Gazi Sansoy

1968 Born in Istanbul
1989-1993 Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphics at Marmara University.
1993-1996 Completed his master degree with Consultant of Mustafa Aslıer.
2007 Established Utopya Platform Art Gallery.
2014 Works his own workshop in Kızıltoprak, Istanbul.

Faceless Series; Lost Bodies of the Renaissance

Starting point for the Faceless Series is Gazi Sansoy's great admiration to the Renaissance paintings and his desire to exist within them. Works he created with this humane and childish passion have extended their limits to human history, art history and consumption culture in time.

Sansoy's modern intervention to European classics resembles our effort to cut out those whom we do not want in the picture and instead put those we like and even ourselves in the picture. This intervention, humorous in character, bases on a naive schizophrenic motivation which as old as the human history. In Faceless Series, Sansoy takes spectacular examples of European painting during Renaissance (especially 16th and 17th century Italy) and prints them on canvas with digital printing. In a way, he erases the figure from paintings whose basic element is the figure. He only deletes visible parts of skin o...