By Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Brost
To formally tame the disintegrating diversity of modernism or to order the remains of the pieces falling from the sky after an explosion, this is how much of what impression of what Erdogan Bulut has captured in his pictures. With the aid of biographical data, we can sense some of the things that the Zaza-born painter in Turkey has to convey in messages. And at the same time, analogies to exiles - especially to Arshile Gorky, the Turkish-born Armenian, the Armenian who was born in Turkey painter who died in New York. The works of Erdogan Bulut appear against this background like a continuity - as it were, like a constantly bubbling energy, which bubbling energy that is as disciplined as it is helpless in the face of on the other hand helplessly subject to slumps and fluctuations. Even the monotony of gray rainy days triggers feverish states within these artists. Out of this feverishness is created with restlessness, he a lavish abundance of colorful impress in which the vivid spots of color cannot clearly assert themselves against the the surroundings in such a way so that it becomes clear who will win in the end.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the trained topographer came to Germany and quickly found to the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, where he found artistic advice from Thomas Bayrle and Per Kirkeby. His own luggage includes the feelings rooted in his Kurdish homeland a sensibility rehearsed since childhood, and the sensitivity for colors, but also the conflict potential of high-grade but also the conflict potential of a high degree of conflict to the unloved profession, to the parents' understanding of tradition and the indoctrination of Islam. The freedom gained in painting mediates social contact, ensures a formal taming of the incompatibilities. Thanks to the colors, the latent pressure on the soul is alleviated. the soul, the colorful works weigh and arbitrate in the conflict between subject and object. The partial the conflict between the subject and the object of moods; they are snapshots that emerge in a violent in a fierce virulence. The externally visible ultimately points to the general sadness about that human that human inability to find a real solution to social social tensions. Erdogan Bulut has processed biographical incisions that reflect essential ruptures and incalculable essential breaks and incalculable risks, the quality of the quality of a new beginning is paired with hopelessness. The compulsion to art is rewarded with experience.
The dance of lively-warm colors evaporates to the appearance of dancing shadows.The use of black contours creates surreal references to shackles, in which the moments of moments of truth reappear again and again like an evocative vision. The overall resembles the course of the Sorrows of Prometheus; Erdogan Bulut's paintings convey earthquake-like effects, to which all painterly means are subordinated. Light and bondage struggle for victory. All works are based on of truth like a surreal moment and promises as hope and promises as hope a moment of the of the true.
Images of this power always emerge when the in an infinite loneliness, in an alternation of affection or betrayal or in a in a roller coaster of affection or betrayal or in a feverish rapture as a psychologically mutilated person. In this way abstraction and surrealism to a new world in which the pictures world in which the images act as islands of security, protection against false identity, and the feelings of fragility and despair with an artificial wall. In this way, ambivalent pictorial expressions of the need to explode and gentle melancholy, which becomes an active protest against the apparent helplessness. In this understanding, the black lines form boundaries of the inner against the outside, with which even the classification of whirling objects swirling objects provides temporary tranquility. The pictures of Bulut those who succumb to the influence of the other more than they would the influence of the other more than they themselves desire. Bertolt Brecht would remark: only concrete blocks do not vibrate.