Exhibition by artist Oruçoğlu opens in Diyarbakır
DİYARBAKIR (DİHA) - An exhibition of the work of writer and artist Muzaffer Oruçoğlu is to open at the Municipal Gallery in Amed (Diyarbakır) on 4 April 2014. Oruçoğlu, who has had more than 50 exhibitions all over the world, is better known in Turkey as a writer.
Oruçoğlu’s exhibition is called “Flashes”, and will continue until 18 April 2014. Muzaffer Oruçoğlu commented on the exhibition and his artworks. Oruçoğlu said an artist creates a language, adding: "it is an artist's task to feel the language of the flow of colour, light and form within themselves with a profound universal spirit and filter it through the prism of their own aesthetics and philosophy. What emerges from the prism is language."
Nourished by one's internal world
Oruçoğlu said his work was nourished by his own internal world, stressing he was also not disconnected from the realities around him. He added he was also not too bound up in this reality, saying: "I am now more afraid than I used to be of things that condition and truncate my creative freedom. Discovery rather than repetition and imitation is vital. In particular discovering language, form and image."
Two periods in his art
Oruçoğlu said there were two dominant periods in his work and explained them thus: "In my first period pure realism dominates, while in the second a surrealist climate dominates. In my first period I saw art as an effective means of removing the shackles attached to the feet of the life mother. There was a spree of colour and movement. The time in the picture was sure of itself and its future. They were pictures that were natural and passed through the heart of the observer. Crisis became the dominant theme in the second period. One dimensional criss-crossed emotions diffused in their own world and a striving to understand the existence of the small and its power and an understanding of existence came to dominate. Breaking and style came to the fore, and formation vanished and colour retreated."
A synthesis of primitive and modern
Oruçoğlu said the work in his second period appeared to be a synthesis of primitive and modern figures, adding: "I have always been interested in the cave paintings and statuary of Aborigines, Maoris, Tongans and other indigenous peoples of the Pacific. When I began to turn stone and other sturdy materials into statues by means of the technique of collage, I achieved a style close to that of indigenous people and children. It seems to me that my current style has three components: realist, primitive and modern."
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