Fatih Gurbuz born 1985 in the province of Diyarbakir, is an artist living in Istanbul, Turkey. He attended the Diyarbakir Anatolian Fine Arts High School then the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Department and earned a masters degree from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
In March 2016 he had a solo sold out exhibition, Calm Disturbance,” in Istanbul
“The fundamental goal of my studies of the psychosis of mind-spirit-body concepts is to respond to questions and then, rather than insist on the response, to ask questions of the observer in a thought-provoking way.
According to Nietzsche, who speaks of a being that surrounds, nourishes, and guides mankind, nature is the fount of creation. In this sense, the individual’s understanding of nature in his comprehension of his own boundaries within the cosmos. Acting from here, I build my compositions based on the central triad nature-animal-human.
The place, the setting for this three-element composition develops independently of a hierarchal arrangement; as a result, the work’s intertwined events and my own spiritual movements present the most important contribution to the composition’s formation.
Using realist technique’s, I create a supernatural or transcendent atmosphere in my works – sometimes supported with daily events, sometimes with mythological elements – taking as the pictures chief elements the figures of the human being, who exists within a limitless space, and those of the animals that accompany him.
Body and spirit, or meaning and form… we can call this ‘the dialectical l harmony of the absolute.”
“The fundamental goal of my studies of the psychosis of mind-spirit-body concepts is to respond to questions and then,
rather than insist on the response, to ask questions of the observer in a thought-provoking way.
According to Nietzsche, who speaks of a being that surrounds, nourishes, and guides mankind, nature is the fount of creation. In this sense, the individual’s understanding of nature in his comprehension of his own boundaries within the cosmos. Acting from here, I build my compositions based on the central triad nature-animal-human.
The place, the setting for this three-element composition develops independently of a hierarchal arrangement; as a result, the work’s intertwined events and my own spiritual movements present the most important contribution to the composition’s formation.
Using realist technique’s, I create a supernatural or transcendent atmosphere in my works – sometimes supported with daily events, sometimes with mythological elements – taking as the pictures chief elements the figures of the human being, who exists within a limitless space, and those of the animals that accompany him.
Body and spirit, or meaning and form… we can call this ‘the dialectical l harmony of the absolute.”
