The Artistical Legacy between Fantastic Realism and Early Renaissance

The Artistical Legacy between Fantastic Realism and Early Renaissance.

Here on this issue, we will analyze the most struggled issue on art. How strong is the connection between Early Renaissance artists of the 1400's / 1500's and the Fantastic Realist artists of the present day? ...Well, this is most deepest issue and exceeds from the similarity of the palettes of the involved paintings of this issue. There is so much artists lived on Early Renaisssance which they surprisingly used strong visions exceeds from their era..

The most famous artist from this era is: Hieronymus Bosch aka: Jheronimus Bosch or originally as: Jheronimus van Aken. He depicts in his artworks as several triptychs. Among of his most famous artworks he depicts paradises which contains Adam and Eve and many wondrous metamorhosed creatures within. Also he depicts nude figures and tremendous metamorphosed fruits and birds around. Mostly used hell with depictions of various type of fantastic punishments. ("The Garden of Earthly Delights" one example) These paintings (especially the Hell panel) are painted with fantasies and dreams. 

In his paintings, and more powerfully in works such as his Temptation of St. Anthony, Bosch draws his fantastic dreams and artistic visions can be explained as fantastic art as unusual for the time. Bosch is also one of the most revolutionary draftsmen in the history of art, producing some of the first autonomous sketches in Northern Europe.

The next artist which can be seen as fantastic is: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or simply: Michelangelo. He mostly known as Sculptor. His most famaus and rare painting artwork is: "The ceilings of the Sistine Chapel". Michelangelo painted the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel; the work took approximately four years to complete. (1508–1512) This artwork mostly comes from the descriptions of  the Holy Bible.

In this marvelous painting masterpiece, we can easily see the figures are flying throughout the sky. In the bottom, several demons and devils are trying to catch down the sinners which they are desperately tries to survive from the punishments of hell.

Atop of this painting, we see the God which he flying throughout the air, and gives life and power to Adam with a single finger touch. All these Visions and Fantastic dreams are comes from the roots of his point of view of Holy Bible. And this marvelous artwork contains numerous suprisingly fantastic creations.

The other famous artist who use his artistic dreams and fantasies in his arts is: Peter Paul Rubens. The flemish artist lived in the era of Baroque period in the late 1500's.

Especially in his famous artwork The Fall of Icarus (1636), we can see two winged flying Ikarus, which they fall throughout the skies. His depictions of this artwork strongly comes from his artistic visions.

When we jumped the present era, we can easily encounter the Surrealism movement, the Fantastic Realism movements and Visionary Art movements which their art and their artists strongly use their artistical dreams and artistical fantasies for their highly aesthetical artworks. We will try to descript some of their artworks.

Boris Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantastic art movement. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling calendars.

Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery, gods, monsters, and well-muscled warriors and female barbarians engaged in battles or winged demi-angels flying throughout the skies with a several metamorphosed creatures.

The most famous artist of the original Surrealist movement is: Salvador Dalí. (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) Dalí is best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist artworks. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. Especially his most strong allegoric paintings is for the destructions that  caused by the 2nd World War.

He strongly depicts the Metamorhose of the different kind of objects, time-shifts, formal transformations and conceptual allegories in his marvelous masterpieces. The brush-technique on the surfaces he used is actually comes from the techniques of the Quattrocento era masters. 

Ernst Füchs is one of the most important present day artist from the Fantastic-Realism movement. He actually leads the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism movement. His paintings holds stunning fantastic visions, remarkably strong fantasies. In his artworks like "Adam Mysticus" he depicts Adam, Eve and the Prime-Snake which is the prime-devil himself, as appears with several allegorical-metamorphosed creatures and immense designs which comes from his strongly artistical visions.

Also as Salvador Dalí, the brush-technique on the surfaces that Ernst Füchs used is actually comes from the techniques of the Quattrocento era masters. 

Today's most famous Fantastic Visionary artist is H.R.Giger or originally: Hans Rudolf (Ruedi) Giger. And his visionary dreams and fantastic images he used on the surfaces mostly can seen on endless struggle of sins with a pleasure. They struggle the fantastic punishments near beings with devils and demons. Sometimes lustful figures with mutagenic manifestations smoothly appears from their bodies.

His depictions can be seen with several metamorhosed living creations, organic designs which also merged with mechanical parts, several humanoid figures merged with halfly biological / halfly mechanical parts with erotism. Leaden atmoshperes within barren surrealistic planets. His designs still influenced mostly in several famous Hollywood movies in science-fiction genre.

