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Ömer Uluç (1931 - 2010) Click for Artist Information
”Reclining Nude”
A FAVORITE OF COLLECTORS, ÖMER ULUÇ'S MOST SOUGHT NUDE WORK FROM THE 1980'S...
Interview with Ömer Uluç about his Nude Paintings: "A good painting shows it’s meaning in a long long time. I recently paint nude woman figures. An erotism is present. I draw them from bad quality images of local paparazzi magazines and the unique poses of local models and artists in them. There are shiny and powerful colors and a liberal approach but do all of these really symbolize erotism? In my paintings, a face cannot be a face, nor a body can be a body. There should only be an absolute painting and it had to find it’s meaning, itself. That is why, in my paintings, humans are never being deformed with a motive. For example, there are no humans that have been distorted by fear or anxiety. I see this tendency of the painters for painting such subjects, as a danger. A painter that creates a mise-en-scene that is overly emphasized both emotionally and spiritually, should know that this overly emphasized meaning will disappear first. In our days, the work of art gets old really fast. Modernism brings common tastes and tendencies among artists. Today, there is a breeze of Francis Bacon, artists get attached to it and these common tastes bond the artists together; everyone starts to paint terrorized paintings. Everything gets washed in the same water, every painting is being dipped in this water. The ones who do this should know that this is the first thing to rot. Hundreds of people are talking about estrangement and everybody tells it with the same language. This truth also covers the feeling of being estranged but next thing you know, an artist who works with something else from somewhere else had managed to tell about estrangement with its own language and everything had gained a whole new aspect.
Jale Erzen, “Ömer Uluç ile Söyleşiler, Umut Burnundan Dolaşarak”, Sanatatak Yayınevi, 2013 Sayfa: 34
Acrylic on cardboard pasted on canvas
50 x 70 cm
1987, signed
Estimated Value:350.000TL - 450.000TL
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Ömer Uluç ( 1931 - 2010 )
Ömer Uluç ( 1931 - 2010 )
Uluç was born in Istanbul, in 1931. He started his painting studies in Nuri Iyem Studio (Attic Artists). He first studied Engineering and then Painting in USA; Texas, Boston and New York. He had his first solo exhibition in Boston Earl Pilgrim Gallery in 1955. He conducted research on Art in Paris, USA, Mexico, and Nigeria. His paintings are hiding hidden figurative formations, are based on the his own brushing technique and has a unique aesthetic expression. He was able to carry the creatures in his figurative abstract paintings into sculptures. According to Uluç, every phenomenon that preserves energy is contemporary.
For him, this togetherness of paintings, sculptures and visual objects and their creation processes, create some precise momentums. New constructions, phenomenons, regroupings and installations are emerging from this togetherness and mark their existences. In 1988, Uluç started to design his paintings using multiple canvases and with even bolder brush strokes. Starting from early 90’s, he produced multi canvas paintings that he named as “corbeled”. These paintings were influenced by collage technic and they were carrying the subject to out of the boundaries of its canvas. While late 90’s, Uluç started to produce sculptures with a similar style of his paintings with spiral color balls. While he was using thick robes as a material in the beginning, he began to use big hoses afterwards. Uluç also placed these sculptures in front of his paintings to create unusual installations. Uluç is one of the leading members of his generation in Turkish Contemporary Art.
His works are included in both many Turkish and international museums and private collections. Uluç is also one of the first Turkish contemporary artists who exhibited his art with worldwide known galleries in international contemporary art fairs. Uluç passed away in Istanbul in 2010.
