Levent Tuncer paints from the malleable parameters of a Proustian space, between sleep and awake. Levent’s recent work reflects this by intuitively reinterpreting formal stylizations from a particular 15th century Iranian drawing, as well as other sources from art history and contemporary visuals. He looks beyond the formal rules of the drawing and art making, to his inner psyche, from which his paintings are conjured. Past and present are accessed intuitively, not only presented as a cross cultural DNA of imagery but made into an epic visual state of history/memory that is real and fiction.