Ahmet Ozel

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 This approach of Ozel leads us to Heidegger's theory of "espace in space" and leaves behind the outdated understanding of linear, isotropic and three-dimensional space.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 vi...

1976-1982 Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul/ Bachelor or Masters Degree of Painting

1995 Marmara Univeristy/ Phd Degree

Selections of Solo Exhibitions:
1988 Levent Akbank Art Gallery, Istanbul
1990 Yonca Art Gallery, Istanbul
1996 ‘METEORS’Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul
Halkbank Art Gallery, Ankara
1996 Simurg Art Gallery, Istanbul
1997 National Museum Gallery, Nalchik, Kabardina Balkar-Russia
1998 Purart Art Gallery,Istanbul
1999 ‘FIRSTS’,3K Art Gallery, Istanbul
2000 ‘FORMATIONS’,Vakko Art Gallery, Ankara, Istanbul
2001 Epsilon Art Gallery, Bodrum-Mugla
2002 LCA Gallery, Moscow, Rostov, Maikop, Nalchik, Vladikavkaz-Russia
2002 Roikin Day I Can Gallery, Toyama-Japan
2003 ‘HU/MAN’,Atatürk Culture Center, Istanbul
2005 ‘STAIRS’,Antik Art Gallery, Istanbul
2006 ‘INNER VOICES’,Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul
2009 ‘MAGMA’,Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul
‘WINDOWS’,RH Art Gallery, Istanbul
2015 ‘INNER VOICES’,Bohem Art Gallery, Istanbul
‘MIRACLES’,Nurol Art Gallery, Bodrum, Muğla
2017 ‘MOMENT’ Bohem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2018 ‘INNER SUN’,Galley Diani, Istanbul

Selection of Group Exhibitions
1981 III. Art Festival, Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul Art Gallery
1982 Group Exhibition, Lebriz Art Gallery-Istanbul
Istanbul Exhibition of Our Time Artists, Painting and Scupture Museum,
Istanbul
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