Kemal Seyhan: Proportional Line: Last Decade

Description

Kemal Seyhan is a painter in love with looking structures. He searches for the brief encounter, that fleeting moment when a small detail of everyday life, a lonely line, a graffiti, a lavish colour on the road open his life to him, consequently, to his abstract paintings. His vocabulary consists largely of proportional lines, gouged surfaces, linear marks, hidden symbols, signs, calligraphic tracery, and emotional colours. What he has lined on, scratched out, or incised into surface of his work, ranges from legible transcription to illegible inscription. In Kemal Seyhan Proportional Line and Structure , three international authors (Alistair Hicks, London; Edelbert Koeb, Wien, Necmi Soenmez, Dusseldorf) examine artist's lives, evaluation of his work, his belief in the transformative power of pure lines and enigmatic structures. Kemal Seyhan was born in Kayseri, Turkey, in 1960 and became Austrian state resident in 1996. Seyhan has been living and working both in Istanbul and Vienna since 2004.

Alistair Hicks is Senior Curator at Deutsche Bank, where he advises on how to add to the company's worldwide collection of 60,000 works of art. He is also a reviewer of art for The Times and Financial Times newspapers and for the Spectator and Vogue magazines, among others. Hicks is the author of New British Art in the Saatchi Collection (1989), The School of London: The Resurgence of Contemporary Painting (1989) and Art Works: British and German Contemporary Art, 1960-2000 (2001).