Expressing the Pain of Destruction through Art

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Tarih 23.06.2024
Birim Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture
SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

I address the concepts of annihilation and rebirth
“With what I witnessed in my art, I followed a path from society to the individual, from me to the general to the specific,” says Coşkun, continuing his words as follows: “This allowed me to gain a perspective in the structure of ‘Social Realism’. Yes, I had problems. However, these were not rare or unique problems. Therefore, if I wanted to tell, I had to understand. In this case, ‘Narrative’ effects began to appear in my works. While trying to convey lived or possible stories in a social realism structure, I tried to watch what exists, not what is utopian. The ‘I’ that exists between my work and the viewer had to be removed, and the work had to complete its ontological process and exist, reaching the viewer in its purest form. In my works, I address issues such as ambition for position, longing for the past, annihilation, abandonment, rebirth, and the revival of nature with the metaphorical structure of the threshold concept. I try to process these issues by shaping ceramic forms that include architectural structures. "I also describe elements of war, genocide and brutality in my works. My current artistic attitude and technique were formed as a result of a forty-piece installation in which I dealt with the remains of war."