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Komet (1941 - 2022) Click for Artist Information
"Un Reve Vert"
THE IMAGINARY, SURREALIST WORK FROM KOMET'S MOST SOUGHT PERIOD THE 80'S...
Dream, Fantasy and Reality: Have to mention that Komet isn’t painting a dream on the contrary he paints the dreams he wants to envision. And because of this Komet needs to extricate, and interpret his dreams and re evaluate his relation to the surreal. With no doubt we cannot state that the whole arrangement of Komet’s fantasies are neither unnatural or synthetic. There are the residues of his actual fantasies his dreams. In his paintings. But when he construes this real fantasy full of objects in an aesthetic and artistic set-up, it’s seems as if he sees the same dreams again. If we take this matter and evaluate it in a larger context we can say that Komet not only sees his own past, his own dreams, but others’ as well. Relevent to Komet’s position a quote from Freud about substance and meaning seems at use: “Happy people don’t dream, only those that haven’t reached complete satisfaction would do such. Unsatisfied desires are the repellant force of dreaming. Every dream is the attempt to satisfy the desire and to change the truth that with holds the attempt.” When we take his work into consideration, Komet’s life is definitely a very unhappy one. No doubt, joy has not disappeared completely, but sense of humor is ready to change to dark comedy which can turn into pain. I would like to say that Komet is seeing a big dream that can encompass all the other dreams within. Therefore the dreams in his work carry a quality of subjectivity.
Ahmet Oktay, “Komet”, Galeri Nev, 1995, Sayfa: 14, 16, 24
Oil on canvas
50 x 65,5 cm
1977, signed
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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.
