Şükrü Aslan
Meczup (The Holy Fool)
2026
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Series
- Meczup Collection
- Dimensions
- 70 × 85 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
Against a dark, smoke-laden ground, a male figure woven from fluid coils of blue, orange and yellow fibre becomes the portrait of a melancholy inner world, carried by the rhythm of the hair-like skeins enveloping his face and shoulders.
About the Artist
Born in Gaziantep in 1986, Şükrü Aslan graduated in 2012 from the Sculpture Department of the Art Education programme at Çukurova University. His practice addresses the alienation of the individual through a social-realist lens: weaving his figures from coiled textures reminiscent of accumulations of wire and thread, he renders visible the intricate inner world of the individual. Exhibiting in cities across Turkey since 2010, Aslan was among the artists selected for the 39th Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition in 2021.
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