Zümrütoğlu: Mirror of Darkness

Since his earliest work of the 1990s Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu (b. 1970) has established himself as one of Turkey's leading emerging artists. His strikingly colourful and often large-scale canvases have already caught the eye of gallerists and collectors in both his home country as well as France and Germany, inspired as they were by his studies of paintings in Dutch and Belgian collections. The curating of an exhibition in London's Mayfair gallery district provides an exciting opportunity for new audiences to experience the work of a painter who has always seen himself primarily as a global artist drawing on the traditions of western literature and philosophy...