ZÜMRÜTOĞLU: 5 ARTISTS THE ARTNET GALLERY NETWORK IS WATCHING THIS NOVEMBER

Turkish artist Erdogan Zümrütoğlu's gestural and expressive paintings are currently on view in "Atonal Drift" at London's JD Malat Gallery. These recent works take inspiration from the compositions of Austrian-born composer and painter Arnold Schoenberg, who placed emphasis on atonality in a conscious attempt to avoid traditional harmony and create outside of conventional bounds. Zümrütoğlu channels these energies into swirling strokes and splashes of thickly applied paint in his pictures and in the twisting forms of his sculptures to push renderings of the human figure to the limit.