Philippe Caza is an Fantastic Realist and Science-Fiction Artist. And his paintings mostly contains his Scifi dreams, and artistical fantasies in his art. The technique he use on the surfaces actually detailed with his strongly colourful palette.

He actually depicts ultra advanced civilisations, shape-shifted figures which their internal organs manifested with biomechanical parts, conceptual creations with mostly intense landscapes.

  As far as we try to compare here, the connections shows itself in countless ways...
I try to unearthed some of them. But surely there are more connections as far as I try to compare a little.
Different eras naturally will differ each eras. Which of those eras contains full of different views. But in also artistically point of view, there are roots which can not be excluded especially in art for centuries.

(by: Alex Can Emed in 25 August 2012)

The Surrealist Art of Alex Can Emed

The Surrealist Art of Alex Can Emed:

Alex Can Emed is a Surrealist and Fantastic-Realist artist, professionalize as Painter, Matte Painter, Sculptor, Engraver, Illustrator, Etcher, Airbrush-Artist, Digital Sculptor, Visual Effects Designer, Practical Effects Designer, Sound Effects Designer, Graphic Designer, Character & World Designer, Conceptual Artist, Art-Director, Curator, Art-Criticer, Amateur-Historian and an Author.

Alex Can Emed's artworks evolved from his early period which he was influenced from Salvador Dali's masterpieces to his late era which he was influenced from Hans Ruedi Giger, on the other hand, Alex Can got his own illustrative color palette in his art which he achieved it from 1980's illustrative artists such as Frank Frazetta, Jeff Easley, Alfredo Alcala and John Buscema. 

Alex Can mixed this colorful characteristics into his Biomechanical Art style which is innovated by Giger.

So what Alex Can did is grinding all his inspirations together and mix them with his own designs and the Science-Fictional universe he designed.

(Rea Kalfaoglou's collection) 

Born in a well-rooted and noble family, Alex Can's complicated nobility has been came from his grandmother's mother's side from Ali Pasha of Tepelenia (Lion of Ioannina) and from Ali Pasha back to King Pyrhus I of Epirus and Serbian King Đurad Brankoviç, and also from his grandmother's father's side from Graf von Brandis (Ekrem Recep Batra), whom is a Tyrolean Count, also is a Cavalry Colonel and a Fighter-Pilot who flew with Red Baron himself in World War I, Alex Can's other nobility also came from his mother's family which descended from Şerif Çolak, the founder of Kula Mensucat, one of the first tapestry factories established in the Republic of Turkey back in 1920's in Izmir. 

This noble culture in his family gaved Alex Can to learn and enjoy noble traditional European Etiquettes and the European culture since he was a child, such as enjoying Baroque Music, Renaissance Art, Gothic Art and the European enlightment literature such as Existentialism and Stoicism.

Alex Can borned in 5 April 1981, which his very birthdate allowed him to enjoy the entertainment culture of 1980's & 1990's which will later strongly affected Alex Can's Surrealist artworks.

(Rila Köksal's private collection)

(Ali Güreli's private collection)

Begin to paint since his childhood. Graduated from Yeditepe University, Fine Arts Faculty, Plastic Arts section, on the Ateliers of Prof Ergin Inan & Ismail Ilhan & Prof Zahit Büyükişliyen & Ord. Prof Özdemir Altan in 2003. Since before his Academical education Alex Can dedicated himself on Surrealism by the beginning of 1997, and he is an artist who has won 10 awards in total. 

His artworks mostly aimed both on the Canvas and Photo-Block surfaces; he is not simply overseer to lookers comfort, or not try to create the images that the exacly for heal the lookers feelings..

The real purpose on his art is to making everyone to understand the wild nature of "Homo Sapiens".

To open the way of understanding our primitive nature that we hide within our intellect.

His artworks is exactly works like a device that works the same as the mirror.

A mirror that can reflect our wild nature directly back to us..

Alex Can Emed mostly making his artworks on canvas surfaces or pre-made wooden-plate surfaces with oftenly using Airbrush (Acrylics) and also with Oil Colors by using Misch Technique, sometimes he uses Tempera and Indian Ink for retouches. 

Alex Can Emed's artistical production is a slow process since it requires to get intense inspirations before he made any new upcoming artworks.

(HR Giger's private collection in Giger Estate, Zurich-Oerlikon)

  (Çiğdem Çolak-Yazıcı's private collection)

For centuries humanity try to conquer the lands, dominate the nature, try to converting the way of natural rivers. And also, as humanity we try to cancel the waves of riverfalls, and cutting forests out of lands, using the technology for mastermind the other creatures, using the technology for mastermind the climate and weather seasons.

And finally we use the technology to simulate the young-human generations as a "perfect-client".

