Exhibition: OIL PAINTINGS by ALI ULVI OZDEMIR
November 1 - November 8, 2003
Ali Ulvi Ozdemir believes that in modern era, people are not able to perceive the world as a whole. Instead they see it and the reality around them as pieces. This can be explained in a simple way as seeing the world behind a crushed window. Artist tries to visualize this idea in his paintings by dividing the theme into pieces. He thinks that find arts should give hope to people. That is why he prefers to use bright colors. He tries to idealize Picasso's revolutionaries and productivity. Klee's imaginative power, Basquat's rebelliousness, Stuart Davis's creativity and choices of colors, Pollack's fearlessness for new techniques and Van Gough's sacrifice of his life to art.
Ozdemir's style is oil paintings with bright colors, uses color contrasts, tries to make themes in such a way that everyone may find different forms or figures in them.
Artist works with oil, uses canvas. He thinks that images of objects are more important than their real appearance. Recently he has affected by the forms of traditional Turkish Ebru Art and he tries to apply Ebru forms to oil paintings, especially in abstract and still life works.
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Ali Ulvi Ozdemir started painting at 12 years of age. During his high school and university years, he attended painting classes. Between 2000-2001, he joined the workshops of one of the most famous artists of Turkey, Kayihan Keskinok. He concentrated in "the use of color techniques" and "massive oil as a plastic material on canvas" workshops.
His professional education is business management and has graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences, which is known as the top institution in Turkey on this subject. He worked in three big private companies of Turkey as financial manager and budget director.