Curated by Prof. Dr. The exhibition, made by İsmet Çavuşoğlu, which includes relief paintings and original prints alongside canvas painting, will be open to art lovers for two weeks. Academician and artist Cançat explained his thoughts about his exhibition "Experimental Variations II", which can be read retrospectively, and the process of the exhibition's emergence with these words:
"The title of this exhibition has emerged as a result of my first period works, my last period works, my works in different techniques and various experimental searches.
FIRST PERIOD PICTURES
I like to try different techniques in painting. In this sense, I can say that I do not adhere to any trend or style. My early works are more fictional, more planned, more symbolic and more conceptual. For example, I made the ”Umbrella and Birds” series. They are in oil on canvas technique… Umbrellas and birds are completely symbolic here. Reflections of people's moods or moods towards relationships emerged in these ways. They are as thought provoking as they look amusing… They say that black is not used in pictures, but I have never agreed with that.
LAST PERIOD PICTURES
I started trying different things. I stopped being fictional and started making more spontaneous, more chance-based and more textured, embossed, tactile paintings. These relief type pictures gave me great pleasure. The reason for my transition to this; For me, sculpture and relief arts always have a special place besides painting. I love sculpture and relief arts. I also worked in sculpture for a while. I thought about how I could combine this with oil paint on canvas and these things came out. My inclination towards this style stems from this feeling… When I make reliefs on canvas, I feel like I am also sculpting. This is my recent work. It looks like it will be like this for a while. But I don't know if these reliefs will come out of the canvas surface and turn into an installation later on... Time will tell...
The volumetric difference between the first and last period paintings; While in my early works, oil painting created a three-dimensionality, an illusory space effect within the painting's own setup; now, far from this fiction, it is the creation of tactile spaces with relief effect in a three-dimensionality approaching the viewer, with the spontaneous placement of the material itself on the canvas. This spontaneous creation became more exciting for me. I started to get to the canvas without editing.”
Curator of the exhibition Prof. Dr. İsmet Çavuşoğlu expresses the following in the text of the exhibition:
“…If I had to make an assessment of Cançat's paintings, I would say that he is full of energy and on the rise. This selection mainly includes oil painting works as well as original print and collage works. It is very valuable that the conceptual works he has done in previous years and the works that use pigeons as symbols are included in this exhibition. It draws attention with its fine sensitivity and a different composition, color and aesthetic understanding, especially in abstract and abstraction works.
Assoc. Dr. About Aysun Cançat;
Publications
Articles published in international peer-reviewed journals
2013 “Art Management and Art Manager”, Ulakbilge International Journal of Social Sciences, issue:1, volume:1, pp.36-43
2014 “A Study of Artwork: A Self-Portrait of Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn”, International Refereed Journal of Design and Architecture, issue:2, pp.1-9
2015 “Contemporary Chinese Art Environment; “Cynical Realism”, Gazi University Faculty of Fine Arts Journal of Art and Design, issue:16, pp.65-75
2016 “Surface Techniques and Meaning Problematics in Visual Art Education”, Art Education Journal (SED), issue:1, volume:4, pp.19-36
2016 “Jean Fautrier and Impasto Painting Technique”, İdil Art and Language Journal, issue:22, volume:5, pp.677-690
2016 “Institutional Disciplines of 2010 European Capital of Culture Istanbul Culture and Art Projects; Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Kültür A.Ş. Example”, Art Art Journal, issue:6, p.229-241
2018 “Pop After Pop; Neo Pop, Art Magazine, issue:9, pp.323-335
2018 “On New Media Art…”, Journal of Atatürk University Fine Arts Institute, issue: 40, pp.165-178
2018 “A Contemporary Evaluation of Cave Period Paintings and Encaustic Painting Technique”, 3rd International Congress of Contemporary Approaches in Communication, Literature, Music and Art Studies, pp.220-227
2019 “Texture in Painting”, 1st International Science, Culture and Art Congress Book, pp.127-146
2019 “The Past and Present of Simultaneous Description”, Art Journal: Atatürk University Faculty of Fine Arts, no:34, pp.183-190
2019 “The Surface in Painting from Beginning to Modern”, 5th International Congress of Social Humanities and Educational Sciences, pp.406-421
2020 “On Lowbrow”, Journal of Atatürk University Fine Arts Institute, issue: 44, pp.202-210
2020 “The Surface in Painting from Impressionism to Cubism”, 6th International Congress of Social Humanities and Educational Sciences, pp.72-85
2020 “A Glance at Culture and Art in Post-1980 Istanbul”, 7th International Social Humanities and Educational Sciences Congress Book, pp.154-161
