Zeki Arslan

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Zeki Arslan (born December 17, 1949 in Bartın , Turkey ) is a Turkish-German artist and painter.

life and work

After moving to Germany in 1975, he trained from 1977 to 1982 at the Münster University of Applied Sciences in the field of design . Having become familiar with various graphic techniques, Arslan devoted himself to a wide variety of artistic forms of production, from sculpture to drypoint and screen printing to photography , before turning his main focus to oil paintings . In all creation processes within the direction-finding period, his joy in experimenting was characteristic. From 1982 he began to subject his oil paintings to surface experiments, thus establishing his own experimental style. In addition, in 1987 there was a completely non-representational method of representation that began in 1985. At that time, his work shifted from abstractly reproduced impressions of nature, which trigger an association with earth or rock in the observer, to thick-layered, colorful and high-contrast (often large-format) paintings. These “become concrete through themselves”, as the art historian Tayfun Belgin put it in a catalog text. The art critic and exhibition curator Necmi Sönmez sees the clusters of colors - some of which seem glowing - as "chaotic coexistence". The dynamism and color expressiveness inherent in the pictures can be compared with the European Informel , stated Belgin. Sönmez specified this and named the German Informel as a reference. He also emphasized the “ all-over principle ”, the design method that negates any traditional rules of composition, which Arslan is adequately characterized by. Ellen Schwinzer, museum director in Hamm until 2012 , went back further in art history and took into account Arslan's ancestry in particular by saying that Arslan's abstract, non-representational art followed the tradition of the Turkish artist movements of the 1920s, namely the "Association of Independent Painters" and of "Group D".

The Turkish-German artist works in two studios, one in Lippstadt and one in Istanbul .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983: City Museum, Lippstadt
  • 1989: Lami Gallery, Istanbul
  • 1991: Gustav Lübcke Museum , Hamm
  • 1994/95: Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
  • 1995: Kaş Gallery, Istanbul
  • 2002: Istanbul Art Contemporary. Kare Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
  • 2006: Kiplas Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
  • 2011: Osthaus Museum Hagen , Hagen
  • 2014: Kunstverein Lippstadt, Lippstadt

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985: Museum Schloss Kemnade, Bochum
  • 1986: City Museum, Lippstadt
  • 1988: Kunstverein Kreis Soest, Soest
  • 1993: Bangor Municipal Gallery, Great Britain
  • 1995: 5th Istanbul Sanat Fuarı. Baraz Gallery, Istanbul
  • 2007: Contemporary art from Istanbul. Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna
  • 2010: The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeki Arslan. In: kultur-in-lippstadt.de. City of Lippstadt. Specialized Service for Culture and Further Education, accessed on May 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b biography and exhibitions. In: zekiarslan.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Necmi Sönmez: From monochrome to multicolor. Thoughts on image and color understanding at Zeki Arslan. From a treatise by Necmi Sönmez. In: zekiarslan.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Zeki Arslan . In: The Oberstadtdirektor of the city of Hamm, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum (Hrsg.): Zeki Arslan. Exhibition September 15 - October 27 . Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm 1991, p. 5 (year and page numbers determined by yourself, as not given in the catalog).
  5. ↑ a b Tayfun Belgin: The new pictures by Zeki Arslan . In: The Oberstadtdirektor of the city of Hamm, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum (Hrsg.): Zeki Arslan. Exhibition September 15 - October 27 . Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm 1991, p. 6th f . (Year and page numbers determined by yourself, as not given in the catalog).
  6. ↑ Ellen Schwinzer: Foreword . In: The Oberstadtdirektor of the city of Hamm, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum (Hrsg.): Zeki Arslan. Exhibition September 15 - October 27 . Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm 1991, p. 4 (year and page numbers determined by the company, as not given in the catalog).
  7. ↑ Who is Zeki Arslan? Contacting Zeki Arslan. Zeki Arslan, accessed May 13, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Arslan, Zeki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bartın , Turkey