Artist Information:
Orhan Coplu
Vancouver,
Canada
Member Since: Sep 2008
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Artist Statement:
THE WORLD OF DREAM AND LOVE
My work is a mirror, reflects
the feelings, beliefs,
thoughts, fears and
experiences.
I use symbols to express my
thoughts and convey my themes.
In my paintings cloud
symbolizes dreams; heart,
symbolizes Love, boat
symbolizes adventure and
journey. The figures in my
paintings are mainly the human
beings and relations between
themselves and the environment
they are part of. These human
figures are mostly on the edge
of contrast feelings such as
hope and despair, joy and
pain, love and hate.
My paintings are full of hope
and emotions that the human
beings hold within their soul
and mind but shed away with
the society’s strict rules.
“When there is a feeling
painted as in the “Love”
series, I try to express the
different patterns of
behaviors and characters of
human beings, by observing
every aspects and formation of
this emotion and human's
interaction with it. I believe
there is love in all living
creatures’ behavior and it is
a beautiful feeling when
approached and expressed
appropriately. I try to
provoke viewer's thoughts with
contradictions of this feeling
because most human acts
partake of both.
Whereas in the Dream series, I
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions (Solo
Shows)
2008 Ode to Art Gallery-
Singapore & Kuala Lumpur
2007 State of the Art Gallery
– Hong Kong
2006 MJC des 4 Bordes
Metz-France
2003 Eurocentre-La Rochelle-
France
2002 Room George Chepfer
Nancy- France
2001 Int.Contemporary Art Fair
Malaga- Spain
2000 Galleri Hittite Toronto-
Canada
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Artist Galleries:
Gallery 444 San Francisco
–America
Images Art Gallery- Hawaii-
America
Fingerhut Galleries, San
Francisco- America
Edward Mongomery Gallery-
Carmel – America
The Link Gallery- Colorado-
America
Lando Gallery- Edmonton-
Canada
Jacob Gallery- Toronto –
Canada
Nexus Gallery – Melbourn
–Australia
State Of The Art Gallery- Hong
Kong
Ode To Art- Singapore & Kuala
Lumpur
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Artist Reviews:
Dreaming of a Land of Cockayne
- the paintings of Coplu
The Land of Cockayne
We all have dreams and some of
us dream even when we are
awake, some of us are daydream
believers and inhabit another
world in our mind, like that
world that was described in
the Middle ...
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Orhan Coplu's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Orhan Coplu's Portfolio.
THE WORLD OF DREAM AND LOVE
My work is a mirror, reflects the feelings, beliefs, thoughts, fears and experiences.
I use symbols to express my thoughts and convey my themes. In my paintings cloud symbolizes dreams; heart, symbolizes Love, boat symbolizes adventure and journey. The figures in my paintings are mainly the human beings and relations between themselves and the environment they are part of. These human figures are mostly on the edge of contrast feelings such as hope and despair, joy and pain, love and hate.
My paintings are full of hope and emotions that the human beings hold within their soul and mind but shed away with the society’s strict rules. “When there is a feeling painted as in the “Love” series, I try to express the different patterns of behaviors and characters of human beings, by observing every aspects and formation of this emotion and human's interaction with it. I believe there is love in all living creatures’ behavior and it is a beautiful feeling when approached and expressed appropriately. I try to provoke viewer's thoughts with contradictions of this feeling because most human acts partake of both.
Whereas in the Dream series, I ... |
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