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Muammer Öner;
H. Avni Öztopcu's 'Road of Place',
Sanat Cevresi. Issue no.121 November 1988 Istanbul

 

H. Avni Öztopcu's "Road of Place"  In his early works (1985), he used black which he defined as "darkness" and white which he defined as "light" as his basic tools.

   1985 Büyük Oylum

We see that he tried to reinforce the geometric speculative integrity of the stratified contrasts created by lighted crystal brightness of the mechanical objects which he places inside the dark spaces with their grayish-white gradations, together with diagonal planes including amorphous motives with elements of connections, motion, repetition and texture. In his later works (1986), 

   1986 Meşale

while contrast created by motion in the earlier stages where being replaced by perpendicular and horizantal forms in conrast, rythmic elements making the geometric planes of mechanical objects took the place of contrast forms (Amorphous-Crystal). Grades of grayish-white transformed into grades of colour. The rythmic elements of repetition prevail their mechical structure while in search of their appropriate place and function. It is not difficult to see that the reason for this change in H. Avni Oztopcu's paintings is connected with his orientation towards 

   1986 Yapraklar

"colour" and "motives" which gained significance in his works. In fact in his later works (1987) these two elements constitute the fundamental structure upon which he builts his drawings. The function of the black and white contrast in his early works are now transformed into the function of colour contrasts. His passion for black and white contrast has been transformed into grayish spaces and passages which he used in his drawings. 

   1987 Tütün Çiçeği

While mechanical decorations take the form of organic textures, "Planimetric" structure has been adopted with respect to space as a result of this approach.

 

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