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Komet

KOMET (1941 -  2022 )

He was born in Çorum in 1941. Between 1960 and 1967, he worked in the Halil Dikmen and Zeki Faik İzer Workshops at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (now known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University). In 1971, he went to Paris with a state scholarship and studied at Vincence University, Department of Plastic Arts.

He is known for his figurative works dominated by the expressionist approach. Komet's figures, located in an unreal and/or imaginary space, create the impression of individuals from a past world reflected in the present and symbols of human phenomenon. Towards the mid-1970s, he began to create works that showed continuity with the meaning and psychological atmosphere of his old paintings. However, since these years, the Turkish type with its villagers and townspeople has been replaced by Western types, and irregular crowded groups have been replaced by single figures and groups of double or triple figures. The theme of death and pain, which previously had an introverted meaning, turned into a consciously living expression in these works.

In his paintings, where the main element is the figure and the event is constructed depending on this element, Komet emphasizes both the figure and the event with sharp lines and colors, and the use of stains and colors that have a shocking effect. On the other hand, the environment in which the figure and the event are placed is much more romantic, and the artist has made the contrast even more obvious by using a transparent painting technique and soft colors. He increased the impact of the painting by deliberately using paint bleeds from time to time.

From 1973 to 1981, the artist made paintings dominated by Neo-Romantic, Neo-Expressionist and Post-Modernist expressions, and after this date, he achieved a completely independent expression. He opened approximately forty-five personal exhibitions, fifteen of which were in Turkey and nine in Paris. Works; It is located in museums such as the Lausanne Canton Museum, Vienna Museum of Modern Arts, Copenhagen Museum of Graphic Arts, Paris Museum of Modern Art and Istanbul Modern. The singer died in Istanbul in 2022.