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Olcay Kuş

OLCAY KUŞ (1985 -   )

Olcay Kuş was born in İzmir in 1985. He graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, Fahri Sümer’s Atelier. The artist depicts street walls, posters, stencils, screen prints which usually go unnoticed by passers-by, to immortalize them on canvas by using spray paint. The hidden use of newspapers as a metaphor representing our daily life, is the main theme of his works and allows the public to link these works with their daily life. Although the figures the artist uses have a “familiar and trivial” look, the repetition of these images on canvass transforms them into metaphors symbolizing the hectic life of a metropolis. The artist lives and works in Istanbul.