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Life and nature are the raw materials of art. That is true. Living requires skill. It is not the expediency of just breathing. It is the ability to breathe when your breath is taken away. Creating art, on the other hand, will find itself in a search accentuated by durability and aesthetics, with different abilities. Concerned with how to evaluate the maturing period of my adolescent mind, I directed myself with the consciousness of art being a "difficult craft", with no tolerance for the easy way, free from the logic of "I've done it, so it's done," without taking advantage of some of life's wastes. |
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I have been the protector of logic. I chose a way of shaping in which the reality is covered with aesthetics with the emotions at the forefront of our minds, without choosing a "labeling" approach. I saw art as the monument of a moment in the process of emotions, without limiting the concept of the "Search" with the finality of "Found". What is presented here, are the results of that search. ALİ CANDAŞ
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He was born in 1940, in Beşikdüzü, Trabzon. He finished Gazi Primary School in Erzurum, where his father had been posted. In 1952, he was accepted at the Erzurum Pulur Village Institute after taking an examination. In 1956, he became a student at the painting seminar of the Çapa Teacher's School in Istanbul. He graduated from this school in 1959, and became the teacher of the Istanbul – Çatalca Bahşayiş village school. The same year, he won second place in the Ankara Gazi Educational Institute Arts and Crafts Department. In 1962, he was appointed arts and crafts teacher to the Urfa Girls Teacher's Institute. He was transferred to the Trabzon Co-educational Middle School in 1965. Because he loved his job, he didn't stay long there, and transferred to Ordu Perşembe Teacher's School as arts and crafts teacher six months later. He opened his first personal exhibition in this city in 1971. In 1973, he was appointed as art teacher to Çapa Teacher's School in Istanbul, where the spark in him had first kindled. After teaching in this school for five years, he was transferred to Istanbul Atatürk Educational Institute. The year was 1978. After working as a professor at the same institute (Marmara University, Atatürk Educational Institute, Fine Arts Educational Department, as it is now called) for long years, he retired at his own request in 2006.As Ali Candaş is an art educator who loves his job very much, he devoted a 20 year long slice of time to his students. He started working for his art in 1982. He has participated in around 150 joint or group exhibitions while opening 55 personal exhibitions. |
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