Burhan Doğançay

Burhan Cahit Doğançay ( born September 11, 1929 in Istanbul, † January 16, 2013 ) was a living in New York City and Istanbul Turkish- American painter and photographer.

Biography

In artistic matters Doğançay was trained early on by his father, the Turkish painter Adil Doğançay, as well as the painter Arif Kaptan. After completing his studies in law at the University of Ankara in the beginning of the 50s he went to Paris to do his doctorate at the University of Paris in Economics and incidentally to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere art. After a brief career in the diplomatic service, which brought him to New York in 1962, decided in 1964 Dogançay settle permanently in New York and turn to fully embrace the art. In his later years he lived partly in Turkish Turgutreis.

Art

Has always been fascinated by urban walls and walls, Doğançay made ​​this the subject of his art. In his eyes, they are barometers of our society and witness to the transience of time, steadfast against the onslaught of the elements and the traces of the people. The mid-1970s Doğançay began to photograph urban walls and walls, a project that he was still having regarded as secondary. This project won but rapidly in importance. After nearly four decades of his collection includes photographs from more than one hundred countries. 1982 organized the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris under the title Les Mures Murment, Crient Ils, Ils chantent ... ( " The walls whisper, they scream, they sing ...") a solo exhibition of his photographs. Doğançays recordings are an archive of our time and the basis for his paintings that document also our time.

His preferred medium was the collage. The main components of this are the posters and objects / fragments, which he collected from and by the walls and partly by means of the " Fumage " ( blackening by the Rußspur a candle ) edited. Doğançay formed by walls, he worked in series, each of which relates to doors, colors, graffiti styles, or the objects which he integrated into his works. In the 1970s and 1980s arose from his interpretation of the city walls, the series Ribbons ("bands "), which became his trademark, the individual works are made in contrast to the collage poster pieces from clean acrylic strips and their calligraphic shaped shadow throws. Basis were three-dimensional maquettes, which also provided the impetus to shadow sculptures made ​​of Alucobond, aluminum and Aubusson tapestries later.

His work, which is documented in numerous books border, consists of paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, drawings and Aubusson tapestries. The influences of his travels in more than 100 countries often flowed into his works. Walls have a special meaning for the artist - the conversion of walls in art was his passion. Dogançay received many awards for his work, including an award for his life's work, awarded by the Turkish president.

Doğançay Museum

Opened in 2004 Doğançay the first contemporary museum of Turkey, the Doğançay Museum in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district. The museum displays about 100 of Doğançays works from his most important creative periods. In addition, his works are represented worldwide in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Exhibitions

• 2012: Fifty Years of Urban Walls -Kent duvarlarının yarim yüzyılı, retrospective. Istanbul Modern Temporary Exhibition Hall. Curator: Levent Çalıkoğlu.