Oil on canvas / 2014   180 cm

About The Work

Koç develops an understanding that analyzes the world we live in with a critical eye since 2007 and makes a positive contribution to the current discussions about the understanding of contemporary figurative painting, which today extends from the imitation of nature to the reproduction of reality.  The Next Day series takes its inspiration from many post-apocalyptic films such as The Walking Dead, The Road, I'm Legend, including the film “The Next Day”, which gives its name to the exhibition. Aries covers the dystopian patterns he draws with thick layers of colored paint with white impasto and draws attention to the existential struggle between nature and humanity with the opposing connection he creates between the surface and the underlying colored Decking Decking.

It creates interpretations of our reality by deconstructing every steel structure that has a functionality in the public space or is included in the daily life of a person in industrial-looking abandoned modern cities, reconsidering the social infrastructure of the concreted disaster we live in. We witness the deconstructed unmanned cities eventually becoming dysfunctional by being surrounded by the endemic plants of Anatolia and the great victory of nature, which is a greater force than man.

About The Artist

he was born in Akşehir in 1981. he entered Marmara University in 1998 and graduated from the art department of Painting in 2002. he completed his master's degree at the same university in 2006. He is currently working as a lecturer at Doğuş University.

To date, he has held 14 solo exhibitions and has taken part in more than 100 national and international group exhibitions. RH+art Magazine “Young Artist of the Year 2005”, 70th anniversary of the year 2010. He was awarded 17 awards, including awards such as the Achievement Award of the State Painting and Sculpture Competition.

Seydi Murat Koç continues his studies in his private workshop located in Istanbul-Moda.

About The Exhibition

The "Hope and Trust" Exhibition is organized in order to contribute to the “Women and Child Friendly Spaces” project carried out by the association in cooperation with Kültür A.Ş., the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality subsidiary of the Art for Goodness Association, in Hatay. You can visit the association's website to get detailed information about the project.

About the Sale of Works

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