Ercan Akın
About
Born in 1979 in İzmir, Ercan Akın left the Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory, Department of Basic Sciences in 2002. He started Department of Painting at Dokuz Eylül University in 2004 and he graduated in 2008. The artist, who held three solo exhibitions, participates in many national and international group exhibitions and fairs. “I base my work on the problems of individuals and on meet with people at a shared point. The spaces I create display the disconnect between the fear of loneliness that everyone occasionally experiences and the life that everyone imagines for themselves. I create distinctive works that are able to symbolise this predicament by thinking of those who -- lacking the courage to face their fears -- struggle to have an identity and obfuscate reality in order to relieve themselves from the pressure of not having an identity.” He lives and works in Japan.
