Redrum Murder Collage

CEM ULUG b 1971 Istanbul. Raised in Berlin. Lives and works in Berlin. ARTIST STATEMENT Cem Ulug’s works create extraordinary impressions due to distorted and deformed figures, which are created under the influence of the artist’s impulsive reactions to life, and expression of his deepest inner feelings. He uses physical elements from the real world, such as newspapers, advertisements, old dolls, antique frames and attributes, to relate his artworks to reality. In the artist’s works you can see a highly satirical creative spontaneity, which seeks to offend rather than to impress. Though his art is more of a protest movement than a style of art, it also expresses not only anti­war, social and politic issues and critique, but also harmonic and aesthetic combinations of colors and beauty.