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Adem Genç

ADEM GENÇ (1944 -  )

Turkish painter Adem Genç was born in Rize Ardeşen in 1944. He graduated from Ankara-Gazi Education Institute, Department of Painting and Crafts in 1965, and during his education there, he participated in the figure drawings of Refik Epikman, Adnan Turani and Turan Erol. Between 1969 and 1971, he attended Figure Drawing and Engraving workshops at Bournemouth and Pool College of Art. He was later accepted into Martin's School of Art/Advanced Painting program, which featured studio critiques and lectures by invited faculty and renowned artists such as Frederick Gore, John Edwards, Henry Mundy, John Jeremy Kenrick Moon, Antony Carol Eduardo Paolazzi, and Hubert Andrew Freeth. When he returned to Turkey, he was appointed to the Painting Department of Samsun Education Institute. Later, in 1978, he became a Lecturer at Ege University Faculty of Art and Architecture, where he completed his final education in Fine Arts and his doctorate in Art Theory. During the establishment of Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, he served as Head of Department, Deputy Dean and Master's Program Manager of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

During his studies at Ankara-Gazi Education Institute, Genç made reproductions of western painters such as Rubens, Constable, Matisse, Cezanne and Van Gogh. Until 1969, he was particularly influenced by the German expressionists. After 1960, he took part in various art activities with his unique language searches and artistic approaches within the framework of Post-Painter Abstraction and Support Surface painting customs and traditions. According to Genç, every idea that turns into a dream has an underlying reality. At the beginning of 1989, the artist began analyzing images with a somewhat poetic expression, using a combination of geometric, abstract and textural values reminiscent of volumetric formations on cosmic surfaces. He then dissected these geometric shapes and transformed them into an amorphous structure, like spots of contrasting color, as in Amorphous Signs (1988). In 1990, he created oval, cosmic and amorphous images, sometimes floating on a monochromatic plane surface and sometimes in space, with the figure-surface relationship he created with brush strokes. Since 2000, he has been working on projects such as Why Objects Are Like This in a philosophical sense, Res Ipsa Loquitur as a legal term, and Evil Eye Talisman in a mysterious sense.

The artist has opened many personal exhibitions at home and abroad and participated in invited and group events. Adem Genç's works were included in many collections at home and abroad. These are works that were purchased in the Deutschbank Collection, the Doha Arab Museum of Modern Art, the UK, the USA, Australia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Romania, South Korea and the PRC, and the Russian Federation, and entered official and private collections, and are exhibited in many countries.