Ercüment Tarhan, an artist of the new generation, is exhibiting his paintings, which convey an investigation into the relationships between nature and human beings, with the harmony and sensitivity reminding romantic and naturalist artists. Having been a student of Neşet Günal at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1977-1983, he has adopted a figürative art training and an understanding that human being is part of nature. At a time when there is a massive number of avantgarde, abstract and conceptual works, created in the name of modern art, Ercüment Tarhan’s dreamlike compositions urge one to conceive the traditional and unavoidable quest for harmony, balance and transcendence between human beings and their natural environment. Ercüment Tarhan’s paintings mark the longing for happiness and content grasped amongst the chaos of contemporary life, depicting figures either wandering in the green, deeply hidden shades of a forest or in the banks of a river or a lake, with their nearly naked bodies in warm light, figures lying or hugging each other.