Günay Demir ( Abstract Art )

Artist Statement
He is a contemporary artist. In his works, he aims to explore the relationship between forms, colours and shapes,where by the target is to meet at an emotional level with the viewers. Several subjects and objects join each other in these works. There may be anger and calmness together, at the same time in the same painting. He rather has an interactive reaction with colours, shapes and forms during the creation process. He responds to their effect on his own emotions and thoughts at that moment. In this way he's living the experience of painting as he's creating. His creativity flows in an abstract and semi-figurative style into the works. His choice of using bright colours has it’s particular background in the culture in which he grew up. Surrounded with these forms and shapes they took root with in him. They come to surface as new forms with in his paintings; more fluid than geometric. Perhaps, this is his reinterpretation of his culture,one that is elusive rather than defined, always evolving and never finished. This is a culture, where aggression and caring are woven into the daily lives of the people. His paintings reflect this struggle between extremes. Art needs to exist. Art is the way and at the sam...

1972 Born in Diyadin, Ağrı, Turkey
1993-1997 Degree in “Paitings-Art Educator” from the main Board of Painting at the Faculty of Education, Uludağ University, Bursa

Personal Exhibitions
1995 State Art Gallery, Bursa
1997 World Art Gallery and Studio, Bursa
1998 Metropolitan Art Gallery, Bursa
2003-06 Studio & Art Gallery, Datça
2005 Praxiteles-Stipendium, (Land Art-Project), Old Knidos Beach, Datça
Group Exhibitions
1993-96 State Art Gallery, Bursa
1995 “Ayşe Ercüment Kalmık Foundation” Painting Exhibition, İstanbul
1996 Teyyare Kültür Merkezi, Sami Güner Art Gallery, Bursa
1996 “2nd Paper-Work Exhibition”, Mimar Sinan University, Painting-Sculpture Museum, İstanbul 1996 “4th Adana Çimento”, Painting Exhibition, Adana
1996 “17th Contemporary Artists Exhibition”, Mimar Sinan University, Painting-Sculpture Museum, İstanbul
1997 “Young Activity 3”, Tüyap, İstanbul
1997 “Aesthetic Dynamics in Contemporary Turkish Painting” (Gallery Baraz), Koç University, İstanbul
1999 Baykuş Art Gallery, Bursa 2000 Datça Municipal Art House, Datça
2004 “Artist, 14th Istanbul Art Fair”, (Yurt & Dünya Art Gallery), İstanbul
2006 Original Card Exhibition, Sokak Cafe, Istanbul
2008 “Artist, 18th Istanbul Art Fair”, (Yurt & Dünya Art Gallery), İstanbul
2008 “Artform, 4th Ankara Fine Art Fair”, (Yurt & Dünya Art Gallery), İstanbul
2009 “Artist, 19th Istanbul Art Fair”, (Yurt & Dünya Art Gallery), İst...