Sola Bakan Portreler

Drawing portraits is a subjective task. But subjectivity is not such a bad thing. It depends on how you draw. Isn't the greatest contribution, the greatest privilege of the Marxist method, that it saves the subject from the fate that oscillates between being a helplessness determined by the material conditions at one end, and being a force in itself that tramples on the same material conditions as it wishes at the opposite end? Can the integrity formed by historical determination and historical action be considered as nothing more than a bare scientific truth? Isn't scientific truth and its close relative, a revolutionary political thesis, loaded with emotion? Democratic Germany's revolutionary scientist Jürgen Kuczynski, while conveying his impressions of Cuba to his grandchild, says, "They are dancing in the laboratory." Asaf Güven Aksel draws such portraits.