Like A Wild Flower
Akif Hakan
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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Chanson d'amour VI,
2007
Akif Hakan
Photography : color edition
150 x 100 x 3 cm 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
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150 x 100 x 3 cm 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
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The artwork is dated, signed and numbered on verso of the Diasec.../7
The artwork come accompanied with an original Certificate of Authenticity issued by the studio of the Artist and signed by the Artist.
This artwork come directly from the Artist's Studio.
The subjects of Akif Hakan’s photographs are more than just sultry females. They are carefully crafted characters, born from the strange world of the artist’s imagination. Drawing from a wide range of influences, including fashion, Asian cinema, and the history of photography—experimental portraits by Man Ray, for instance—Hakan’s images present a modern take on fanciful femininity.
Hakan, who hails from Istanbul but now lives and works in Miami, treads the line between fashion photography and fine art, and has earned recognition as “one of the best new generation photographers of the future” from Italy’s Max Magazine and a spot as a finalist in the International Color Awards. His works are defined by an affinity for vibrant palettes and a palpable aura of feminine mystique, whether conveyed through bright backdrops against which heavily costumed women confront the viewer, or more voyeuristic works set in domestic spaces.
In his recent body of work, Hakan explores a fascination with Asian cinema and culture. Works like those in the series “Love Triangles & Its Confusing Complications” (2013) bring the noir-inspired lighting and jewel-toned palette of Hong-Kong films like Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love into the space of photography. Other images offer a glimpse into the flamboyant world of Japanese fashion. In Fashion Is Image and The Minds of the Mads VII (both 2009), Hakan appropriates Tokyo’s famed fairy tale and anime-inspired Harajuku style, presenting heavily made-up models adorned with toys, flowers, or S&M-style corsets. These women are unsmiling as they confront the viewer, raising the question: is this decoration merely a dramatic facade, or is Hakan’s work a critique of deeper cultural conditions.
- K. Sundberg
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Shipped from France
The artwork is dated, signed and numbered on verso of the Diasec.../7
The artwork come accompanied with an original Certificate of Authenticity issued by the studio of the Artist and signed by the Artist.
This artwork come directly from the Artist's Studio.
The subjects of Akif Hakan’s photographs are more than just sultry females. They are carefully crafted characters, born from the strange world of the artist’s imagination. Drawing from a wide range of influences, including fashion, Asian cinema, and the history of photography—experimental portraits by Man Ray, for instance—Hakan’s images present a modern take on fanciful femininity.
Hakan, who hails from Istanbul but now lives and works in Miami, treads the line between fashion photography and fine art, and has earned recognition as “one of the best new generation photographers of the future” from Italy’s Max Magazine and a spot as a finalist in the International Color Awards. His works are defined by an affinity for vibrant palettes and a palpable aura of feminine mystique, whether conveyed through bright backdrops against which heavily costumed women confront the viewer, or more voyeuristic works set in domestic spaces.
In his recent body of work, Hakan explores a fascination with Asian cinema and culture. Works like those in the series “Love Triangles & Its Confusing Complications” (2013) bring the noir-inspired lighting and jewel-toned palette of Hong-Kong films like Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love into the space of photography. Other images offer a glimpse into the flamboyant world of Japanese fashion. In Fashion Is Image and The Minds of the Mads VII (both 2009), Hakan appropriates Tokyo’s famed fairy tale and anime-inspired Harajuku style, presenting heavily made-up models adorned with toys, flowers, or S&M-style corsets. These women are unsmiling as they confront the viewer, raising the question: is this decoration merely a dramatic facade, or is Hakan’s work a critique of deeper cultural conditions.
- K. Sundberg
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Presentation
Akif Hakan is an American-Turkish photographer born in 1980 in Istanbul, Turkey. His career started in the United States in 2004 when he was hired as a cameraman in Miami. He was fired later on and he found himself unemployed for some time, which gave him a lot of time to experiment with other visual arts, specially with photography which became his real passion. He lives between Hong Kong, Istanbul and Miami.
Akif Hakan's sensual photographs capture more than the eroticism or glamor. Hakan carefully draws his characters and scenes, influenced by fashion, cinema, the history of photography and the experimental protraits of Man Ray. His objective is to go beyong the traced territories and to free himself from the traditional rules of photography in order to be able to combine different techniques and create another kind of stories. His glamor plans as well as his artistic nudes resemble a lot cinematographic scenes.
After several years of hard work, Hakan became one of the best photographers of glamor, working between Asia and the United States. His portfolio presents female models of different ethnicities, but specially Asiatic women who are known for with their soft and seductive feminity. Hakan is known for his ability to create tangibly intimate scenes and voyeurs, erotic scenes arranged in domestic spaces, such as bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. Known as one of the best photographers (of the new generation) by multiple fashion magazines and finalist at the International Color Awards, he impresses everyone with his ability to capture the intimate and domestic mood and to mix dark feelings with glamor and fashion.
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