Mehmet Ergüven english version
[About the “Wall” series *]
Meanwhile the series on walls brings up another problem connected with Günal’s art: the portrait. Actually, with their close (concrete) relationship to subjective life-content, portraits are somewhat contrary to Günal’s way, as clearly seen in the fact that apart from a memorial portrait of his father, and a drawing of his wife and daughters, he has never done a portrait in his life [as an artist *]. In his terms, a portrait of a specific person involves subjectivity which is of debatable interest to the viewer, and for this reason Günal has never peered into the mirror with thoughts of painting his own features.