Burak Ata

In his works, Burak Ata has always been chasing the traces of his autobiographic transformations as an artist. He positions himself at a permeable point ina particularly unpretentious manner and thus records and transmits the tides of his personal and the quotidian. He questions how both the intuitiveknowledge and the learned one efects our perception in diferent ways. Thanks to his kind treatment of Early Renaissance painting he carries in an eclectichumor and a subtle criticism that would not be revealed in any other way than the implementation of Early Renaissance style that was developed beforeand outside of the 'academic' and 'monotonous' understanding of modern/linear perspective. The grammar of his paintings is abstract but the way he interprets subjects contains figurative elements. We usually see figures that melt into a spatialnetwork, that are crushed by or pushed to the background by the heaviness of the space. This figure has an implication to auto-portraiture, yet it alsopoints to the idea of an artist in general. Architectural components, or any element that serve to the feeling of the space represent the structural, theinformational and the cultural. The representation of the structural elements also brought him where he depicts his world with objects, installations andgames.