İbrahim Keleş

Who is İbrahim Keleş? (1957-Kars)

Born in Kars Sarıkamış in 1957, completed primary, secondary and high school in Ankara.
1977-1980 Istanbul State Applied Fine Arts School Graphics Department
1981-1985 Marmara University GSF Ceramics Department graduate.
He drew children’s book illustrations and cartoons for culture and art magazines in a graphic studio in Ankara. He was the visual director of YARIN Magazine. In 1994, he founded Reklamlar LTD. and realized original creative designs and campaigns for various public and private institutions. He managed domestic and international political election campaigns. He made and published illustrative City Views paintings, also known as Vedüt Resim. He realized 7 personal exhibitions consisting of his graphic designs. He continues his work in his own studio in Antalya. He is a member of UPSD International Plastic Arts Association, Ankara Exlibris Association and Ankara Jazz Association.

Art Perspective;

İbrahim Keleş is an original artist who continues his creative activities with an aesthetic style, with a concern for essence and form; who sees art as an activity area that gives meaning and defines life; who presents the interfaces of graphics, illustration and design by shaping them skillfully and with a fluid transition in order to diversify his paintings and make them accessible. Light, shadow, contrast, rhythm, color; are his indispensable elements. He transforms his imagination, inspirations and motivation into artistic compositions with these; and integrates essence and form with his own style. According to him, art is an aesthetic way of comprehending the world and creating meaning. It is not only a way of experiencing life through aesthetics; it is also a meaningful expression of his intuitions, feelings, desires and thoughts. He creates a memory with each painting. In today’s world where art is becoming more and more commodified and losing its vital values ​​as it becomes commodified, trying to enter the path of escape from social realities, his is to produce art through a counterculture, to redefine the meaning of art through social realities. To translate life into his own painting with an exciting and questioning language. The emotions his art expresses and evokes are as numerous and meaningful as anyone could be.

İBRAHİM KARAOĞLU
Art Writer/Curator