Zeki Arslan, a Turkish painter in Germany

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Zeki Arslan

Turkish painter and commuter between two worlds

[Who is Zeki Arslan? ]

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The artist with his sculpture "INFINITY"
The artist with his sculpture "INFINITY"

				Museum at the Ostwall

Contact to Zeki Arslan:

Studio address in Germany:	in Turkey:
Buchenweg 27 59557 Lippstadt Tel. +49 2941 22503	Icadiye Cad. No. 33/2 Kuzguncuk-Istanbul +90 216 3433689	arslan.zeki@web.de

Who is Zeki Arslan?

Arslan was born 1949 in Bartın in Turkey and resettled 1975 to Germany. He completed classical design training at the Fachhochschule Münster in the years 1977-1982. The spectrum of this training ranged from concrete painting, photography, silk screen printing and etching, to graphics Design. During his studies he was primarily interested in the phenomenon of structure. This remained unchanged in his ongoing artistic maturation.

In the years of 1982-1985 he subjected his work to a process of creation and destroying. Primarily small formatted pictures were used for this surface experiments. Starting point was the painted oil picture, which he subjected to various experiments.

With increasing concentration on structural analysing, coloring was reduced ever more, the pictures faded and ceased conveying contents. With grey, brown, yellow, lightgreen and soil colors and color shades, color surfaces rather than color forms developed. They inspired an impression of width in contrary to the absence of any perspective depth illusion. We find pure surface and colorless colors in the best sense. Due to the absence of starting and ending ranges at the picture, the compositions associate infiniteness, which results from the All Over Principle.

Arslan decides 1985 to work abstractly.

His art must be seen in the context of the artistic expressions of the German Informel. "German Informel" and "All Over Principle" became almost his brand name.
Differently expressed: Arslan realized a picture language of connected forms.

However, Arslan lives today in an essentially different intellectual and mental environment. His work after 1987 resulted from the linkage of pale colours with a lyric picture language.

(Excerpt from an article of Necmi Sönmez)

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About Zeki Arslan's art

Embedded into the western cultural area the sources of which being rather strange to him, he considers the condition of our world in a completely personal manner. Uncompromisingly he dedicates himself to the individual expression of art, paints gestural violently, emotionally pretentious with glowing colors. His determining principle of composition: Plainly the chaos. Thus a true copy of the present global situation - at the first glance.

Intellect and emotion at the same time - the "classical" artistic principle designates also with Zeki Arslan the cosmos of his taking influence on us.

(Excerpt from an article of Tayfun Belgin)

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Other sites about Zeki Arslan:

Sites of other Turkish artists:

Galerie Binyil, Istanbul

Kare Sanat-Galerie, Istanbul

Mine Sanat-Galerie, Istanbul

Galerie Neher, Essen

Suzan E. Kaube, German/Turkish painter and bookwriter

Seyyit Bozdoğan, freelance Turkish painter in Cologne and Istanbul

Arts association of Lippstadt

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