interview

From Neşe Erdok’s Objective

Interview with the Modern Turkish Painter Neşe Erdok

Cem Altınel

"No one who has a sterilized life can paint. I have lived as some kind of a monk, that is true. I have been on my own, I have neither been to a lot bars nor to the restaurants. I have not had quite a few friends; but no one can call it a sterilized life. This is actually something an artist uses to turn in on him/herself. Artists need some kind of loneliness in order to think, to be in deep meditation. Marguerite Duras says “Everyone should watch his own well hole.” The inherent is crucial! Burhan Uygur, for instance, has an extrovert life and scandals. This is not strange; he has not got these scandals in his paintings." more...