Kat Kar Teknik 1981

Erol Akyavaş made Kat Kar Teknik with what looks like mixed media on paper. I'm imagining the back and forth, the artist adding shapes, lines, and images, responding to what's already there. It's like a conversation he's having with himself, maybe even arguing. We see hands and objects, a keyboard, which are rendered in a dark, inky wash. But then he also has these little Byzantine-like images in gold. You see a similar interest in narrative and architectural space in the work of Paul Klee. Akyavaş’s lines seem to map not just physical space but also emotional and psychological states. I’m betting that he was working with thin washes of paint, letting it stain and pool. The process reminds me that artists are always in dialogue with one another, riffing off each other's ideas, and pushing the boundaries of what painting can be.