Aşkın
Akman

Born in 1964, Akman works and lives in Istanbul. After his graduation from the Mechanical Engineering department at METU, he was trained in the studio of Azerbaijani State Artist, honorary member of Russian Art Academy Associate Prof. Teymur Rzayev and started his painting education at the Fine Arts Faculty of Yeditepe University in 2013. Currently, he continues to work on his master’s thesis on “figurative expressionism and portrait abstractions” with Prof. Ergin İNAN at the same university. Awards:Nuri İyem Painting Competition 2015 / İstanbul-Turkey Exhibition AwardArte Laguna Prize 11th Edition 2016-2017 / Venice-Italy Shortlisted ArtistBiafarin 2017 / Montreal-Canada Honour AwardExhibitions: Solo Exhibition "Untamable" 2018-May/İstanbul Gallery GaleriMİZSolo Exhibition will be held on 2020-Feb/İstanbul Gallery GaleriMİZ

As Yalçın SADAK refers in his catalogue text; “Each work by the artist is the emergence of the ‘desire to paint’. The figure never separates from that desire, and in order to provide the connection between art and life, it makes a breakthrough operation in every attempt. One feels the trace of this struggle and its untamable energy on the artist’s canvas, and we are shown that although today’s canvas is full of ‘ways of seeing’ there are still things to do with hope in the name of art.”