By Heidi Trautmann

Rhythm is an order of movement, a statement by Plato, and the theme of the exhibition of three great painters at the Atatürk Cultural Centre in Nicosia from April 20-30, with works that I have seen and admired before. I do not want to repeat myself so I add my reviews of some years before, I could not say it any better today.

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However, it is for the first time that I see them all together. Yes, I agree there is something the three painters have in common here, that is movement.

Here we have a comment by Alev Adil, who is a poet, performance artist and scholar, on RHYTHM

Rhythm is sensation – Here we have three artists who bring rhythmic vitality in visual sensation. Don’t interrogate the image, rather search for objects, colours and characters as symbols of rhythm. These paintings are not the representation of rhythm, they are rhythm itself. Observe the rhythms which create the sensate existence of painting, and thus life itself. Rhythm is more basic and profound than vision, hearing, or any of the senses. Rhythm is the coexistence of diastolic and systolic, of the expansion and contradiction of the body in the world, of being and becoming. Rhythm is sensation in its purest form and thus the essence of painting. As Cezanne said, and Deleuze echoed, after him, rhythm is the logic of sensation.

Anber Onar made another statement out of which I would like to cite one phrase:….. An artistic resistance, continuing archiving what time destroys in the most anachronic spaces…

Is it not a known truth that painters have always been archivers, recording the flow of history? Recording the changes of time?