With his background in architecture and sculpture, Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal’s creations invite spectators to consider the space around them from a different perspective. Through his imposing artworks and highly recognisable figures, he creates an altered version of reality. The series of scul...
With his background in architecture and sculpture, Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal’s creations invite spectators to consider the space around them from a different perspective. Through his imposing artworks and highly recognisable figures, he creates an altered version of reality. The series of sculptures of paper planes and boats demonstrates great skill at folding metal, and the simplicity of form and sheer monumental scale of the pieces are an inspiration to see all three spatial dimensions. The Paper Plane is one of the artist’s simplest and most popular origami creations. Installed in an urban setting, it challenges spectators, becoming conceptual. And this is precisely the universal message that the Turkish artist seeks to convey.
Mehmet Ali Uysal was born in Mersin, Turkey, in 1976. A trained architect, he studied sculpture at the School of Fine Art in Ankara and earned his PhD in 2009. In 2008, he spent a year at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art in Bourges, France. He lives and works between Paris and Ankara. He achieved success with his highly original installations consisting of giant clothes pegs pinching the ground. His artistic style is close to that of the land art movement, and he has held solo and collective exhibitions in Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium, and Dubai. He is committed to the fight against climate change. His current exhibitions express his concern for the environment and conservation. Mehmet Ali Uysal is today considered one of the major figures of Turkish contemporary art.
