Melancholy Man

About Melancholy Man

This contemporary abstract outdoor steel sculpture represents a male figure.

Ferhat Özgür Görel’s dynamic sculptural work has been showcased in thirteen different countries. The Georgian artist’s bold modern vision is expressed in geometric form and bright colours. This hand forged steel piece is designed to represent a male figure—the largest shape rendered in black, with overlapping shapes in lime green, candy-apple red, orange, yellow and blue. Görel’s form and narrative relate to the challenging environment he grew up in a small village on the Turkish-Georgian border.

“My themes vary according to the given conditions, ranging from political turmoil, economic crises, identity, domestic violence, women's rights, to the dilemma between modernity and westernization. I try to reflect what I observe within life, which is to say nothing emerges from a void but from the realities surrounding us.” Ferhat Özgür Görel

Ferhat Özgür Görel was born in 1990 in Arvin, Turkey, near the Georgian border. He studied painting in a Fine Arts program in high school for four years in Ankara. At the Anadolu University Faculty of Fine Arts, he specialized in Sculpture from 2008 to 2013. After completing a nine-year art education in 2013, he began participating in international organizations, festivals, and symposiums. Görel has created 21 sculptures for public spaces in France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Russia, South Korea, Egypt, Italy, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Belarus, and Canada.