Dirimart is pleased to announce Fahrelnissa Zeid’s solo exhibition. The exhibition brings together works compiled from private collections, some of which were displayed at the retrospective exhibitions held at Tate Modern and Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in 2017. The exhibition organized in cooperation with the collectors in Turkey and artist’s estate, who is represented by the gallery in national and international platforms, exemplifies her oil paintings from different periods of her career spanning over more than forty years. Concurrently with the exhibition, Turkish translation of her biography titled Fahrelnissa Zeid: Painter of Inner Worlds, written by Adila Laidi-Hanieh, is published by RES Publications.
The exhibition includes works between 1940–80: figurative compositions from her early period, reminiscent of miniature paintings; geometrical and lyrical abstractionist works from her maturity period; portraits focusing on psychological narration from her late period.
