BIOGRAPHY

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

In September 2015, he started studying at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Fine Arts,

Painting Department.

During his university education, he received training in the workshops of Prof. Nedret Sekban and Dr. Lecturer Ahmet Umur Deniz.

As an Elective Applied Workshop, he received training in Lithography Printing, as well as Fresco, Sgraffito and Secco Techniques in the Fresco Workshop, Lead and Mosaic Techniques in the Stained Glass Workshop and Engraving Printing in the Engraving Workshop.

Between September 2019 and March 2020, he worked as a Student Assistant in the Fresco Workshop. In August 2020, she 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 drawing, form, light-dark and color elements are taken as the main elements that make up a painting, in my paintings I mainly use drawing, form and light-dark elements and try to create an order by using color as a supporting element to support these elements.

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

The paintings I create from my testimonies and observations show my personal process, my temporal change and my developmental stages. In this journey, while creating my paintings, I determine certain series and while dealing with these series, I aim to prioritize and show "the effect of the form that emerges from the synthesis of plastic contrasts, rationality and emotion".

INSPIRATION

In 1878, Eudweard Muybridge succeeded in photographing a horse in motion using innovative scientific techniques, thus pioneering the birth of cinematic art.

Like Muybridge's effort to capture movement by dividing time into segments, in my paintings I try to depict space within time by portraying the rhythmic phases of movement of the figure, and to reflect the aesthetics and dynamics of movement in the action performed by a figure such as a "walking horse" or a "dancing woman" in a single frame on the canvas.

Simultaneous, 114x146 cm, Pencil, Charcoal, Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 2026