Who is Ali İrgin? (1987-Elazığ)Born in Arıcak, Elazığ in 1987.
Graduated from Fırat University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Painting and Art Teaching in 2012. He has held 8 solo exhibitions. He has participated in many competitive and group exhibitions, national and international art workshops.His interviews have been published in the Culture and Art Website on Networks, Ankara Life Magazine, Anadolu Life, Anatolia Magazine, and Güney Rüzgarı Magazine. His works are included in official and private collections both domestically and internationally.
He continues his artistic work in his own studio.Artistic Perspective;
Why Networks? Throughout my artistic journey, I was in search of a unique style through many different experiments. I was intensely striving to do what hadn’t been done, to try what hadn’t been tried. My first encounter with Networks was as follows: While preparing for a national painting competition, I created a painting depicting the struggle for life, the fight for bread, but the painting lacked an emphasis on struggle and captivity. I was tired of thinking about what to do with my unfinished painting, so I went outside the studio and sat down. While I was contemplating, I suddenly noticed a torn net in front of me. At that moment, an idea struck me, and I grabbed the torn net and ran back to the studio. I think I had found the material I was looking for. I thought about what to do with the net, and after anatomical examination, I applied it to canvas using a pressing method. In this way, I made many paintings with figures in them. Over time, I sometimes put figures inside the nets, sometimes portraits. Sometimes various animal figures appeared in the nets, sometimes I threw nets over crowds of people, sometimes debris got caught in the nets. We became so identified with the nets that it was time to give them a leading role. The nets emerged as figures, as abstract or semi-abstract compositions on canvas, painted with paint. My childhood adventure of fishing with nets continues as a hobby. My relationship with nets has shaped my art without me even realizing it. I think this is the best example of the question, “Why nets?” The “Nets” have become a beautiful example in my life of the subconscious emerging as consciousness. So, since I started creating abstract compositions with “Nets,” are the “Nets” you see now the fishing nets we know? Of course not. Although fishing nets initially shaped my art, these “Nets” have now become my art. With a new metaphor of “Nets,” I embark on an inner journey into the viewer’s emotions and thoughts. “Nets” offer you an untried, unexperienced utopia. Every viewer who sets out on this journey with “Nets” determines their own path. With “Nets,” I offer you the elixir of imagining and living in an intellectual utopia. While presenting this inner journey, I try to express it in my own style, reflecting it within a spiral of nets and networks. “Nets,” with their plastic language and style, create a separate metaphor in each composition as a figure, an image. Series and works such as “Springs Will Come Despite You,” “Nirvana,” “Infinity,” “Rhythmic Reflection,” and “Tree of Hope” are products of these emotions and thoughts.
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