2021 “On Contemporary Art Sales…”, Art&Design International Art and Design Research and Exhibition Congress Book, pp.917-923
2021 “Superstroke and Superblur Art”, Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, issue:44, pp.41-48
2021 "Interactive Dimension in Net Art", Art and Art Information Magazine, https://sanatvebilgi.org/
2022 “Fluxus Readings”, ART/İcle: Art and Design Journal, issue:3, volume: 2
Other publications
2010 “The Stage is Istanbul”, Sayed Criticism Journal, issue:2, pp.29-30
2011 “and Sayed Is Closed…” Bosphorus Art Newspaper, issue:44, p.6
2013 “Aktolun C., Goldsmith S.J. “Nuclear Medicine Therapy”, Springer Science+Business Media New York, p.428 (An image of the book)
National/International Group Exhibitions:
2006 Graduation Exhibition, Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty Moda Marine Club, Istanbul
2009 Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Art and Vocational Courses, Yarımburgaz Caves and Group Exhibition, Halkalı Cultural Center, Istanbul
2009 Atatürk Portraits” Exhibition, Art-Point Art Gallery, Istanbul
2010 Istanbul Kultur University Faculty Members Exhibition, Istanbul Kultur University, Incirli Campus Art Gallery, Istanbul
2010 Istanbul Kultur University Faculty Members Exhibition, Aksehir Cultural Center, Konya
2011 Nik Art Gallery Exhibition, Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Istanbul
2012 3rd National Fine Arts Education Symposium Graduate Students Exhibition, Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty, Istanbul
2012 Painting Education Department Graduate Students Exhibition, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty and Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty, Malik Aksel Art Gallery, Ankara
2012 Mixed Graduate Student Exhibition, Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty “Original Print Exhibition”, Istanbul
2012 Başkent University, Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty Painting Education Department Graduate Students Painting Exhibition, Başkent University Fine Arts, Design and Architecture Faculty Exhibition Hall, Ankara
2012 71st State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara
2014 Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty Members Exhibition, 100th Year Cultural Center, Çankırı
2015 Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty Members Exhibition, 100th Year Cultural Center, Çankırı
2016 8 March International Women's Day International Mixed Exhibition, Atatürk Cultural Center, Çankırı
2016 1st International Mail Art Biennial Exhibition, Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Exhibition Hall, Tekirdag
2016 Sayred (Seven Colors of Art) I. Group Exhibition, Devecihan Cultural Center, Edirne
2016 “Diachronic I” Group Exhibition, Pinelo Gallery, Istanbul
2016 “Diachronic II” Group Exhibition, Pinelo Gallery, Istanbul
2016 UGS (International Art Symposium and Exhibition from Past to Future), Hitit University Exhibition Hall, Çorum
2016 Osten Design Biennial, Osten Collection, Macedonia
2016 “Inter-Art” Intercontinental Small Graphic Biennale, Aiud, Romania
2016 “S.O.S. Terra” International Postal Art Exhibition, Aiud, Romania
2017 "In Memory of Atatürk's Entrance to Edirne", Group Exhibition, Devecihan Cultural Center, Edirne
2017 Sayred (Seven Colors of Art Association) “Great Suffering Is Dumb For Our Martyrs and Veterans”, Devecihan Cultural Center, Edirne
2017 I. International Postal Art Competition Exhibition, Trakya University Faculty of Fine Arts, Edirne
2017 1st International Art Education Symposium Exhibition, Pamukkale University, Denizli
2018 “8 March International Women's Day International Mixed Exhibition, Giresun University Güre Campus, Giresun
2018 II. International Postal Art Competition Exhibition, Trakya University Faculty of Fine Arts, Edirne
2018 Sayred (Seven Colors of Art Association), “Women and Warrior Women” Group Exhibition, Devecihan Cultural Center, Edirne
2018 UPSD (International Plastic Arts Association) “World Art Day AkademixII” Group Exhibition, UPSD Art Gallery, Istanbul
2018 6th International Printing Technologies Symposium Group Exhibition, “Timeless”, Istanbul University Beyazit Campus, Istanbul
2018 “Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Arrival in Edirne” Mixed Exhibition, Edirne Osman İnci Museum, Edirne
2019 International Postal Art Exhibition, “Dystopia”, Kafkas University, Kars
2019 “My Name is Woman” Group Exhibition, Devecihan Cultural Center, Edirne
2019 2nd International Mail Art Biennial Exhibition, Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Exhibition Hall, Tekirdag
2019 19 May International II. Sayred Exhibition, Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, "Art with Youth" Mixed Exhibition, Devecihan Cultural Center, Edirne
2019 “That's My Milieu” International Mail Art Biennial Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019 “Free Mail Art”, International Mail Art Biennial Exhibition, Cosenza, Italy
2019 “Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Arrival in Edirne” Mixed Exhibition, Trakya University, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Education Foyer Hall, Edirne
2020 “Academy of Art” Teaching Staff Exhibition, Istanbul Gelişim University Art Gallery, Istanbul
