Dorftrottel

In connection with his oriental origin and roots the artist Ali Zülfikar paints using wool colours with sensually luminous tones. He received the experience in dealing with wool colours from his mother and other experts of his native country and this experience gave him the base to develop his own methods of production of his colours which has been optimised from him during the course of the years.

Preferential colours are red-tones in all shading forms which are usually combined with a joyful, sunny-colourfully brilliant yellow. However, a profound blue prevails quite often in his pictures. A viewer perceives the artist confrontation with living natural colours, plant colours and its material consistency and structure. Some colours like for example blue, deep-blue and green have been produced of special raw materials.

The artist works with colours coming directly from his native country, Turkey. In his studio he processes them in a very subtle way. His colours are unique in this respect, because they keep their strong colour radiation after years and not fade at all what commonly happen by the utilisation of plant colours.

According to its origin the colour structures are supported by original Kelim fragments. The narrative style of the pictures is built using many archaic motives and symbols with a central theme: caravans, wandering and migration. In this way the artist processes his own experience with the intention to give an understanding of his life and work to the following generations.