Artist Biography

Aytuğ Aykut (Eskişehir, 1986) completed his undergraduate studies at Anadolu University's Painting Department and earned his doctorate at the Department of Art and Design at Eskişehir Osmangazi University. The artist has had the opportunity to present his works through biennials, solo, and group exhibitions, and he continues to work in the fields of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics.

Aykut focuses on the relationship between humans and nature and its ecological implications by using sustainable materials. In doing so, he searches for traces and roots of images within the collective memory.

In his art, he strives to create a balance that saves the spontaneous from chaos and the technical from lifelessness. When choosing his subjects, his aim is to avoid being confined to the mundane while remaining aware of the questions and issues of the times. His desire to reach authenticity and the simplicity of the authentic with minimal movement, along with the experiences he encounters in this process, fuel his drive to create.

Works

Hatıramdaki Canavarların Eskizi, 2022

Untitled, 2022

Alem II, 2022

Exhibitions

some mean wolves: commonalities

"some mean wolves; commonalities" by nourishing collectives, companionships, differences, distinctions, it goes on to explore a life where humans and wolves encounter, become common, work together and share with each other. Without being restricted to figurative planes where man is a wolf to man, questions and pursuits about what is a wolf to a man, the wolf's existence on its own when we oust it from its place in the humanitarian center and wolf's adjacency cross over this series. Wolf; starting from a point in which nature, memory, tradition and representations in the society takes shape in flesh and bone as a creature that goes beyond these representations. Countless wolf figures created by myths of deep traces in the collective memory, images that roam among us for centuries and root of our existence, multiply, diversify and increase in this series."some evil wolves, companions" presents us with a rich ground to experience and view a world where human and wolf accompany each other, compete with each other, weave the tangled nets of their destinies together.