Adnan Çoker - "From Line to Tone"
ADNAN ÇOKER'S WORLD OF ART...
There is no destructiveness in Adnan Çoker’s world. He does not view life pessimistically. He hasn’t severed his relationship with the world yet. On the contrary, he proceeds on his course of art by reckoning with traditions. It is nearly impossible to read writings of Malevic and correlate with his paintings and not feel grief. Why? Is it because his utopia is not a bright one which gives happiness? Or is it because of the suprematism which he fanatically believes in that became a religion for him? (Lets remember the paintings seen as icons in which he minimized color and form) I don’t know. Adnan Çoker’s paintings don’t leave this kind of effect on the viewer; they are far from awakening feelings like joy, grief etc. Regardless of the black space, they awaken an infinite feeling of stilness. Colors sparkling in void, takes in the eye in the painting and the eye starts to think. This is yet a thinking in the process of sensation. As for me, the unlikely attractiveness of these paintings originates from this.
Nazan İşpiroğlu, “Adnan Çoker Retrospektif 2010”, Beltaş, 2010, Sayfa: 330
Acrylic on oil
60 x 60 cm
2019, signed
Estimate: 200.000 TL - 300.000 TL
Starting Bid: 140.000 TL