And theese applications that the humanity process, is not comes from love or empathy.

Theese process directly comes from our hidden wild nature that possessed by lust, fear, and egoism..

At all theese for.. Alex Can Emed is about to create the images and visions that can "shock" us, and can face-to-face to our wild nature.

 

For that he use mostly use in his Art:

•  Metamorphosed forms like saw,

•  Old metalic parts that feels like used to be a part of an old fabrics,

•  Flying gothic forms, embryons that cloned together, empty vials,

•  Cave entrances that looks like crocodile mouth, saw teeths,

•  Humanioids that being erotical and mechanical metamorphosis (Erotomechanics),

•  Chemical bulbs, and genetic mutations,

•  Creatures that being biological and mechanic metamorphosis (Biomechanics),

•  Metamorphosed Skulls, forms that being Biological and Grotesque metamorphosis (Biogrotesque),

•  Bones and skulls that formed like as part as Gothic Structures. (Biogothic)

With that kind of material he choose, the images creates the feelings that the materials comes from both Futuristic and Gothic styles, the visions that he choose to add them with the iconographic material that Alex Can Emed choosed, the lookers start to feel like beeing an unsteady places, fearful places, places that feels general "grotesque" feelings, and brings to lookers minds looping over..

(Remake of this artwork is in Selim Yetkin's private collection)

Alex Can, making his artworks with using Airbrush pistol by spraying layer to layer while staying loyal to his sketches, it's a technical process requires concentration on the design rather than being just spontaneous on canvas. This ecole highly praises every single details and illustrative talents on the artworks, rather than praising just collaging random geometrical spaces and bold colors as we can easily see in most of the contemporary artworks today.

With the effect and consonansity of the disstressfull feelings that he choosed to show in his art just from the beginning.

That can be easily said exactly as;

 

"The wild nature of the humanity that which escape from it from the beginning."

 

Each artworks of Alex Can, is continuation of the same universe that he created, and so piece by piece the ongoing design of his imaginary universe being shaped as scene by scene.

Alex Can Emed continues to make his artworks since 1997 with 30 years of professional experience and since 2011, he has been in the international Surrealist communities with his art..  

Alexandros Can Emed is also one of the three Turkish students of Prof.Ernst Fuchs (Founder of Vienna School of Fantastic-Realism) along with the other Turkish student of Prof.Fuchs; Erol Deneç, and Alex Can Emed also the only Turkish student of Hans Ruedi Giger (Oscar awarded Swiss Surrealist Artist and a top-designer of Alien movies)

(Santiago Ribeiro's collection) 

Alexandros Can Emed is also an actual member of Fantastic-Realism Art movement known as "Vienna School of Fantastic-Realism" founded by Prof. Ernst Fuchs and making his artworks in Dark-Surrealist & Biomechanical Art ecole.

Special thanks to Otto Rapp, Jutta Venosa, Prof.Philip Rubinov-Jacobson and Santiago Ribeiro for continous support for Alex Can Emed's art vision.  

      And also Special Thanks to my Mom Gülçin Çolak, 

and my Baptismal-Mother Rea Kalfaoglou to their strong support on my art and their continous trust.

During his 30-year long career, he successfully done restorations on some of his early-artworks which had aged over by time. His artworks has been went to collections of Credit-Suisse, Credit-Lioness and personal collections of HR Giger, Santiago Riberio, Çiğdem Çolak-Yazıcı, Rea Kalfaoglou, Burcu Erkal-Salman, Nilgün Gerçel, Selim Yetkin, Ali Kemal Pasiner, Ali Güreli and Rila Köksal. 

(Special artwork dedicated by Alex Can Emed to his own Great-Grandfather and his comradeship of Red Baron back in WW1)

At least 15 years of his 30-year long career has been passed on by continously participating international surrealist exhibitions in various countries both across the European continent and the American continent.

Alex Can Emed with his mom Gülçin Çolak at one of the solo-exhibitions of Alex Can Emed, circa 2011, Istanbul

Alex Can Emed with his mentor, Oscar Awarded Swiss Surrealist HR Giger, on the 15th Anniversary of HR Giger Museum, with Giger took one artwork of Alex Can Emed into his private collection. Castle Gruyeres, Switzerland, 2013

Alex Can Emed with his mentor Prof Ernst Fuchs at De Es Schwertberger's Atelier, when Ernst Fuchs personally inducted Alex Can Emed into his own artistical movement as known as "Vienna School of Fantastic-Realism" ecole, Austria, Vienna, 2012

His short biography and past Exhibitions: 

"Surrealist and Fantastic-Realist Artist"

http://canemed.blogspot.com/

Born on 5 April 1981, when he was 10 years old in 1991, 1st Winner prize in the inter-school competition on the "Erosion" theme by TEMA Foundation while studying in middle-school in Özel Eseniş Koleji.

