About The Artist

SEMRA HASGÜLEÇ CURRICULUM VITAE She was born in Manisa on 03.11.1957. She has been graduated on the year of 1982-83 from the High Painting Section of Özdemir Altan workshop of Istanbul Fine Arts Academy. She has worked at the workshop of Prof.Giselbert Hoke in the international Salzburg Summer Academy where she has gone by the scholarship of the Austrian Government in 1984. She has participated to the exhibition at the Austrian Salzburg Academy. She has worked for many years in her own advertisement agency as the agency president. In 2007 she has established SemART Picture Workshop. She actually works at this workshop as Free Artist. There are her artworks in various local and foreign collections. PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS • 1986 State Fine Arts Gallery, Beyoğlu-Istanbul • 2014 Gallery Bohem, Nişantaşı-Istanbul GROUP EXHIBITIONS • 1982 DGSA Students 1st Picture-Carpet Exhibition State Fine Arts Gallery- Beyoğlu-Istanbul • 1982 Today’s Artists 3rd Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1983 Today’s Artists 4th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1983 17th DYO Painting Exhibition, Istanbul-İzmir-Ankara • 1984 Today’s Artists 5th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1985 Today’s Artists 6th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1986 Today’s Artists 7th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1987 Group Painting Exhibition, Min Art Gallery Kadıköy-Istanbul • 1987 Infinity Exhibition on the Film Project of Towards Infinity, Istanbul • 1991 Today’s Artists 12th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 2008 Interpreting Istanbul on 125th year 125 Artists İDGSA’80 II. Group Exhibition MSGSÜ Fındıklı, Istanbul • 2008 Atilla İlhan Art Gallery, Beyoğlu-Istanbul • 2008 Bindallı Art Gallery, Tünel-Istanbul • 2009 Interpreting Istanbul İDGSA’80 III. Group Exhibition MSGSÜ Fındıklı, Istanbul • 2009 Mediterranean University GSF (Faculty of Fine Arts) Antalya • 2009 Tüyap Istanbul Art Fair • 2010 Interpreting Istanbul İDGSA’80 IV. Group Exhibition MSGSÜ Fındıklı, Istanbul • 2011 Impressions of Istanbul Blackheads, Riga- Letonia • 2012 “The Footprints of the Civilizations in Anatolia”, Abbaye de Neumster, Luxemburg • 2012 3rd International Salon of Contemporary Art Esc-Alzette, Luxemburg • 2014 Workshop & Exhibition, Luxemburg • 2015 Ayvalık, Cunda International Art Workshop • 2016 Group Exhibition of Travel, Avek/Gallery Bohem İkitelli-Istanbul PRIZES • 1985 6th Istanbul Exhibition of Today’s Artists Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 2012 3rd International Salon of Contemporary Art Esc-Alzette, Luxemburg ABOUT MY PAINTINGS While painting I transfer my sketches that I did prepare by using the collage technique into the canvas sometimes like it is and sometimes as improvised. On my paintings where I adopted the abstract explanation style there are textures that bring the exploration in it on several parts. However, the nested color values are reflected on the surface of the canvas with various variations. Yes, the abstract explanation is my style. On my works, it may be seen that an understanding comes in front where the surface, texture and color relations are researched. The line, format and color values are on the first plan. I pay attention to the formation of a balanced plastic fiction by thinking an energetic movement and rhythm by using the color stains and various contrasts; because I follow an abstractive attitude where the multiple colored, next to each other, superimposed plans and objective images are increasingly melted. I believe that the horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines that I use time to time add a new movement to my paintings. As a matter of fact I don’t have a single style of working while performing my paintings. My workshop is an experimental space where I apply various materials and different technique; therefore I produce many artworks in different forms. I love materials so much; I like to use all kinds of material since they are completing each other or I feel like that. Many of them are improvised/momentum it means what so ever I think. So much so that sometimes I reflect out my sadness, darkness, desperation and sometimes my hilarity, my hope and my happiness by reflecting to the colors. Sometimes horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines enter in these colors and sometimes lines that give pattern taste. Sometimes those I produce are not similar; I guess it must be from my mood. Sometimes it’s like I want to use all the color persisting to everything, persisting to the events, persisting to the life. As I fight with the life. The paintings are sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes I want that all colors have to explode and flush from the canvas. My workshop is my refuge; since we are a whole with my books, by paints, all my materials. The sketches are touring in my brain like to talk with them when I don’t paint. Sometimes I develop project in my brain but sometimes I can’t transform them into the reality. Sometimes I feel myself as flying while painting. Yes this is for sure: For me my workshop is my refuge. I always feel myself like this in my workshop. It is very important for me to be here even I don’t paint but absolutely to be here under all conditions. In this only place I feel myself very good and free. As a matter of fact I love to be free…. SEMRA