About Ali Zülfikar Dogan
Ali Zuelfikar, 1970 born in Milelis-Yavuzeli-Tr 1989-95 Studies at the Firat University in Elazig with Prof. Memduh Kuzay, Cemal Arslan 1992 until now freelance artist lives in Cologne and in Turkey since 1997 in Germany since 1992 free sheep that artists as painting In the intergymnasialen competition he got his first price. Since 1992 it participated in some TV-channels in the art programs. An exhibition at a stop in Gaziantep provided 1993 for large resonance. 1995 took place the Exmatrikulation from the University of Firat in Elazig. Art project 1997 art project escape times , international human right association Bremen e.V + city Bremen Public work Public and private collections in Turkey, Germany, France, England, Italy. Art seminars and art symposium in Germany, Turkey and Russia Its work was published in following newspapers, magazines and encyclopedia (Who is Who). Some its works also as Romancover and first page for musiccassettes, as well as poster and were published. Over its life and his art in the different international TV channels as documentary films were radiated. The secret of the artist Ali Zlfikar! It won the experience in handling Wollfarben of its nut/mother and of many other humans and developed the methods with the production of its colors over many years further. Some colors (blue, darkblue and green) are partly made of special raw material. To its roots standing it paints eastern telling in sinnlichen, bright colours, schwelgend in Wollfarben. Preferential colors are combined red tones in all shades with merry, sun-colored radiating yellow. In addition, a deep blue is often the basis in its works. As a viewer one notices the argument of the artist with the alive natural colors, plant colors and them own the Materialitt and structure. The artist refers and continues to process the colors directly from its homeland, Turkey her affectionately. Its colors are unique, because they do not fade as usual usually with plant colors and thus after years still by the radiating colors keep their strong, special, also expression caused by the structure. According to its root and request, he supports the structure and uses original Kelim of fragments. The telling style turns out from archaische motives and symbols, caravans, the migration and migration brings up for discussion. An experience, which it through-lived into its deepest pores and with its works of the following generation more near to bring would like. Ali Zülfikar’s interest in the Mesopotamian culture (to which he applies again and again) and his consciousness of the imperturbable cultural traditional duration has undoubtedly to do with his origin background. He was born in 1970 in a small village in the eastern Anatolian part of Turkey, where the traces of ancient culture were present everywhere. As a child he was drawn to art, beginning with drawings he made for a girl, in which he had fallen in love. In grammar school competition, he received a first prize. In 1993 he applied again for the Academy of Mimar Sinan in Istanbul. Then followed studies at the University of Firat / Elazig in the east. From then on, the pictorial design became his element to express his experiences and to be connected in communication with other people. He studied art in the metropolis of Istanbul, and participated in many exhibitions, which often politically-motivated basis finally forced him to leave Turkey. In 1997 he moved to Germany, first to Bremen, later on to Hagen. In 2002 he moved to Cologne, where he opened this year his own art gallery. The Zeugma Gallery, named after an historic town nearby the Euphrates River, is located in Cologne (Hansaring 149) and combines exhibition and Atelier operations. Ali Zülfikar basically uses only wool colours and developed self-made vegetable dyes for his paintings because of the particularly bright color and because these pigments contribute more than other colors the trace of the earth itself. The connection to ground is especially important to him in his paintings. It is to the ordinary people\'s everyday lives of millennia-old history of Mesopotamia, connected with all underlying nature as the human being find his way in simple moves from building houses to making tea, accompanied by grief and sorrow and on boundless wings desire. \"From Babylon to Cologne,\" as one of the pictures is titled. It does not only describe the individual way of life of Zülfikar as an example of the experience of many migrants in the present. At the same time the conviction is connected that culture has no borders and a cultural mixture as it was established long ago in Babylon, is of topical interest. In this spirit is shown that Zülfikar’s painterly approach is even at first sight, absorbed in the tradition of its origin. A closer look reveals how he combines the figurative-folk roots of the oriental imagery with abstract-free elements of modern occidental art.