He took certification courses in Teleteknik A.Ş, which organized workshops to learn Deluxe Paint software (Grandfather of Photoshop) on Amiga computers of the 80's & 90's in 1991-1992

Learned English in Upper-Intermediate Level during his middle-education from his teacher and a Canadian Conceptual Artist of Sesame Street TV Show; Ray Everett. In Özel Yeni Ufuklar Koleji - School of Gifted-Childrens, Special college for the kids with High-IQ's. 1994

He took certification courses on Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Draw softwares at Lasalle Workshops by the tutorialship of Gökalp Baykal in 1997-1998.

He did an internship on 3D Design, Animation and Digital Sculpture and in the process learned to use 3Ds Max, Maya, and After Effects softwares. 1998-1999.

Since his childhood back in circa 1985 He learned drawing both by his mother's encouragements and by trying to copy the drawings from "Savage Sword of Conan" comics (published by Alfa Yayınları in Turkish) inked by John Buscema and Alfredo Alcala, when he was just 4-5 years old, he learned to paint with Oil Colors on Canvas from his mother Gülçin Çolak whom was student of both Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu's & Neşet Günal's Ateliers and later Prof Ergin Inan.

1995, By the middle of his High-School education, he chooses to get Fine Arts Faculty education for to aiming his artistical talents by the personal recommendations of Bedri Baykam.

1997, He attended workshops on creating Dungeon Master illustrations by using charcoal technique based on Tabletop Fantasy Role Playing games for 3 weeks in Canterbury, England, by some of the top-notch DM's located on the Canterbury. And he reached the stage of professionalizing his hobby of making Fantasy illustrations to turn them into Art. 

Worked as Graphic-Designer in Kuartet Advertisement Agency in 1997-1999 and later worked as Art-Director in Artepolativ Designworks in 1999-2014, and later as a Chairman in Artepolativ Designworks on 2014-2021.

He took an academic drawing techniques courses at Adasanat - Memet Güreli Atelier in 1997-1998

1998, Yeditepe University - Fine Arts Faculty, End-of-Year Exhibition.

1999, Yeditepe University - Fine Arts Faculty, End-of-Year Exhibition.

1999-2002, During this era, in his University education during his 2nd grade, he decided to make conceptual Surrealist artworks from now on, and joined group-exhibitions and professional competitions, outside in the faculty, and received awards.

2000 TÜYAP, Art Criticers Competition 2nd Winner Prize.

2001 Dyo - Young Artists Award, 1st Winner Prize.

2001, Yeditepe University - Fine Arts Faculty, End-of-Year Exhibition

2002 Hürriyet Newsweek "European Union and Turkey" writing competition 3rd Winner Prize.

2002 Turkish Naval Forces (Deniz Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı) 7th Traditional Sea Art Competition 1st Winner Prize, given by Admiral-of-The-Fleet Özden Örnek, Admiral Bülent Alpkaya and Commander-of-The-Turkish-Army, General Aytaç Yalman.

2002 Art-Ist 2002 Art-Fair Expo, Young Artists Competition & Exhibition 1st Winner Prize, given by the Art-Dealer Ali Güreli.

2002, Yeditepe University - Fine Arts Faculty, End-of-Year Exhibition.

2003 Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty, Painture department, Marmara Triennial Exposition (Kibele İş-Sanat Art Gallery), Honorary Award & Exhibition with his selected artworks.

2003, Yeditepe University - Fine Arts Faculty, End-of-Year Exhibition.

Graduated in 2003 Yeditepe University Fine Arts Faculty, Arts Plastiques department, on the Ateliers of Prof Ergin Inan & Ismail Ilhan & Prof Zahit Büyükişliyen & Ord. Prof Özdemir Altan & Sinan Demirtaş & Erdinç Bakla & Ferhat Özatar & Hakan Özer & Nuri Kuzucan & Gökalp Baykal, Müşerref Zeytinoğlu (In addition, he took extra courses under the supervision of Gülveli Kaya from the Graphic Design department during his education. (Plus, he received Art-History class lessons from Prof Ali Akay, Prof Emre Zeytinoğlu, Prof Kaya Özsezgin, Prof Gündüz Gökçe.)

2003 By the recommendation of Bedri Baykam, International Arts Plastiques Foundation membership UNESCO AIAP a+A (UPSD)

2004 UPSD End-of-Year Exhibition (UPSD Art Gallery, Maçka, Istanbul)

2004, TEMA Foundation, "The Future of Nature" Exhibition (AKM Art Gallery Taksim/Istanbul.)

