HİLMİ CAN ÖZDEMİR
2DHilmi Can Özdemir (Eskişehir, 1995) received his education first at Eskişehir Atatürk Fine Arts High School and then at Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. He participated in various group exhibitions and workshops throughout his university education, which he completed in 2018. While he continues his education at Anadolu University, Fine Arts Institute, Department of Painting, which he started in 2019, he also continues his productions in his workshop in Eskişehir.
While creating his works, the artist starts from anonymous photographs, postcards, historical images, family and city archives constitute their accumulation. He challenges the distinction between reality and distorted reality by interpreting found photographs in the privacy of his own imagination. He tries to break down the boundaries between photography and painting. Özdemir actually carefully selects his compositions, which create the effect of being created with ordinary finds, and reconstructs the frame with the concepts he focuses on. He creates his paintings with a new integrity of meaning in his works, in a way that is technically and conceptually free from pure facts. In his works, he conveys cultural and social messages that cannot be analysed at first glance, in a symbolic language, with reference to the fact that the individual constitutes different realities. In line with this process, each viewer interprets Özdemir's works according to their own life experiences, social backgrounds and cultural codes.
2018, Tile Art Initiative group exhibition, Galeri Soyut, Ankara, Turkey
2016, International Eskişehir Terracotta Symposium, Production Line group exhibition, Eskişehir, Turkey
2015, Small Works, group exhibition, Galeri Soyut, Ankara, Turkey
Hilmi Can Özdemir (Eskişehir, 1995) received his education first at Eskişehir Atatürk Fine Arts High School and then at Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. He participated in various group exhibitions and workshops throughout his university education, which he completed in 2018. While he continues his education at Anadolu University, Fine Arts Institute, Department of Painting, which he started in 2019, he also continues his productions in his workshop in Eskişehir.
While creating his works, the artist starts from anonymous photographs, postcards, historical images, family and city archives constitute their accumulation. He challenges the distinction between reality and distorted reality by interpreting found photographs in the privacy of his own imagination. He tries to break down the boundaries between photography and painting. Özdemir actually carefully selects his compositions, which create the effect of being created with ordinary finds, and reconstructs the frame with the concepts he focuses on. He creates his paintings with a new integrity of meaning in his works, in a way that is technically and conceptually free from pure facts. In his works, he conveys cultural and social messages that cannot be analysed at first glance, in a symbolic language, with reference to the fact that the individual constitutes different realities. In line with this process, each viewer interprets Özdemir's works according to their own life experiences, social backgrounds and cultural codes.
2018, Tile Art Initiative group exhibition, Galeri Soyut, Ankara, Turkey
2016, International Eskişehir Terracotta Symposium, Production Line group exhibition, Eskişehir, Turkey
2015, Small Works, group exhibition, Galeri Soyut, Ankara, Turkey
