Sarkis’s exhibition Five Icons Framed in Edirne-style Wooden Ornamentation on view

Dirimart Dolapdere opened the season on 3 September 2025 with Sarkis’s exhibition titled Five Icons Framed in Edirne-style Wooden Ornamentation. A continuation of the artist’s long-standing research on memory, time, and space, this exhibition refers to Angel of War, a solo exhibition comprising a single work presented in 1989 at Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul, as well as to the icons he created during that period using watercolour and the act of touch as a formative gesture. During this period, Sarkis began employing his fingerprint as a painting tool – an idiosyncratic technique that converges, in this exhibition, with his deep interest in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. The exhibition remains on view at Dirimart Dolapdere until 12 October 2025.