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Zekai Ormancı (1949 - 2008) Click for Artist Information
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Visual Misconceptions: This tendency to establish the symbol in its concrete form declines in the years to follow, in the shape of mould-images of the objects symbols, abstracked from the location. The observations treated and reflected have then each been turn into a metaphysical object of illusion through patches of objects added to the nature. These objects of illusion, which have undergone a conscious “selection” process and alienated within themselves, gain an entity of composition with a meaning hidden inside. Indicative of the fact that the planning and application are handled in separate stages, this approach is a “must of the technique” according to the artist. This effort realised through considering painting beyond its conveying function, in other words exceeding its goal to describe, is linked with the aim to produce paintings that refer to nothing else but those that exists in the nature through distancing oneself from objects and from the descriptions they represent, and via emphasising “plastic values” and “the technique”.
Kaya Özsezgin, “Zekai Ormancı”, Artdepo, 2007, sayfa: 71, 74
Oil on canvas
97 x 130 cm
2004, signed
This work is on page 251 of the book titled 40th Year in Zekai Ormancı Art, prepared by İş Bankası Culture Publications.
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Zekai Ormancı
Zekai Ormancı (1949 - 2008)
He was born in Aydın in 1949. He graduated from Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (now known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) Özdemir Altan Workshop. Zekai Ormancı, who worked in the Zeki Faik İzer Workshop for about a year at the Academy, became Özdemir Altan's student after İzer retired in 1969-70. After his first years as a student, Ormancı came second in the student exhibition held in Ankara in 1973, when he was in the last year of the Academy. In 1980, he studied with Albert Bitran at the International Salzburg Summer Academy, which he attended with a scholarship from the Austrian Government. Upon his return to Turkey, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, now known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. In the same year, he founded the carpet-painting (tapisserie) workshop. The artist, who received the title of associate professor in 1986, became a professor in 1995.
In 1990, when his project for a carpet painting for the Presidential Mansion Hall of Honor was accepted, he created a 340 x 900 cm. He completed the approximately 30 m² carpet painting in 9 months, with the contributions of his student, painter Harun Acı, in an intense work tempo. The work still hangs in the Presidential Mansion. In 1993, he was invited to represent Turkey in the International 'Texliles Mediterranees' exhibition organized by ARTIFEX, headquartered in Paris. He participated in the exhibition held in Gruissan, Narbonne, France, with the participation of many famous artists from Mediterranean Countries, with two carpet paintings.
The artist, who worked as a lecturer at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Fine Arts for many years, focused on transferring the pattern and color compositions in his paintings to carpet arrangements, and in those years, his works based on decoupage of dense object pieces and the aesthetics of composition in contradictory positions, illusion with reality, objective shaping. The artist, whose works are in various museums and collections at home and abroad, passed away in Istanbul in 2008, leaving behind hundreds of works.
