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Ali Aksoy, Turkey



 

 

 


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Ali Aksoy
Telephone:+90 507 790 39 68
www.aliaksoy.com

 Ali Aksoy is living and working in Antalya (Turkey).

ALI AKSOY was born in Artvin,Turkey in 1957 and graduated from Karadeniz Technical University Department of Civil Engineering.He made an extensive research on the modern and contemporary paintings. In his works , the intensive use of the freedimensioned canvas rather than ordinary rectangular canvas have caused him to be called as ''The painter who doesn't fit into a canvas (frame)''. His 11. th personal exhibition took place in New York Montserrat Art Gallery in 2004 .The free dimensioned paintings he exhibited was admired by the New Yorker Art Collectors.He was choosen as ''The Artist of the Month'' by the Artdecollectors Contemporary Art Gallery in America.When drawing a picture not using the lines and colours with the approach which is as if taking the photographs of the objects,he continues painting works with his own colour and line expression.
 

 
 
 

    1.Amazing, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 70x50 cm, 28x20 in., US$ 3450.00   2.Asian Scenery, 2017, Oil on canvas, 51x41 cm, 20x16 in., US$ 687.00    3.Dance in the descending light, 2017, Oil on canvas, 76x102 cm, 30x40 in., US$ 2750.00    4.Deborah, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 100x50 cm, 40x20 in., US$ 5450.00    5.Dialogue, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 100x70 cm, 40x28 in., US$ 6500.00  6.Heavenly Landscape, 2018, Oil on canvas, 50X60 cm, 20x24 in., US$ 960.00   7.Joyful Island, Oil on canvas, 122 x 152 cm, 48 x 60 in., US$ 7850.00   8.Joyful Trees, Oil on canvas, 51x61 cm, 20x24 in., US$ 920.00   9.Stream, 2018, Oil on canvas, 30x40 cm, 12x16 in., US$ 650.00  10.The Rocks Wake Up, 2018, Oil on canvas, 61x76 cm, 24x30 in., US$ 1350.00  11.AThe Soul of Trees, 2018, Oil on canvas, 76x122 cm, 30x48 in., US$ 2850.00  12.Tree-Dance XIII., 2017, Oil on canvas, 31x41 cm, 12x16 in., US$ 650.00

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Here sketchy buildings were clustered at the center of the canvas and bracketed between vigorous strokes of red blue yellow and black laid down with a broad brush. These roughly curving strokes extended to the edges of the canvas which jutted out like wings at the top of the composition giving the large painting a buoyant feeling as if it were about to take flight. The feathery quality of the brushwork further enhanced the wing-like effect although Aksoy obviously makes no attempt at surreal symbolism and would seemingly prefer for us to view his paintings for the formal rather than their allusive qualities

Yet like Elizabeth Murray another artist who employs shaped supports consistently and effectively Aksoy’s work invariably suggests imagery above and beyond the abstract qualities that lend his paintings their main thrust. Indeed these suggestive bit of imagery imbuc his paintings with a unique evocativeness which adds considerably to their appeal. That said we can do nought but marvel at the skill with which Ali Aksoy dissects space and animates the picture plane with bold swerving lines often in black overlaid with tones of red blue or yellow that convey a spiritual kinship with Mondrian’s palette of brilliant primaries.
Aksoy however is very much the gestural painter employing line calligraphically in the manner of an action painter and the odd shapes of his canvas contribute to the sense of movement in his work by alternately nipping certain shapes in the bud with their abruptly cut away edges or allow others to expand and continue where the limitations of a rectangular canvas would restrict or abort them.

Aksoy exploits such compositional opportunities thoughtfully providing us in the process with an exhilarating new way of looking at the painting of visually inhabiting its space and being pleasantly taken aback by its compositional anomalies its sudden unexpected departures from the norm. In the final analysis there is little more that we can ask from any artist than to surprise us. And that is one thing that Ali Aksoy manages to do consistently catching us off guard and stimulating us again and again with his energetic and engaging shaped canvases.

Chris Weller