Artist of the night "Recep Batuk" at Liquid Art System Istanbul, Nişantaşı 🖼✨📃 Defined by a loud palette and a sense of sarcasm, Recep Batuk’s paintings juxtapose mundane objects, vignettes from everyday life with storybook characters and outlandish fantastic elements in seemingly irrelevant combinations that lack a sense of worldly time and place. The explosion of color and inanity sets the tone for Batuk’s world, which is simultaneously dark, raucous, obsessive, sophisticated, satirical, humorous, whimsical, playful and juvenile. A sense of contradiction is also evident in the artists’ use of traditional, Renaissance inspired compositional devices on one hand and a naïve painting style on the other. In Batuk’s compositions, divergent elements are each windows to or snapshots of an idiosyncratic dimension with its own visual language, set of values and symbolisms. The audience is to use their own imagination and sensibilities to decipher this schizophrenic reality and make it their own. #recepbatuk #otoparkçı #turkishcontemporaryartist (at Liquid art System Istanbul)