1958 born in Isparta, Turkey | lives and works in Istanbul
7 copies (titled, numbered, dated and signed (each work slightly differs --> multiple)
7 copies, titled, numbered, dated and signed (each work slightly idffers --> multiple)
The Turkish artist Tayfun Erdogmus connects the past with the present, eastern with western art and nature with science. Always in association with scripture, he arranges flowers, leaves in lines, adds geometric shapes of paper and embeds these elements in several layers of translucent lacquer. He succeeds in communicating cross-cultural differences and similarities with the help of an abstract language, which preceded the confrontation with art, aesthetics, science, culture and history. Symbolically charged flowers like roses, tulips and daffodils are - due to this technique - purely formal elements; they become a means of narration, part of his personal style, far away from any decorative idea. The French term of nature morte is not approved here in image structure, but due to the use of dead material becomes re-evaluated.
During his 3-month DAAD scholarship stay here in Berlin between November 2009 and January 2010, Tayfun has produced a very delicate series of finely structured handmade papers in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
In einer unprätentiösen und wie selbstverständlich anmutenden Weise arbeitet Tayfun Erdogmus mit getrockneten und gepressten Blüten, die er zusammen mit handgeschöpften Papieren in die (halb-) transparenten Oberflächenschichten seiner Bilder einarbeitet; er arrangiert seine Blüten dabei mit der Nüchternheit eines Naturforschers, ohne kalligrafische oder ornamentale Zitate. Ihm gelingt es, so eine Verbindung zwischen einer internationalen zeitgenössischen Bildsprache einerseits und der eigenen, türkisch-osmanischen Bild- und Kunsttradition andererseits herzustellen. Die Verbindung dieser "Spurensicherungen" zu Kalligrafie oder Ornament stellt sich danach eher im Auge des Betrachters ein.
1958
born in Isparta, Turkey
1975-79
studies at the State College of Applied Fine Arts, Painting Department, in Istanbul, Turkey
1980
International Summeracademy for Art, Salzburg (scolarship from the Austrian Government)
1981
lecturer at the State College of Applied Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
1985
International Summeracademy for Art, Salzburg
1986
PhD at the Marmara University/ Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
1986-89
DAAD-Scolarship of the University of Arts, Berlin
1990
Junior Professor, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
1991
1997
Professor and Head of the Department of Fine Arts of the Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
