• … Özlü is a painter of color. The colors create a vibrating and countercurrent like deepness, adding continuous movement to the forms that make up the paintings. The space, being both concentrated and mobile, while acquiring rhythm, also contains and spreads a powerful energy. It would not be wrong to define these paintings as a kind of “seismography that makes you dream.”
G. NADINE and A. KHATIBI
… Özlü is a generous and sumptuous lyric abstract painter who draws his inspiration from cloud play and the delicate swiftness of a magical prose. Clouds in silent tones, golden inscriptions on a background recalling moonlight; even the smallest part of the fabric is open for escape. The palette is elegant, the soft lines transforming into images without being figurative. Every frame is a tale worthy for Sheherazade, the magician.
A. NARDON
… Figures, in the form of silhouettes, appear involuntarily among surfaces of color determining the layers of the object. To which time and to where do these figures belong? They are melancholic human beings of the indeterminate and chaotic face of life. Figures belonging to unknown times are guiding the meanings of the artist’s paintings, which shape the abstract diagonal forms with movements of color.
D. ŞENER
… We notice a very calm attitude where every detail is meticulously calculated and relationships are analyzed within the overall structure. Özlü is like an Oriental dervish who likes to produce meanings from the objects he sees and the details of those objects; he reduces what he sees to forms and colors, presenting them to the viewer by interpreting them from the perspective of form and color. It is not the material side of the object that he sees.
K. ÖZSEZGİN
… A general impression, revealing the true Turkish character radiates from the exhibition. Özlü’s painting is, like Nazım Hikmet has used to describe his wife, “soft as silk, strong as silk.” Smoothness, grace and generosity join with discretion and vigor in his works. Impression, feeling, anxiety and first impulses are balanced with intelligence and culture, adding harmony and quality to Özlü’s painting.
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