Emir Furkan Tekkalmaz was born on July 15, 1997 in Eskişehir. In 2011, he started his painting education at Eskişehir Fine Arts High School.

He started his education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in September 2015.

During his university education, he received training at Prof. Nedret Sekban, Dr. Lecturer Ahmet Umur

Deniz workshop.

As an Elective Applied Workshop, he received Lithography Printing training, as well as Fresco, Sgraffito and Secco Techniques at the Fresco Workshop, Leaded and Mosaic Techniques at the Stained Glass Workshop and Gravure Printing studies at the Gravure Workshop. He worked as a Student Assistant at the Fresco Workshop between September 2019 and March 2020.

In August 2020, he graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting with a GPA of 3.41/4.00.

MY UNDERSTANDING OF PAINTING

When the elements of pattern, form, light-dark and color are taken as the main elements that form the painting, I mainly use the elements of pattern, form and light-dark in my paintings and try to create an order by using color as an auxiliary element to support these elements.

In my understanding of form that I create with certain contrasts, the order of focus; fullness, emptiness; diagonal contrasts, horizontals and verticals are the elements that I keep in the foreground in a composition.

The paintings that I create from my testimonies and observations show my personal process, my temporal change and my stages of development. In this adventure, while creating my paintings, I determine certain series and while dealing with these series, I aim to keep in the foreground and show “the effect of the form that emerges with the synthesis of plastic

oppositions, rationality and emotion”.

SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

Eudweard Muybridge managed to photograph the images of a horse in motion in 1878 using innovative scientific techniques, thus pioneering the birth of the art of cinema.

Just like Muybridge’s attempt to capture movement by dividing time into slices, in my paintings, I try to depict the space in time by depicting the rhythmic movement phases of the figure that follow each other, and to reflect the aesthetics and dynamics of the movement performed by a figure such as a “walking horse”, “dancing woman”, etc. on the canvas in a single frame.

“Rhythm III”

2023, 116x72 cm, Pencil on Canvas,

Charcoal Acrylic Paint