Mucize /Miracle Painting

Ahmet Ozel's Art By Russian art critic Slava Len: ...Ozel has a the bright academic background. After having graduated from both Kabatas High School for Boys and Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul, he strengthened his skills on art by scrutinizing the paintings of the masters of the Renaissance in Italy (Roma, Florence). In the 1990s, he was inspired by Russian painters. Of course, the painters he met were not limited to abstract painters. Ruslan Tsrim, the "epic painter" and "master of colors" who affected people deeply and worked in Nalchik, was among the artists who influenced Ahmet Ozel. According to Ahmet Ozel, abstract painting is to make a general judgment of the object and compose the object on the espace of canvas smartly. He believes that the concept of espace in painting is not something artists are born with, but is phenomenon occurred and structured by the artist's creativeness. This approach of Ozel leads us to Heidegger's theory of "espace in space" and leaves behind the outdated understanding of linear, isotropic and three-dimensional space. The filling of forms with colors special for the artist and the distribution of "form-color" in unique spaces created gives rise to Ozel's painting, and then it lies with viewers, who will watch the painting as if they created the painting together with the artist, to understand and interpret the painting. Because, Ozel's paintings are unhidden paintings and are so uniquely created that they attract the viewer to themselves and invite the viewer to be interested in them in an understanding of color-shape construction. Ozel transfers Niels Bohr's concept of "complementarity" from natural sciences to art's supernatural sciences. Fortunately, today's viewers have an educational background toward the 20th century's art movements and to "read" what is written under abstract paintings. The code of Ozel's abstract paintings seems to be recognizable by the viewer from the very beginning. One can easily get enchanted by the uniqueness of Ozel's language of form-color. Unhidden pure colors which the artist openheartedly admits he uses in his paintings always give the viewer a deep feeling of joy. Just like someone chasing after "beauty" and picking the most beautiful pebbles in terms of shape and color while walking on a Mediterranean beach, the viewer perceives and feels his own "beauty", which he has been looking for, on Ozel's paintings.