Fevzı̇ Karakoç - Turkish Painting Association

Who is Fevzı̇ Karakoç (1947-Ankara)

1968-72 State Academy of Applied Fine Arts
(aka. Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts since 1982)
1979 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg 1983 Proficiency in Art, Printmaking
1986 Associate Professor
1993 Professor
2002 Working at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts until January 2002 Working at Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts since February

Art Perfective;
The very reason memory exists is the past tense.
Fevzi Karakoç never detaches himself from color. Yet when one looks closely at paintings that seem almost washed in color, it becomes clear that only a few hues actually find a place on the surface.
And still, in some canvases, even with such limited chromatic presence, one can trace the marks of a flawless storm.
Even if you remove the figures—or the figure-like forms—the ground continues to ripple, ready to boil and erupt like a mass of molten lava.
Especially in the works that reflect different shades of gray or black, one senses a moment of formation, or of transformation.
The inner space of the canvas, swept by wind, generates an unceasing energy propelled by a source we cannot name…
At times, the horses are so swift that there is hardly a moment left for the traces of their own bodies to fade behind them.
The horses photographed by Eadweard Muybridge, galloping in full stride, were unaware that they would one day serve an art form yet to be born—cinema; Yet those horses continue to run across the screen even today.
Who can know—perhaps Karakoç’s horses, moving from canvas to canvas in a Muybridge-like sequence, will one day continue their gallop across the terrain of another art form.
No one can tell. But this vision I imagine feels far more tangible than any fantasy that might attempt to fasten wings onto horses.

Awards;
1979 The City of Salzburg Honor Award
1981 State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition Award 1983 State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition Award
1983 Viking Paper, Printmaking Award

Solo Exhibitions;
1972 German Cultural Center, Istanbul
1980 Ministry of Culture State Gallery of Fine Arts, Istanbul
1981 Im Art Gallery, Istanbul
1982 Gallery Lebriz, Istanbul
1983 Istanbul Municipality Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul
1984 Doku Art Gallery, Ankara
1985 Akbank Art Gallery, Bursa
1987 Antik Art Gallery, Ankara
1989 Palet Art Gallery, Eskisehir
1989 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
1991 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
1993 Yasar Education and Culture Foundation Art Gallery, Izmir
1993 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
1993 Falez Art Gallery, Antalya
1995 Emlak Art Gallery, Ankara
1995 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
1996 Arda Art Gallery, Ankara
1996 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
1997 Yasar Education and Culture Foundation Art Gallery, Izmir
1998 Arda Art Gallery, Ankara
1999 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2001 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2001 Yasar Education and Culture Foundation Art Gallery, Izmir
2002 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2005 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2006 Yasar Education and Culture Foundation Art Gallery, Izmir
2007 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2007 CKM Art Gallery, Istanbul
2009 Armoni Art Gallery, Ankara
2009 Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul
2011 Mackamodern Art Gallery, Istanbul
2011 Linart Art Gallery, Istanbul
2011 Ciragan Kempinsky, Istanbul
2012 Arete Art Gallery, Ankara
2012 Yasar Education and Culture Foundation Art Gallery, Altinyunus, Izmir
2013 Ciftci Towers, Istanbul
2013 Arte Istanbul, Istanbul
2014 Turkish American Association, Izmir
2014 Armoni Art Gallery, Ankara
2015 İş Sanat Kibele Art Gallery, Istanbul
2016 Gizsanat Gallery, Istanbul
2016 Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation, Izmir
2017 Bilkent University Art Gallery, Ankara
2017 Teraki Foundation Art Gallery, Istanbul
2019 “Dream of Karya” Art Suites Gallery, Bodrum
2020 “Transitions” Gallery 11/17, Istanbul
2020 Türkan Şoray Cultural Center, Antalya
2020 Arda Art Gallery, Ankara
2020 Antique and Art Fair (Winsor-Newton), Lütfi Kırdar Convention Center, Istanbul
2020 “Beyond Mount Qaf” Muratpaşa Art Gallery, Antalya
2022 “Beyond the Image” Istanbul Equestrian Club
2022 “Symphony for the Horse” Zeytinburnu Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul
2024 Roome Art Gallery, Fethiye, Muğla
2024 Arda Art Gallery, Ankara
2024 “And Red” Exhibition Decolage Art Space, Istanbul
2025 “Traces of the Past” Timora Art Gallery, Ankara
2025 Alpek Art Gallery, Antalya
2025 Taşbaşı Art Gallery, Ordu Municipality, Ordu

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