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I commissioned this painting to exhibit right here in our museum, providing the artist with all the necessary details, and while it offers a fine impression of the orangey lamplight cast onto the interior of Füsun’s apartment, and the chestnut tree shimmering in the moonlight, and the depth of the dark blue sky beyond the line of rooftops and chimneys of Nişantaşı, does it also, I wonder, convey to the visitor
the jealousy I acknowledged as I beheld that view?

Orhan Pamuk:
I don’t feel this box is finished yet, so I have yet to draw its curtain completely.
The artist Kemal talks about is Ahmet Isikci. Ahmet Isikci, a painter from Istanbul, was born in 1940; his work is exhibited for the first time in this museum.
I’ve discussed Ahmet Isikci’s mysterious art at greater length in The Innocence of Objects. Like millions of other non-Western artists, Isıkçı is unduly obsessed with “authenticity.”