BETTINA FRANCKENBERG “LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS” EXHIBITION CAN BE SEEN AS OF MARCH 8, 2017 IN MINE ART GALLERY’S PALMARINA BODRUM BRANCH!
8 March – 8 April 2017, Palmarina Bodrum
The exhibition opening will be held on March 8, 2017, Wednesday at 17:00, in Mine Art Gallery’s Palmarina Bodrum branch with the participation of the artist.
“Light in the Darkness”
It’s the theme of life in balance with the cosmos, growing and maturing at all lifesteps that interests me.
The idea started with the study of matriarchal mythology – one of the first answers developed to questions about the beginning of the world and the sense of life. In mankind’s imagination of the universe the three-shaped moongoddess is a symbol of life in all it’s aspects as well as of nature in it’s cycle. In my work these mythological colours – white, red and black – are symbolic design elements. The black sickle, or new moon, symbolizes the the goddess shape of an old woman. As the death goddess, she rules the underworld and takes all life with her in autumn and winter.
Death equals to reborn in the cycle of nature and every dark period embraces light and hope, as the balance of the cosmos.
BETTINA FRANCKENBERG
Born February 3 1956 in Essen/Germany.
After graduating from college in 1975 she continued with her education in the field of occupational therapy. 1979 graduation and starting to specialize in psychiatry – at the same time initiation to “patchwork”. In 1982 she discovers the Mediterranean and her passion on textile, 1986 she opens her first exhibition in the Castle of Bodrum. Getting more and more involved in her art and her subjects of interest which are those like philosophy, mythology and psychoanalysis she returns to Germany to live in Berlin for some years – between 1989 and 1992 she works as an occupational therapist in psychiatry and organizes several textile-art exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Latvia and Turkey. Since 1992 Bettina Franckenberg lives permanently in Bodrum/Turkey, working as a freelance textile artist and organizing workshops. Since October 2008 Bettina Franckenberg is member of IAA/AIAP (International Association ofArts (UNESCO). Opened various shows in Turkey and abroad.
