OKTAY
Besides painting, I have been interested in different art disciplines since my student days. By using different expression possibilities of each discipline I have been able to better understand and describe myself. In this context, I have started to develop my relationship with nature art in recent years. I feel very excited about the idea of being in nature through nature art, being one with nature.
It is of great pleasure to me to produce works of art with natural materials in the country, to communicate with the environment I work with, to think about the possibilities that will be presented to me, and to create an appropriate aesthetic design without harming nature. Being able to produce artworks having nature as inspiration and as main developer of my creativity allows me to be free from greed, my identities and my labels. I mean, in between nature, I am able to be alone with "I".
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Oktay DEĞİRMENCİ was born in Erzurum, Turkey. He graduated in Painting in the Buca Faculty of Education and as Master in Fine Arts in the Institute of Educational Sciences Department from the Dokuz Eylül University. Although he finished his studies as a painter, he has worked with different materials and means, lately related to nature art. His works have been exhibited in several international Symposiums and Festivals such as INTERNATIONAL NATURE ART Environmental Sculpture Symposium GABROVTSI 2018 (DUPPİNİ&PATİKA ART GROUP), 8. TORUN INTERNATIONAL PAINTING SYMPOSIUM "Malownicza Barbarka", POLAND (2016), “IDEAL AND REALITY” workshop and exhibition, Normal University - Chengdu, CHINA (2015) and International Plastic Arts Festival Monastir – TUNISIAN (2013), among others, and in three solo exhibitions in Istanbul and Izmir.
“7191”, Bahçelerarası İzmir / TURKEY (GNAP TURKEY 2017)
“KYBELE”, Bahçelerarası İzmir / TURKEY (GNAP TURKEY 2017)
“Love Valley”, / Kapadokya / Nevşehir / TURKEY (GNAP TURKEY 2017)
“TRACE”, Bird Paradise / İzmir / TURKEY (GNAP TURKEY 2017)
“Urban Forest ”, / İzmir / TURKEY, 2018
“Veliko”, Tarnova / BULGARIA, 2018
Çeşme / İzmir / TURKEY, 2018
İzmir / TURKEY, 2018
“ Veliko ”, Tarnova / BULGARIA, 2018
“Three Columns”, Sardeis / The Temple of Artemis / Manisa / TURKEY 2018