Ömer Uluç, 1931-2010

After graduating from Robert College in 1953, Ömer Uluç went to the United States between 1953-1957 to study engineering and then art. He was a member of Tavanarası Ressamları (The Attic Painters) group founded by Nuri İyem in 1953. Enriched by the great variety of geographies he lived in, Uluç created an album of living beings comprising djinns, monsters, supernatural creatures, and humans. He continually strived to keep modern art’s spirit of exploration and discovery alive. Creating bodies and creatures with helices, serpentine coils and spirals accentuated by rhythmic brushstrokes, the artist problematized the relation between the image and its meaning right from the beginning of his career. His bundle-like, genderless characters acquired a more female, mother- and-child appearance in his later works.