Mehmet Altuntaş

Who is Mehmet Altuntaş? (1976 – Diyarbakır)

He was born in 1976 in the Çermik district of Diyarbakır. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education here and won the Gazi University Fine Arts Education Faculty Art Teaching Department in 1996. He received sculpture training from Dr. Lecturer and sculptor Necmettin YAĞCI between 1997-2000. During this time, he made many group and individual sculpture works. Some of these are the relief works of the INOKSAN Company, the Burdur Veterinary Faculty Campus Bull sculptures, and the civilian and soldier sculptures from the War of Independence in the Kayseri General Staff Garden.
He graduated in 2000 and was appointed as an art teacher in Diyarbakır. In 2013, he opened the İmge Art Workshop in Diyarbakır. He both prepared students for the art departments of universities and gave art training as a hobby. During this period, he participated in numerous exhibitions and artistic events in the country. While continuing his studies as an art teacher at Diyarbakır Kayapınar Public Education Center, he is also continuing his master’s degree at Dicle University Ziya Gökalp Faculty of Education, Department of Art Teaching.

He has done hyperrealistic works for many years. He was greatly influenced by the basalt stone texture used in the structures in the region where he lived and he tried to combine the difficult struggle of life with this stone texture. In this way, he has taken the difficult formations and changes in nature and human life as subjects in his works, and he continues to produce works that combine classical and contemporary art by bringing together the formation of basalt stone, which is formed as a result of a difficult geological process, and the difficulties in human life.