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• Another important set of figures constructed in your paintings together with the types of people, architecture, vessels, and objects of the Ottoman society at Levni’s time is the cavalry and infantry, and other types of people that have been cut out of the paintings by the renowned West European painters of the 16th-19th centuries...What do you want to express by all this complexity of human figures that entered the paintings of Gazi Sansoy departing from important paintings of the Western painting with the resemblance of a circus that was a mixture of East and West? • Answer: I can reply both of these questions above together. My favorite courses were painting and music when I was a pupil at high school because I could do them spontaneously and in a natural way. The only course I liked thereafter was history and the Ottoman history, in particular. In those days, I would love to read various extracurricular history books as well. The Hayat history digests that were published in 1970s were the digests that I enjoyed a lot reading and they, in some 10 volumes, are still the most valuable books in my library. I was quite interested in Evliya Çelebi as well for a time, who also had a humorous style. In fact, this curiosity and interest continued in my university days as well. I had painted, in a surreal environment, a figure wearing a kaftan and turban in a gravure of mine dating back 1991. Therefore, I guess the miniatures by Levni have not actually inspired me by themselves until I saw and examined them in a book as a whole and they became a triggering factor only for a construction phase by a contemporary style of painting that is specific to me ( year 2007 ESIN ATIL – LEVNI AND SURNAME). As to what I wanted to express by the complexity of human figures; I think there could be other subconscious reasons in it together with the accumulation over all those years. But the underlying case could be the fact that the distortions and contradictions have reached the highest level in our society that are being reconstructed by an extremely hypocritical administration in my opinion, in which society, starting with an inferiority dating back to the siege of Vienna or Westernization or modernization starting with Tanzimat which rose to the highest level through the Republic and revolutions, we turned during the last 10 years our face back to the East thoroughly but “our interests” to the West and more so to the US. What I in fact have depicted may well be the case of the others “trying to live with the others” in a country where justice works for them only and there is, on the one hand, hordes of men and women whose heads and inside their heads have been wrapped up and covered and which is managed by a leader that wants “from now on” 5 children and wants that as if it were an order so that these hordes could grow more and come back to him in votes, that defines culture as erecting mosques here and there and memorizing Quran, and that could get monuments of humanity demolished by calling them freak whenever he feels like it…

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:59.1 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in

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