Who is Yavuz Ayhan? (1981-Ankara)Originally from Çankırı, Yavuz Ayhan was born in Ankara in 1981. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. He graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in 2005, and started his thesis-based master’s degree in Gazi University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Fine Arts Education in 2006. He started working as an art teacher at Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Youth Center in 2007. Then, in 2009, he was appointed as a lecturer at Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. He completed his master’s degree in 2010. In 2024, he completed his Proficiency in Art education at Hacettepe University, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Painting.He currently serves as a lecturer at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Faculty of Fine Arts, and continues his work in his own studio.
The artist has one award, eight personal exhibitions and his paintings have been exhibited in nearly fifty competitive and special mixed exhibitions. He has works in official and private collections.Art Perspective;
In the early years of his artistic life, he shaped his paintings with an expressive understanding using the impressions he gained from nature and city life. The artist, who spent his childhood in the years when shanties were a part of city life, makes the traces of this life felt in his paintings. In the following years, the contrasts between shanties and high-rise buildings on his canvas left monumental effects on his paintings. In his recent works, he included beach and shore paintings with different colors, but crowded structures stacked on top of each other, which are also found in shanties, in these works, it is seen that they consist of people. The subject of “asemic writing” and “signature” that he discovered during his art proficiency training constitutes both the theme of his paintings and the subject of his art proficiency thesis.Asemic writing is not a form of writing that can be read with traditional reading style. However, as in abstract painting, it has an open reading style that can contain different meanings for each viewer. In his works containing asemic writing, it is seen that he aims to reflect visuals that create the impression of city walls with asemic writing formations. While writing on wall impressions, the layers formed during asemic writing experiences have also caused the formation of palimpsest structures. Apart from the imposition of word writing that contains meaning content, the formation of chaos created by calligraphic reflections of body movements on the wall texture bears the traces of the texture of life. It can be seen that there are familiar letters and words in his paintings here and there, and he can draw attention to the small meanings it contains by standing out from those written asemic.Just as writing is important in human life, signature is also important for the individuality of the person. Signature, which is extremely important for individuality in the functioning of daily life, is also of great value in the world of art. The signature functions as a plastic value that enriches the aesthetic and semantic dimensions of the work and increases the interaction of the viewer with the work. This use, which emphasizes the interaction between the artist and the viewer, shows the diversity and reshaping potential of artistic expression. Signature plays a key role in the artist’s method of self-expression and the interaction of the work with the viewer. Therefore, the concept of signature in painting should be considered as an element that expands the aesthetic and semantic layers of the work, rather than simply representing the artist’s identity. This perspective shows that the signature is much more than just a sign and plays an important role in giving meaning to art. Signature studies began to take shape with the idea of the infinite alternatives and uniqueness of the works to be realized by considering the signature, which has an important place in human history, as the main theme of the work. Therefore, the works that he shaped with signatures as if emphasizing the importance of the signature are the first examples made with this understanding.
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