Artist/Professor Gulten Imamoglu
The artist brings together her intuitions and utopias with a spectators’ reality and associates them with the meanings of colourful and dynamic paintings. Images of the artist, which make life and death related, moreover connected, which are seen at the same platform on life and death planes equal and identical.
The artist manages to bring together dynamism of beauty with stability of death, infinity of thought with concreteness of art and the mercilessness of reality with livability of dreams. Colours are not seen as real colours in her paintings, but as a vortex reminding us of a natural disaster. Opening our eyes to far horizons, they actually deal with meaningful and unexpected blows to our inner world. Its caressing is like a heavy slap on the face, its fluidity is like an escape sometimes borrowed but intractable. To tell the truth, the painter is skilled enough to escape from us and to take shelter in her colourful universe. She likes colour countercurrents and she does not hesitate to shoot us with that gun. Defining Gülten İmamoğlu as an artist who attacks us with colours and defends herself with colours would not be wrong, as she uses her colours as an instrument for a hurtful sense, wonderful excitement, an idolized death and a livable paradise.
The paintings exalt an abstract language where figures are mixed by dancing, in a sense. The artist paints color motions with a figure of fastidiousness and carries us to a perception, which is familiar to us. She concretizes the indefiniteness of figures with meaningful integrity of colours. Thus, she makes a personal, original and clear contribution to a figurative translation which we took from classism. While the paintings act as examples of the contemporariness which she had internalized, they do not estrange to the traditional art forms. Hence, on one hand they are academic, on the other hand, they wink to prodigality of a spendthrift bohemian. While they are displaying the reflections of an adventureous soul, they do not relinquish from a domestic sacred. Yes, the paintings are confidential but at the same time they make provocative eroticism as an dominant power.
The universe with its many complex systems contain multiple strata changing from micro to macrocosmos in a dynamic state. There is a constant regenerating motion, stratification and transformation in the universe.
The main characteristic of forms, which gives a taste of painting/sculpture, which cause misperception at first sight constitute multiple stratifications. With metastrata there are messages for the religions, for human memory/psychology, for existence, for the endless cyclus in the universe, for past and future, and especially for the time. Multiple stratifications are present in the artist’s abstractions, as in instant and memory. Every paintings have special nuclei. An overlapping of affective situation of the artist and her forms in the paintings is present. Color is the biggest gun of the artist by which while she rules paint’s own fact perfectly, she also gives a message to uncontrollable features of the time, which are speed and motion.




Gulten Imamoglu was born in Turkiye in 1970.At presents she is working as a professor of Fine Arts at the 19 May University in Samsun.In September 2009 her work of art entitled "Exile into Loneliness" was awarded first place in the painting category of the London International Creative Competition.She is member of lnternational Association of Art.She made a lots of exhibition at New York, Londra, Las Vegas, Los Angales, San Francisco, Florida, Chicago, Bulgaristan and Pakistan.She adopts the universal phenomenons like birth, death, life and motion with the countercurrents of paintings abstract expression and makes death usual, life dynamic and movements clear. In a sense, she prefers to imprison us into her paintings which makes us meet our inner selves.While the paintings act as examples of the contemporariness which she had internalized, they do not estrange to the traditional art forms. Hence, on one hand they are academic, on the other hand, they wink to prodigality of a spendthrift bohemian. While they are displaying the reflections of an adventurer soul, they do not relinquish from a domestic sacredness. They are confidential but they make an incited sexuality dominant power. They gird us with integrating an infertile motion with a prolific image.She manages to bring together dynamism of beauty with stability of death, infinity of thought with concreteness of art and mercilessness of reality with livability of dreams. Colors are not seen as colors in her paintings, but as a vortex reminding of a natural disaster. Opening our eyes to far horizons, they actually deal with meaningful and unexpected blows to our inner world. Its caressing is like a heavy slap on the face, its fluidity is like an escape sometimes borrowed but intractable. To tell the truth, painter seems to be skilled enough to escape from us and to take shelter in her colorful universe. She likes color countercurrents and she does not hesitate to shoot us with that gun. Defining Glten mamolu as an artist who attacks to colors and defends herself with colors will not be wrong, as she makes her colors a hurtful poison, an indispensable exuberant, an idolized death and a livable paradise...

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2012 ABRA GALLERY,LOS ANGELES,USA
2010 ‘SOLARİS’ Modernist, İSTANBUL
2010 ‘AURORA’Samsun Ticaret Merkezi, SAMSUN
2009 ‘PASSION’HayHill Gallery,Cork Street,London,İNGİLTERE
2009 Abra Gallery, Los Angales, AMERİKA
2009 ‘SÜRGÜN’Garage of Art, İSTANBUL
2008. ArtExpo Art Fair, Jacop Javits Center,NewYork, AMERİKA
2007. ‘ARINMA’ Art&Life Sanat Galerisi, İSTANBUL
2007. ArtExpo Art Fair, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, LasVegas, AMERİKA
2007. ‘Anadolu Tanrıçaları’ ArtExpo Art Fair, New York, AMERİKA
2006.’SudaGiz’ ArtForum Sanat Fuarı, Art&Life Sanat Galerisi, ANKARA
2006.’Anatolian Colours’54. Sausalito Art Festival, SanFrancisco, AMERİKA
2006. ‘Bir Kırmızı Bin Düş’ Altanay Sanat Galerisi, ANKARA
2005. 53.International Sausalito Art Festival, San Francisco, AMERİKA
2005. ‘Metafizik Fantezi’ Galeri Artist, İSTANBUL
2004. ANKART Sanat Fuarı (ÇAĞSAV), Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi, ANKARA
2003. ‘Metaformik Duyumlar’ Galeri Artist, İSTANBUL
2002. Hazeranlar Konağı DGS Galerisi, AMASYA
1993. Akbank Sanat Galerisi, SAMSUN.
1991. Latifoğlu Konağı, TOKAT
1991. D.G.S. Galerisi, SAMSUN
INTERNATIONAL /BİANELS/ART FAIRS
2011 CONTAMPORARY ISTANBUL,GALERI BARAZ,ISTANBUL
2010 "Internatıonal Contemporary Masters"South Nevada Fine Art Museum,LasVegas, AMERİKA
2009 Contemporary İstanbul, Galeri Binyıl, Lütfi Kırdar Kongre Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul
2009 ArtHamptons 2009, Abra Gallery,SouthHampton, NewYork, ,AMERİKA
2009 ArtExpo,Jacop Javits Center,NewYork, ,AMERİKA
2008 Contemporary İstanbul, Galeri Binyıl, Lütfi Kırdar Kongre Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul
2008 Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, ,AMERİKA
2008 International Conference on Art and Art Exhibition,Pakistan
2008 Florida Art Fair, AMERİKA

2007 Contemporary İstanbul, Galeri Binyıl,Lütfi Kırdar Kongre Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul

2007 NeoCon Chicago 2007, Chicago,AMERİKA

2007 Art Bosphorus 2007, Çağdaş Sanat Fuarı, İstanbul

2005 ART-iST, Lütfi Kırdar Kongre Kült. Mrk., İstanbul

2003 12. Uluslararası Baskı Bienali, Varna, BULGARİSTAN

2003 Artist 2003, 13. İstanbul Sanat Fuarı,Galeri Artist, İstanbul

2005 Uluslararası Görsel Sanatlar Buluşm. Buca Eğt. Fakültesi, İzmir
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