HASGÜLEÇ CURRICULUM VITAE She was born in Manisa on 03.11.1957. She has been graduated on the year of 1982-83 from the High Painting Section of Özdemir Altan workshop of Istanbul Fine Arts Academy. She has worked at the workshop of Prof.Giselbert Hoke in the international Salzburg Summer Academy where she has gone by the scholarship of the Austrian Government in 1984. She has participated to the exhibition at the Austrian Salzburg Academy. She has worked for many years in her own advertisement agency as the agency president. In 2007 she has established SemART Picture Workshop. She actually works at this workshop as Free Artist. There are her artworks in various local and foreign collections. PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS • 1986 State Fine Arts Gallery, Beyoğlu-Istanbul • 2014 Gallery Bohem, Nişantaşı-Istanbul GROUP EXHIBITIONS • 1982 DGSA Students 1st Picture-Carpet Exhibition State Fine Arts Gallery- Beyoğlu-Istanbul • 1982 Today’s Artists 3rd Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1983 Today’s Artists 4th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1983 17th DYO Painting Exhibition, Istanbul-İzmir-Ankara • 1984 Today’s Artists 5th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1985 Today’s Artists 6th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1986 Today’s Artists 7th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 1987 Group Painting Exhibition, Min Art Gallery Kadıköy-Istanbul • 1987 Infinity Exhibition on the Film Project of Towards Infinity, Istanbul • 1991 Today’s Artists 12th Istanbul Exhibition Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 2008 Interpreting Istanbul on 125th year 125 Artists İDGSA’80 II. Group Exhibition MSGSÜ Fındıklı, Istanbul • 2008 Atilla İlhan Art Gallery, Beyoğlu-Istanbul • 2008 Bindallı Art Gallery, Tünel-Istanbul • 2009 Interpreting Istanbul İDGSA’80 III. Group Exhibition MSGSÜ Fındıklı, Istanbul • 2009 Mediterranean University GSF (Faculty of Fine Arts) Antalya • 2009 Tüyap Istanbul Art Fair • 2010 Interpreting Istanbul İDGSA’80 IV. Group Exhibition MSGSÜ Fındıklı, Istanbul • 2011 Impressions of Istanbul Blackheads, Riga- Letonia • 2012 “The Footprints of the Civilizations in Anatolia”, Abbaye de Neumster, Luxemburg • 2012 3rd International Salon of Contemporary Art Esc-Alzette, Luxemburg • 2014 Workshop & Exhibition, Luxemburg • 2015 Ayvalık, Cunda International Art Workshop • 2016 Group Exhibition of Travel, Avek/Gallery Bohem İkitelli-Istanbul PRIZES • 1985 6th Istanbul Exhibition of Today’s Artists Istanbul picture sculpture museum, Beşiktaş-Istanbul • 2012 3rd International Salon of Contemporary Art Esc-Alzette, Luxemburg ABOUT MY PAINTINGS While painting I transfer my sketches that I did prepare by using the collage technique into the canvas sometimes like it is and sometimes as improvised. On my paintings where I adopted the abstract explanation style there are textures that bring the exploration in it on several parts. However, the nested color values are reflected on the surface of the canvas with various variations. Yes, the abstract explanation is my style. On my works, it may be seen that an understanding comes in front where the surface, texture and color relations are researched. The line, format and color values are on the first plan. I pay attention to the formation of a balanced plastic fiction by thinking an energetic movement and rhythm by using the color stains and various contrasts; because I follow an abstractive attitude where the multiple colored, next to each other, superimposed plans and objective images are increasingly melted. I believe that the horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines that I use time to time add a new movement to my paintings. As a matter of fact I don’t have a single style of working while performing my paintings. My workshop is an experimental space where I apply various materials and different technique; therefore I produce many artworks in different forms. I love materials so much; I like to use all kinds of material since they are completing each other or I feel like that. Many of them are improvised/momentum it means what so ever I think. So much so that sometimes I reflect out my sadness, darkness, desperation and sometimes my hilarity, my hope and my happiness by reflecting to the colors. Sometimes horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines enter in these colors and sometimes lines that give pattern taste. Sometimes those I produce are not similar; I guess it must be from my mood. Sometimes it’s like I want to use all the color persisting to everything, persisting to the events, persisting to the life. As I fight with the life. The paintings are sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes I want that all colors have to explode and flush from the canvas. My workshop is my refuge; since we are a whole with my books, by paints, all my materials. The sketches are touring in my brain like to talk with them when I don’t paint. Sometimes I develop project in my brain but sometimes I can’t transform them into the reality. Sometimes I feel myself as flying while painting. Yes this is for sure: For me my workshop is my refuge. I always feel myself like this in my workshop. It is very important for me to be here even I don’t paint but absolutely to be here under all conditions. In this only place I feel myself very good and free. As a matter of fact I love to be free….