ÖZGÜR AKTI
Biograpy
I was born in Denizli in1978 as a son of an art teacher.In my childhood years, I was introduced to workshop,colours and paints.In addition ,I started drawing live models and still life in my middle school years.In the following years, I participated in oversized poster and portrait works with my father and brother. My talent of artistic painting was noticed thanks to my teacher in primary school years and extended to the Faculty of Fine Arts. I graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 2002.In the workshops of the university, I made many practices and studies on canvas and paper in acrylic, oil and watercolour techniques,and in engraving and linoleum printing techniques in original printing.I have acquired both practical and mental production processes in an academic discipline thanks to my teachers who attach importance to art life during my university years.My interest in painting increased exponentially during this period. In the 2A Art Workshop that I established with my brother in 2009, I worked on painting and sculpture as well as stage designs. I have had various painting practices at home and abroad. I’m married to Ekaterina Aktı who is a piano teacher and our daughter Anastasiya was born in 2016. In order to continue my art life,I started my own Painting and Sculpture workshop in 2013 and I continued my studies in my own workshop.In 2019,I expanded my individual art workshop into an educational institution named Antalya Sanat.I continue my own individual studies in my institution,which is called MEB Private Antalya Art,Music and Fine Arts Course.My Pictures;
In my paintings,adventures were formed of the moods of the positive emotions in my life.During the period when I was influenced by my wife'slife,I had watercolour works where I tried to capture the feelings of musicians from the reflections of classical music in my imagination.I combined the romantic effect of watercolour with the universal spirit of classical music and created works in which emotions and feelings stand out. In the process that followed, a series of paintings called 'Happiness Story' was formed, as urreal narration of details of my own life and serial stories turned into an even greater enthusiasm with the presence of my daughter,forming three series so far. In my latest period,which is a new process, I started to work on my own narratives through'Polichinelle', a fictional Italian puppet character who has influenced many artists and composers. With this series, I am experiencing an adventure on the calm and detailed narration of a character in life that I identify with myself who is not in a hurry in the moment when the concept of time is lost. I created instantiations from my own world with the effect of a happy and romantic life. I dream of worlds in where there is love,excitement, longing, mystery and secrets. I have an understanding that likes the contrast and the combination of strong colours that I am not worried about putting together. There are primitive expressions with surreal traces in them,impressive traces that make you feel that the brush and paint are alive. Every painting has a soul and a story, I think it is formed as a reflection of emotions and spirit, not as random results. I feel that I am living in the story as if I were looking for a reality in the world of imagination, and when I open my eyes, I step back and look at the connection between dream and reality. Like a world made real by brush and paint, my life is my life, I live life with the romantic spirit in it, with happiness.EXHIBITIONS
2015 October 02-22 Art Park Gallery - Antalya2015 November 17-29 16th International Antalya Piano Festival - Antalya
2016 October 16-31 Museum of Antalya Exhibition Hall - Antalya
2017 January 23-February 3 Kuğulu Art Gallery , Ziraat Sanat - Ankara
2017 October 23-November 3 Vakıfbank Headquarters Art Gallery - Ankara
2023 28 JULY-10 AUGUST "ТСХР24" Creative Space Art gallery -Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2024 January 1-15 Museum of Antalya Exhibition Hall - Antalya
PARTICIPATIONS
2015 8th International WatercolorBiennal “Art Bridge-Watercolor”, St. Petersburg, Russia2018 January Violinist Hillary HAHN Retrospective album ,painting participaton.
2019 Art RevulationTaipe, finalists ‘’ swan lake ‘’ 220×140 cm acrylik on canvas
2021 Art RevulationTaipe, finalists ‘’ about happiness ‘’ 30x40 / 40x40 /40x40 cm oil colour on canvas
2022 8th Artankara International Contemporary Art Fair (10-13 March -Gallery Antalya Sanat)
2022 Internatıonal Competıtıon “INSPIRATION” Jury Chairman (14-18 April 2022) Ulyanovsk/Russia
2022 2th ArtcontactIstanbul Contemporary Art Fair (25-29 May – Gallery Antalya Sanat)
2023 Art RevulationTaipe, finalists ‘’ about happiness ‘’ 40x40 / 40x40 /40x60 cm oil colour on canvas
2023 8th Artankara International Contemporary Art Fair (09-12 March -Gallery Antalya Sanat)
2024 10th Artankara International Contemporary Art Fair (07-10 March - Gallery Antalya Sanat)
2025 Art RevulationTaipe, finalists ‘’ Polichinelles ‘’ 3 painting 140x100 cm oil colour on canvas
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