Yusuf Çetin

Who is Yusuf Çetin? (1963-Adana)

He was born in Adana in 1963. He completed his primary and secondary education there. He graduated from Işıklar Military High School in 1981 and from the Air Force Academy Aircraft Engineering Department in 1985 with a Bachelor’s degree as a lieutenant. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1997 and became a staff officer. He served in various ranks of the Air Force Command and temporary overseas assignments. He completed his master’s degree in International Relations. He served as a Military Attaché in Paris between 2000-2003.

He retired in 2008 while he was a staff colonel. He started his painting studies as a charcoal drawing in high school. He continued during his university years. During his 3-year duty in Paris, he received drawing and oil painting training from French teachers, and after his retirement, he received oil painting lessons from Cafer Tabak and other academic painters in Ankara. He is a member of GESAM (Turkish Fine Art Work Owners Association) and AGSAD (Anatolian Visual Arts Association) and currently continues his painting works in his own studio in Kızılay-Ankara.

In addition to his personal exhibitions, he has participated in many group exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul with painting workshops. He is married with 2 children and speaks French and English very well.

Art Perspective;

As an artist, I can say that the rapid change in living conditions, the pleasure, excitement and beauty it gives to us humans and sometimes the disappointments resulting from contradictions inspire me.
In my paintings, I aim to express these changes and differences in life with an impressionist approach, supported by figurative elements. The most important phenomenon that gives people the desire to live or develops their existing desires is the changes experienced in our world and our lives. Let’s think about it, if every poet wrote the same kind of poems, every writer produced novels on the same subjects or every person preferred standard life patterns by wearing the same clothes, we would not be able to create new motivation for ourselves in a monotonous order and would not enjoy life as much.

As a philosophy, I also aim to portray the desire and beauty that differences create in me with the theme of “Difference is Beautiful”. I express these differences as a whole in environmental conditions, objects, anatomical features and colors, In this context, I try to choose the anatomical distortion technique, color selection, background and theme in the figures I use freely, with the inspiration given by my feelings and the emotions that dominate me.