Adem Goksugur

About the Artist
Adem Göksügür was born in Manisa - Akhisar in 1962. During his high school years, one of his pictures won an award in a picture competition in Germany. He studied German Language and Literature, and Theology. He is a teacher and married, with three children. Besides his oil painting studies, he repairs antique wooden objects. His love for wood led him to pyrography which is not widespread in Turkey. He is influenced by Seldjuk and Ottoman arts and applies antique dyes and varnish, which he uses to repair wooden things, to his pyrography. He uses the "Edirnekari" technique, a form of antique Anatolian art, in his pictures. In his studies, he uses shellac which is obtained by melting aniline dye and pine resin and bone in alcolhol. He stays away from synthetic lacquers. He works with plywood as well as natural sections on plane, oak, walnut and chesnut woods.
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