serkan özkaya
Özkaya was born at a young age during Thanksgiving in Turkey.
He comes from a good family; over the years he developed his own ways to become an artist.
In 1996 he proposed The Louvre to hang Leonardo’s Mona Lisa upside down for a few days, one or two, best for three… It’s a work-in-progress.
In 2005 Özkaya made a double size, golden replica of Michelangelo’s David based on a computer model and later toured it in New York.
In 2017 he turned Duchamp’s Étant donnés on its head by transforming the piece into a camera obscura.
Recently Özkaya is working on a giant crystal ball which doesn’t predict the future but the present and the present is just like now, only upside down.
ozkaya.art
Ozkaya studied all the pictures of the cast figure in Étant donnés, both those taken after Duchamp completed it and during the construction process. He mapped them all together using 3D-modeling software, and manipulated the figure so that it matches up to all the many viewing angles in the historical documentation. Then Ozkaya turned to Michael Taylor’s research and struck […]
