Ergin İnan - "Wine of Color Flows to My Hands from Your Drunken Eyes"
ERGİN İNAN’S “GROTESQUE HEAD” PAINTINGS…
In his Grotesque Head paintings, Ergin İnan masterfully combines psychological depth, visual tension, and philosophical inquiry. Renowned for his deep engagement with themes of identity, time, and memory, the artist overturns traditional aesthetic conventions in these portraits inviting the viewer into a multilayered world where beauty and distortion, the sacred and the uncanny, coexist.
In İnan’s work, the concept of the “grotesque” does not merely point to the bizarre or the disturbing; rather, it symbolizes a fractured reality, where inner truth emerges through the distortion of outward form. The portraits may feature asymmetrical facial features, exaggerated expressions, or symbolic overlays that disrupt traditional human representation. Yet within this dissonance lies a potent emotional charge one that draws attention to the fragility and complexity of being human.
Influenced by Byzantine iconography and contemporary Western expressionism, İnan fuses Eastern metaphysical traditions with a modern visual language. In his Grotesque Head paintings, the viewer is presented not just with a face, but with a philosophical mirror a portrait not of appearance, but of essence.
İsmail Tunalı, “Ergin İnan-9 Grotesk Kafa”, Artist, 2007
Acrylic on wood
50 x 40 cm
1983, signed
Estimate: 180.000 TL - 260.000 TL
Starting Bid: 130.000 TL
