Ömer Uluç (1931 - )
"Figurative"
A work from the artist's 80s Paris period... Ömer Uluç's most sought-after period…
Between the Abstract and the Figure: Ömer Uluç, who examined the complex interconnectedness between the figurative and the abstract throughout his entire stylistic adventure, also focused on this problem on his Nigerian experience covering the years 1974-77 and finally on his Paris experiences in the 80s, where he continued his artistic career. When the relationship between figurative and abstract is considered in the context of the relationship between real and abstract images, it is still the previous years that coincide with the tense environment of the first figuration process in the efforts to find a solution to this problematic. In a conversation with Uluç in 1969, he described the local traditions, which he described as the complete opposite of the western painting tradition, as the transformation of a mass of color into a bird or flower, a geometric mass plastic into a figure, a drawing or text into a human face (New Magazine, 1969). Instead of creating the form by looking at nature, mobilizing an abstract design for common meaning goals. Thus, integrating with a logic that results in an image that is both figurative and abstract. The conditions for the realization of an imaginary design goal that could be contrasted with real design could be found in a sign scheme in which objects depicted through drawing, color or mass elements abstracted from the object were determined.
Sezer Tansuğ, “Ömer Uluç”, Galeri Nev Kitabevi, 2003, Page: 25, 26
Oil on paper pasted on canvas
57 x 43 cm
1986, signed
Estimate: 350.000 TL - 450.000 TL
Starting Bid: 240,000 TL
