm, Oil on canvas, 1996. Artist's Collection

"Güleryüz established his distinct and vigorous signature painting style by the late 1980's. The main characteristics of his compositional arrangements, spatial structures, paint handling, imagery and content have persisted through his subsequent paintings, and his characteristic urgency and energy have prevailed. In the 1990s, the physical vigor Güleryüz would pour into the paintings, and the volcanic urgency they could radiate back to the viewer, became cataclysmic, even apocalyptic."
"Paintings of the 1990s", Nan Freeman, "Mehmet Güleryüz", Galeri Nev.
Exhibition 20-04-2021

Mehmet Güleryüz in the Museum: "7 Continents, 7 Roosters: Good Morning to the Children of the World"
"7 Continents, 7 Roosters: Good Morning to the Children of the World" exhibition, where different disciplines come together to address cultural diversity, offers the opportunity to reflect on the beauty of inclusiveness by entering into a visual and auditory harmony with the toys in the Istanbul Toy Museum collection. Created on the basis of 7 continents and their cultures, the exhibition invites art lovers to explore continents with the works of Mehmet Güleryüz in different rooms of the museum.
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