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Born in Eskişehir in 1980, İrfan Dönmez received his education in Painting and Postgraduate Print Arts at Anadolu University Faculty of Education. Dönmez, who frequently uses mixed media and experimental materials in his works, influenced by his education in printmaking as well as his education in painting, often pursues a canvas painting between painting and graphics, outside of conventional painting/peinture methods. Dönmez tries to visualize the way memory works. While doing this, he shapes the dark areas of memory, the gaps, disconnections and flaws of remembering by stacking the images in the form of cut-outs. Black-and-white or strong color contrasts with passport photos, the plastic interpretation of the instantaneous ‘I’ image and the cartography of memory push the viewer into an uncontainable and incomprehensible act of remembering. The artist, who does not base his style solely on plastic foundations but also creates an original painting language with the plurality of shaping techniques he uses, continues his work in his studio in Eskişehir.