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Tayfun Erdoğmuş researches how nature can be transformed into an aesthetic and mystic work of art. His works encompass the traditional and the modern, nature and canvas, and are open to different readings. Erdoğmuş recently developed an interesting, original style that simultaneously embodies tree leaves (which most of us throw in between a book to dry out) and the issue of surface in painting. He forms calligraphic features from the stem and veins of leaves and produces images that resemble written characters, flowing horizontally in stripes. Erdoğmuş brings a new perspective to the established relationship between an artwork and nature. Here, nature is not realistically imitated as an object of beauty, but is rather transformed into part of the work itself. Erdoğmuş refreshes the category of ‘still-life’ painting in the history of art. His works also traces a minimal approach that makes do with less.