Alea Pinar Du Pre harnesses the potent expressiveness of digital art to craft a figurative style that presents a distorted yet recognizable portrayal of everyday existence. Within her work, women's portraits emerge through fractured reflections, unveiling the fractured identities of her subjects.
Born in Austria in 1972, Pinar Du Pre is influenced by traditional fine art and design practices of Vienna art societies Kunstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette. Pinar Du Pre began her career in 1995 with cubistic oil paintings on wood where she pictured street scenes of Istanbul. Since 2006 Pinar Du Pre has developed her unique portrait style with inspiration in areas such as science, science-fiction, history and anthropology. In this style, she finds radically new and innovative approaches to painting in which she mixes digital art with ‘the real world’.
Pinar Du Pre’s technique involves a fusion of materials, outlooks, and diverse inspirations. With layered materials such as acrylics, printed elements, and gilt captured under an epoxy lens, Pinar Du Pre finds a physical representation of the layered reality she aims to depict in her subjects. Paying tribute to her main influences, Pinar Du Pre describes her style as "Jugendstil Pop-Art". Distinguishing herself from Pop-Art, which is largely stimulated by the iconography of materialism, Pinar Du Pre’s vision is intimate and intends to subvert the genre.
The artist states of her work: "My endless questioning the nature of our existence stems from an insatiable curiosity and an unfathomable love for truth. I believe in the sacredness of the human experience. Art is a canvas to mutate my curiosity into a form I can share—to transfer scientific curiosity into pictures—to give form to the formless.”
EXHIBITIONS
2021-24 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “Voltage,” Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Artplex Gallery
2018 Singapore Artstage, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
“Layered Boldness,” Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Beach Art Fair, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
“Frequencies,” Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Vue Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery
Group Show, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
Solo Show, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery
Group Show, Ransom Gallery
Artstage Singapore, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Singapore
Wynwood Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Miami, FL
AFF Battersea, Cube Gallery
AFF Antwerp, Cube Gallery
2017 Scope Miami, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Miami, Florida
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul
“FaceTime,” Solo Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York
AFF Hong Kong, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Hong Kong
Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Art Hamptons, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Southampton
Cube Art Fair, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery
Group Show, Luz Botero Gallery, Panama City, Panama
Christmas Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Scope Miami, Emmanuel Fremin, Miami, Florida
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul
AFF Singapore, Gama Gallery, Singapore
Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Girls Girls Girls Exhibition, Karbon Gallery, Istanbul
AFF Bristol, Sol Art Gallery, Bristol
Muse Art Festival Xuma Yalikavak, Bodrum
AFF Heath, Sol Art Gallery, Heath
Art Hamptons, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Southampton
AFF Hampstead, Sol Art Gallery, Hampstead
AFF Hong Kong, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Hong Kong
Group Exhibition, Villa domus, Honfleur
AFF Singapore, Sol Art Gallery, Singapore
AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York
“Kardesim Beirut,” Group Exhibition, Art on 56th Gallery, Beirut
“Snapshots,” Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York
2015 Scope Miami, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Miami
Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul
Dublin Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
AFF Seoul, Gama Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York
Art Hamptons, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Southampton
International Mini Art Exhibition Katara, Vision Art Center, Qatar
2014 Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul
Shangai Art Fair, Gallery Steiner, Shainghai
Solo Exhibition, AIC Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2013 Snapshot, Gallery Linart, Istanbul
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul
2012 Solo Exhibition, Austrian Consulate Istanbul, Istanbul
It Was Good While it Lasted, Gallery Linart, Istanbul
2011 Misidentity, Gallery Espas, Istanbul
2010 Nothingness, Gallery Ilayda, Istanbul
2008 Reincarnation of Art, Lucca, Istanbul