Reyhan Abacıoğlu

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• Reyhan Abacıoğlu

  Who is Reyhan Abacıoğlu? (1954-İzmir) She was born in İzmir in 1953, completed her primary education at Dikili Atatürk Primary School and her secondary education at İzmir Girls High School. She graduated from İzmir Education Institute Painting Department Şeref Bigalı workshop in 1972. She was assigned to Manisa Salihli High School in the same year. She was assigned to İzmir Eşref Paşa High School in 1975 and worked at the same school until her retirement in 1993. Immediately after, she started working as a manager at the newly opened Başak Sigorta Art Gallery in İzmir. After the gallery closed in 2006, she started working at Konak Municipality Güzelyalı Culture Center. She left her job there in 2016 and continues to work in her studio in İzmir. The artist has 43 personal exhibitions to date. Her works are in national and international private collections. Art Perspective; That first moment when I stand in front of the blank canvas is like starting a journey full of unknowns… At the beginning, I have no preconceptions about the painting that will be created. I start painting with wide brushes, by applying stains. The subject or figures are hidden in these stains. These beings, which are in the form of a hidden power in the process of painting, push the structure in order to transform into action. Those who insist on existing, who are determined to exist, inevitably create themselves. Sometimes this process is very painful, exhausting, and full of conflict. Sometimes, it is completed in a kind of trance. And the urge to create is never satisfied. One always feels the need to start over. That is why painting is a painful, destructive, but indispensable endeavor for me.

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