Who is Şaban Tuncer? (1953 – Niğde)
Born in Niğde in 1953. Completed his primary, secondary and high school (teachers’ school) education here. With the encouragement and recognition of his talent by his art teacher, he won the talent exams of Ankara Gazi Education Institute. He completed his associate degree here and graduated in 1973-1974 and was assigned to Malatya Hasan Varol Middle School. He was called up for military service that year and completed his 18-month military service as a reserve officer in Istanbul. After completing this duty, he was assigned to Niğde Cumhuriyet Middle School as an art teacher. In 1981, he transferred to Niğde Education Institute as an art and writing teacher. Later, he became a lecturer at the Education College affiliated to Selçuk University and then at the Education Faculty Classroom Teaching Department. Again, he worked as a lecturer at Niğde University Education Faculty Classroom Teaching and Fine Arts Painting Teaching Departments. During these periods, he completed his undergraduate studies at 9 Eylül University Buca Education Faculty Painting Department and continued at Niğde University. He completed his Master’s Degree in the Department of Art History at the Institute of Social Sciences on “Osman Hamdi Bey’s Art and the Search for National Identity”.
He retired in 2003 and focused on his paintings in his own studio. He continued to train students in the studio he founded after coming to Istanbul from Niğde in 2007. He never dried his brush by accelerating his paintings.
He has opened 26 personal exhibitions to date. He has also taken part in many mixed exhibitions with his works. He has also held workshops both in Turkey and abroad. He opened a personal exhibition in Melle, Germany. He exhibited his works by participating in workshops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Poland and Cyprus.
The artist, who is a member of UPSD and BRHD and the father of 2 children, resides in Istanbul and Bozcaada.
His understanding of art is generally semi-abstract expressionism. He tries to find the essence of reality by filtering it through his own filter. Although he paints nature and people in his own style, he usually reflects his struggle, pain and joy in his works by leaving traces of spiritual movements on these subjects and elevating them above his taste. He does this with improvisations and sometimes with the variability of conscious reflection. He attaches importance to the meeting of the essence and the whole with the concern of transforming colors and lines from chaos into a balanced composition and the formation of aesthetic values. The adventure of interpreting the beauties or ugliness of life drags him to do what is symbolic and intellectual in it, not what is easy. Falling into the ease and repetitiveness of habits makes him feel exhausted. Therefore, he tries to enter the adventure with the effects of everything he likes and wishes and interpret it. Instead of painting a certain movement or the same things over and over, he strives to continue his searches on his own path. He says that this is his richness. Technically, he creates compositions by attributing meaning to spontaneously formed aesthetic forms while searching for new forms with rhythmic keys, prints, erasures and scrapings, such as color, texture and line elements that enable the essence and form to meet. He fights with himself to find new adventures by saying that a painting is either finished or will be finished. Other than painting, his hobbies and interests include working on poetry and music, reading books, being interested in scientific, social, psychological and historical subjects, sports and traveling.
The artist, who sees painting as cooking in his own oven, drinking from his own well and going on his own path, says, “Long live art”, believing that works made with the belief that only you search, only you find and be there will turn into art.
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