Rest in Peace

Onur Gülfidan's drawings and paintings do not depict the everyday life, as we know it. His characters and the spatio-temporal framework he creates are fictions in relentless contradiction with reality. In his elaborately assembled compositions he examines human nature, the current social and political conditions and our connection with popular culture in an ironic manner. His technique is a combination of influences such as cinema, comics, animation and digital games that have shaped his visual perception since the 80's and a classical art education. Although the moments that the artist interprets seem innocent and childish, there is always a subtle critique of the morally and culturally dis...View all