Mustafa Çavuş - Turkish Painting Association

Who is Mustafa Çavuş? (1979 – Trabzon)

He was born in Trabzon in 1979. He graduated from the Painting and Crafts Teaching program of Atatürk University Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education in 2002 and was appointed as a teacher the same year. The artist, who has works in oil painting, acrylic and watercolor, is also interested in traditional arts and uses the traditional arts education techniques he received in his works. The artist has participated in national and international exhibitions. The artist is also the founder and president of the Rize Plastic Arts Association. He continues his duty at Rize Türk Telekom Fine Arts High School.

Art Perspective:

Let’s consider it as a language; Let’s tell it plainly, Plainly life…
There is no need for fancy words and sophistication. Plain language; telling it without trying to create splendor by adding foreign words. What does the master say, “the flickering flame in the lamp is cold”, do you think there is more to it…
This must be the effort and pain on the canvas; The plain(ce) language of feelings and thoughts.

Giving up the unnecessary for the sake of important things is the core idea of minimal life. Happiness should not be sought in objects, but in life itself. With simplicity and purification, a person’s journey of self-searching begins; like Yunus…

What disturbs us is not things, but the importance we attribute to those things.
Epictetus

With this approach, I investigate the images formed in perception as a result of technology providing new perspectives on the world and nature, and I examine new approaches in visual arts. In my works, you will see a plain and simple approach to the world from a bird's eye view. I adopt a sincere, plain and carefree language in my works, starting from the abstract and concrete patterns of nature that attract attention when viewed from this perspective. Of course, the education I received in the field of Traditional Turkish Arts (marbling, miniature, illumination) also has technical and stylistic reflections in my works. This also comes from the essence, from us, in addition to the universal line of understanding. This also makes me happy.
“The bird’s eye view of the boat, sea and land also contains completely different effects in nature.
The boat makes you feel the journey to peace and freedom.
That’s the feeling; we are always facing freedom but we have ties behind.
Freedom is always ready like a boat on the shore and the peace of knowing this...
A vast blue and green depth...

Exhibitions
2014 Colors of the Black Sea mixed exhibition – Trabzon
2016 Colors of the Black Sea mixed exhibition – Trabzon
2017 Başkent University mixed exhibition - Ankara
2018 "Colors of the North" painting exhibition – CKM Istanbul
2019 "Trabzon in the 101st Year of its Foundation" program mixed exhibition - Ankara
2019 "Haudless Scream Hocali" painting exhibition – Azerbaijan
2019 Sarıyer Municipality "Rize Plastic Arts Association" painting exhibition
2020 Rize Plastic Arts Association Online Painting Exhibition
2021 Rize Plastic Arts Association "Beginning" mixed exhibition
2022 T.R. Ministry of Culture and Tourism Capital Culture Road Festival 75th State Painting and Sculpture
Exhibition (Curator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Devabil Kara)
The artist's award-winning work was featured as the poster visual of the 2022 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Capital Culture Road Festival painting exhibition.

Solo Exhibitions
September ESKICIRAK Art Gallery (Rize)
Marina Yacht Clup Bodrum – Merqezart Alternative Art Space
Birca Art Gallery (Ankara)

Fairs Participated

2023 Artankara (Birca Art Gallery)
2023 Artcontact (Birca Art Gallery)

Awards
2018 Gazi University "unheard scream hocalı" International Painting Competition exhibition award
2021 Şamil Foundation "Freedom on Canvas" International Painting Competition exhibition award (UPSD Art Gallery – Istanbul)
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism 75th State Painting Sculpture Competition exhibition award