It can be seen in every single picture of Zülfikar how much in the practiced experience the memory of the culture, in which you grew up, current today’s influences are crisscrossing together.
Basically Zülfikar’s art tells about people, their relationship to nature, their (abandoned) home, their existence in the tension between love and violence. Its very sensual, brilliant color pictures, which always lives a gently melancholy, are without any folkloric trace. Rather they tell us something about life in the modern era. They draw attention to existential questions.
Where do we come from? What we hope for? What we are guided in our daily lives?
And which role art, culture and tradition play in our lives? The Turkish artist living in Germany choose a gallery for his paintings following his love for the written word as a way of knowledge and acquisition of realization.
Zülfikar is not only an passionate reader, but also regularly worked for years as an art and culture journalist of Kurdish and Turkish newspapers. Words and pictures can also lead to the people themselves and complete both forms of expression.
