ANA SAYFA

•  For the  uninitiated, non-Turkish speaking visitors to Emlak Bank Sanat Gallery' s recently finished exhibition by Muammer Durmuş, the primary theme would have appeared to be the architectural components of human beings and buildings, which, unlike real life, seem to coexist in a fairy tale environment of Dutch blues and smoky lavender. There's nod to cubism , but no more, some homage to Islamic domes and Mimar Sinan's great city, but they seem to be in a conflict with the jerry-built apartment blocks of today: just one happy family...These paintings are very pretty, light as morning mist and very professionally executed...The artist biography claims he had an interest in surrealism in the 60's, and that his early black and white engravings displayed this proclivity, but there is little evidence of it here, unless a vision of the metropolis without poverty and filth could be considered surreal. (MOLLY MCANAILLY BURKE-TURKISH DAILY NEWS 1998)