Smile From The Dark Room

Eser Gündüz

Eser Gunduz’s totemic paintings combine powerful gestural brushstrokes and bold color fields with fine details that evoke instruction manuals and scientific diagrams. The Istanbul-based artist aims to represent imaginative utopias in his skillfully structured multimedia paintings. Gunduz’s rigorous discipline and expressive style have earned him exhibitions in Milan and Istanbul, and he enjoys a thriving market for editioned and unique works on Etsy. Gunduz arrived at artmaking after studying architecture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and aspects of the discipline still inform his creative process—we should not, he believes, make stark distinctions between design and fine art.