Ressam bedri baykam biography

An empathetic painting

Bedri Baykam’s painting is vital. Indeed, it is life in itself, a pure and plain state of mind. You enter the story, and you do not leave it until after imagining yourself not really contemplating it, but inside it, among its protagonists. Only then, eventually, you realize that you have been engulfed, encapsulated.

It is a similar experience to Edvard Munch’s, but at the same time an absolutely different one. The Norwegian painter catches you thanks to an atmosphere made up of landscape’s energies that spread regardless of the morphologic features of that landscape.

Actually, these energies are really active in the name of Einfühlung, of a unique common inspiration, of a true experience of empathy. So, you enjoy intimately and deeply. With Bedri you will enjoy later, after having experienced a collective performance, in which you have felt yourself as an integral part of a community.

Plastic realities

That’s also because the protagonists are not purely celebrated, they are instead grasped in the middle of their happening. And there is

Biography

BEDRİ BAYKAM

b. Ankara-Türkiye, 1957

Bedri Baykam is one of Türkiye's internationally most well-known artists and intellectuals.

From age six until today, he has had exhibitions in Bern, Geneva, New York, Washington, Paris, London, Rome, Munich, Frankfurt, Stockholm, San Francisco, Monaco, Cannes, Berlin, Sydney and Los Angeles, to name a few.

Bedri Baykam is the son of politician Dr. Suphi Baykam and engineer-architect Mutahhar Baykam. He studied at Sorbonne University in Paris from 1975 to 1980 and earned an MBA. During this time, he also studied drama in L'Actorat, Paris. He lived in California from 1980-1987, studying painting and filmmaking at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC, now CCA) in Oakland. He has had several shows in New York, California, and Paris. He returned to Türkiye in 1987 and has been living in İstanbul since.

He has had 151 solo shows and participated in numerous group shows. His works have been shown in museums and institutes such as Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Picasso Museum (Barcelona), Roland-Garros Museum (Paris), Pin

Suphi Baykam

Suphi Baykam (d. 1924, Adana - ö. 21 Haziran 1996), XI. Dönem Adana, 1. (XII) ve 2. (XIII) Dönem İstanbul milletvekili ve ressam Bedri Baykam'ın babasıdır.

1953 yılında İsmet İnönü tarafından onaylanan Gençlik Kolları yönetmeliği ile Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi’nin ilk Gençlik Kolları Başkanı olmuştur. 1957 yılında CHP Adana milletvekili olarak meclise giren Baykam, hızla İsmet İnönü'nün en güvendiği genç vekillerden biri haline geldi. DP iktidarının 3. ve en son döneminde, 1960 darbesine giden yıllarda İnönü ile beraber yurdu defalarca gezdi ve büyük muhalefet hareketlerine öncülük yaptı.[1] 1960'ın en sıcak günlerinde Ankara ve İstanbul öğrencilerinin sokağa dökülmesine Orhan Birgit ile beraber önayak oldu. Menderes Hükümetinin en büyük hedeflerinden biriydi. DP yaptığı onca anti-demokratik yasa ve uygulamadan sonra CHP'yi kapatmak icin dava açtığında (Tahkikat Komisyonu) en çok tutuklamak istenilen milletvekillerinden biriydi.[1]27 Mayıs darbesi sonrası oluşturulan Kurucu Meclis'te Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi Temsilciliği (6 Ocak 1961 - 25 Ekim 1

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