Mahir Güven Painter Türkiye 1958

GÜVEN, Mahir (Istanbul, 1958 Türkiye)
He studied at the Painting Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in the Neşat Günal studio and graduated in 1981. He won the Drawing Branch Award in the 1981 Osman Hamdi Painting Competition and the First Prize in the 1989 Fine Istanbul Painting Competition. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He continues his work as a freelance artist in Istanbul.
Guven studied at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts between 1976 and 1981. He has held 14 solo exhibitions, participated in numerous collective and group exhibitions as well as national and international art events. He is currently practicing his art at his studio in Istanbul. Artistic characteristics: "My story begins in middle school. I was cleaning the palette of a great master. On the one hand, I was a young man of those years, possessing the most revolutionary ideas. As the well-bred child of an educated and financially stable family, acceptable subjects and canvases adorned with beautiful colors were never my goal. Drama, while contradicting itself within that ornate life, always influenced me. I knew exactly why I went to Neşet Günal's workshop. Günal was my second master, who not only painted there but also made the entire human interaction of the geography we live in his subject matter. He told me, 'My friend, you must show me more of your drawings.' My childhood, which had previously grown up with Hikmet ONAT's masterful figures, was perhaps the result of my belief in that artist's desire to create documentation, a feeling almost like responsibility, at school, the Mahir Güven you know."
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