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Adnan Çoker (1927 -2022) Click for Artist Information
"From Line to Tone"
ADNAN ÇOKER'S WORLD OF ART...
There is no destructiveness in Adnan Çoker’s world. He does not view life pessimistically. He hasn’t severed his relationship with the world yet. On the contrary, he proceeds on his course of art by reckoning with traditions. It is nearly impossible to read writings of Malevic and correlate with his paintings and not feel grief. Why? Is it because his utopia is not a bright one which gives happiness? Or is it because of the suprematism which he fanatically believes in that became a religion for him? (Lets remember the paintings seen as icons in which he minimized color and form) I don’t know. Adnan Çoker’s paintings don’t leave this kind of effect on the viewer; they are far from awakening feelings like joy, grief etc. Regardless of the black space, they awaken an infinite feeling of stilness. Colors sparkling in void, takes in the eye in the painting and the eye starts to think. This is yet a thinking in the process of sensation. As for me, the unlikely attractiveness of these paintings originates from this. Nazan İşpiroğlu, “Adnan Çoker Retrospektif 2010”, Beltaş, 2010, Sayfa: 330
Acrylic on oil
60 x 60 cm
2019, signed
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Adnan Çoker
ADNAN ÇOKER (1927 - 2022)
Çoker was born in Istanbul in 1927. He graduated from Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts (currently known as Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) in 1951. He moved to Paris in 1955 upon being awarded a state scholarship by winning European Concour. He worked in the studios of Andre Lhote, Henri Goetz, Hayter and Emilio Vedova in Paris. In his abstract-minimal paintings, which he started with a level of efficacy based on staining values of the paint and then clarified with a new dimension of a spatial illusion, he queries the basic concepts, such as surface–space, plain–space and keeps the new values to be provided by these concepts in terms of artistic content on the agenda. Adnan Çoker is a representative of the early examples of abstractive Turkish painting of 1950’s. Çoker, who created a unique aesthetic style in Turkish painting history, passed away in 2022.
