Ümit Erzurumlu

“If music and mathematics were brothers and the wind and noise were relatives, we are the relative of everything. In my painting, I am in search of the relationships among the branches of the whole family tree, an entity travelling among them. As if the thoughts in my mind were chasing the words. The instrumentalist is accompanying the rhythm of the music while I am painting. I hear the heart beating of the fighters when I am drawing them. As for painting landscapes, I can listen to the screams of the roofs against the blowing of the wind.”

Ümit Erzurumlu was born in Sivas in 1974 and became recognized in his home country with his futurist style of painting. He studied fine art at Marmara University in 1992. During this time he took courses on print painting from Mustafa Aslıer and Fevzi Karakoç leading him to set up his own studio in 1996.

Defining his art under futurism and cubo-futurism his oil and print paintings were exhibited in the Library of Celcus in Ephesus in 1997,1998,1999 and 2000 and have taken their place in more than 60 private collections in different countries.

In 2016, one of his paintings was exhibited in Paris and selected for the UNESCO works of art collection and in 2018 he was invited to the VI. International Painting Biennial of Guayaquil & “Alvaro Noboa Ponton” to represent Turkey. He has been painting in his own studio in İstanbul for 23 years.