Circus Print

Adnan Avni was born in Istanbul in 1962. He studied industrial design and various other subjects at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts. In close relations with the family-owned printing house, he grew a successful business in the advertising industry. In 1995, following his realization that the human way of life was shaped through fear and against human nature, he renounced the routines of his professional life and set out on a life more in contact with nature, away from the cities where humanity imprisoned itself in. Intrigued by his deep passion to experience the secrets of existence, he started on a journey of self-discovery with the intent to liberate his Self from the routines created by the collective consciousness and to attain his own specific definition of freedom. With the inspiration that comes through being in close contact with nature, he focused on his craft and his designs. He realized that the sketches he continuously drew in his notebook which he always carries around were the unconscious reflections of his intent towards life and started making paintings based on these sketches. Since 2015, he is living in the village of Mesudiye in Datça, Muğla in the southwestern district of Turkey with which he had forged strong bonds since his youth, where he observes the cities that gradually lose their ability to create a civilization from a distance and transmits his feelings and impressions through his works on canvas and on paper.