PINACOTHEQUE DE PARİS MUSEUM in Paris will exhibit Turkish artist Bedri Baykam's 4-D works between April 15th and July 18th 2010, in an exhibition in homage to the legendary Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

Pinacotheque de Paris, one of the most popular museums in France in the last years, hosts between February19th and July 18th, 2010 an exhibition of Edvard Munch, considered as one of the pioneers of Expressionism along with Van Gogh and Gauguin.

Every year, the Museum offers a “carte blanche” to a contemporary artist to display his own interpretations of the Museum's main exhibition. This year, Pinacotheque de Paris extended this offer to Bedri Baykam.

The Museum's director Marc Restellini, states  in the press release about Bedri Baykam, with whom he met in 2002 in Argentina at the Buenos Aires Biennial where he was a juror, that “He couldn't help but consider Baykam when it came down to a show about Edvard Munch, taking into consideration the fascination that the has for the Turkish artist due to his style that bursts from his chains, and a real freedom of intonation where a world of references and a very rebellious expressionism meet”. Restellini states that, by choosing Baykam, he wanted to give recognition and a right of speech to an intellectual who is deeply committed to politics, and who reintroduces the relationship between art and politics in the very tense environment of Turkey.

Baykam produced thirteen 4-D works, examining Munch's works and life. The artist takes the audience on a very special journey through time with his new technique where he makes use of his lenticular surface to obtain an amazing depth in his work. His 4-D works have also been shown in Turkey, Europe and the USA since 2007 and have raised serious interest.

Baykam prepared his “Homage to Munch” exhibition in six months and went to Oslo to investigate the artist's life thoroughly. He also visited a fishermen’s town, Aasgardstrand, where Munch's favorite studio was located, to elaborate on his interpretations of Munch's works such as “Puberty”, “Madone”, “Scream”, “Dance of Life”, “Sick Child”. Baykam takes the audience to the inner depths of the Norwegian artist with the investigation on his life and career, full of ups and downs and with the synthesis of raw creativity with an intense and complex sensitivity.

Baykam's “An Homage to Edvard Munch” exhibition will also be shown in Turkey and Norway after Paris. A catalogue in French and English, which carries the articles of five renowned art critics, Harry Kampianne, Edward Lucie-Smith, Hasan Bülent Kahraman, Peter Selz and Mamade Kadreebux, is also published for this occasion.

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