Nejat Sati B.A. M.A. Dokuz Eylül University Izmir works as an independent professional
artist in Istanbul and has participated artist-in-residences in programs in Turkey Germany
and Nederland. Since the 2005s he has participated in numerous international exhibitions
biennials and triennials. Nejat Sati's abstract work incorporates a variety of techniques and
media including painting performance drawings sculpture collaborative works and
site-specific installations often experimental materials. In his enigmatic painting Sati
explores cultural hybridity and transculturality as basic conditions of our globalised lives.
Sati's vibrant large-scale recent works layer colour fragments with applications and scrapings
of imposto and fosforic material expressing complex psychological histories and emotions. The
immersive nature of colour is fully illustrated. The book comprises of nearly hundred images
from past ten years with an emphasis on his most recent work series. These colour intensive
works which could be perceived as reflections of the layers of the artist's subconsciousness
despite being produced simultaneously different time periods are interconnected and in a
continuous dialogue with each other.