2005 1.International Turkey Graemeen Microcredit Art Biennial. Honorary Award

2005 TISVA Turkish Foundation of Waste Reduction Art Biennial. Honorary Award

2005 UPSD End-of-Year Exhibition (UPSD Art Gallery, Maçka, Istanbul)

2007, By his mother Gülçin Çolak's recommendations, he participating in the painting courses by his ex-Master from Yeditepe University education Prof Ergin Inan, launched by Gallery Artist (Ihlamur) and learned Tempera techniques from him.

2007 "Midnight Fall" Alex Can Emed's 1st Solo Exhibition. (Naval Forces - Sea Museum Art Gallery / Deniz Müzesi Sanat Galerisi, Beşiktaş, Istanbul)

October 2010 Personal Retroespective Solo-Art Exhibition "Midnight Fall-II" direct reference to his 1st Solo Exhibition (Adaevi Art Gallery) Curated by Sibel Akkaşoğlu - Büyükada/Princess Island-Istanbul)

(2010-2011 - During this period, and by the arrangements of Rila Köksal, he was able to met with Surrealist movie director Alejandro Jodorowsky, and by Jodorowsky's humble and sincere helps, he was able to find personal connections with both of Prof Ernst Fuchs's circle in Vienna, and HR Giger's circle in Switzerland.)

12-30 April 2011, "Freedom" Joint-Exhibition; Beşiktaş/Etiler MKKM Gallery/Istanbul with his work;"The Radical Islamic Faschism Machine-I", by the recommendations of Bedri Baykam.

May 2011, Alex Can Emed's 3rd Solo Exhibition at Gallery Artist, Ihlamur, Istanbul, by the recommendations of Merve Deniz Koç and Prof Ergin Inan.

June 2011, Alex Can Emed has been personally inducted to "Vienna School of Fantastic-Realism" ecole by the recognition of Prof Ernst Fuchs in Vienna, Austria, with the personal invitation of Surrealist Artist Otto Rapp.

June 2011, Mission Impossible exhibition, Phantasten Museum Wien, Palais Palffy, Vienna, Austria, by the personal invitation of Prof Philip Rubinov-Jacobson.

August 2011, Curator Juliett Ramirez-Hernandez, on behalf of the Red Arte initiative, wrote a short introductory essay about the Surrealist art of Alex Can Emed.

6 August 2011, Can Emed - Exhibition; "The Eve of The Midnight" (Adaevi Art Gallery) Curated by Sibel Akkaşoğlu - Büyükada/Princess Island-Istanbul)

10 June 2012, Can Emed - 2nd Retrospective exhibition: "The Time of Dawn and Dusk" (Adaevi Art Gallery - Curated by Sibel Akkaşoğlu, Buyukada/Princess Island-Istanbul)

21-22 June 2013, Alex Can Emed has been personally invited by Aline Berseth and Sandra Mivelaz to the 15th Anniversary Celebrations of HR Giger Museum. Giger gaved his own supports by taking Alex Can Emed's artwork into his own Giger Estate private collection with his work "Biomechanical Humanoid Tryptich" at Gruyeres, HR Giger Museum, Switzerland. 

23 May 2014, Turkish Fantastic-Realist Artists Group Exhibition "Amak-I Hayal" at Park Art Gallery, Curated by Erol Deneç, in Kadıköy, Istanbul.

15 June 2014, Alex Can Emed's 3rd Retrospective Solo Exhibition, "Shadows & Luminocities", at Park Art Gallery, In Kadıköy, Istanbul, by the recommendations of Rila Köksal and Perihan Koca.

22 August 2014, Can Emed 6th Solo Exhibition, Çelik Gülersoy Art and Culture Center, Curated by Sibel Akkaşoğlu, Büyükada, Istanbul.

6 September 2014, "Visionaries" Seers of The Soul Exhibition, Behind The Blue Door Gallery, New York, USA, by the recommendations of HR Giger's Agent Les Barany and Curator France Garrido.

5 December 2014, Dream of Obscure Exhibition, Gallery Bohem, Curated by Burcu Erkal-Salman, Nişantaşı, Istanbul.

Alex Can Emed can be seen in: "Dark Star - HR Giger's World" documentary movie, February 2015, Frenetic Films, directed by: Belinda Sallin.

"20 Years In Art" 8th Solo Exhibition of Can Emed. UNESCO - AIAP - a+A - UPSD Art Gallery, Maçka, Istanbul, (With the recommendation of Bedri Baykam), 16 March 2015.

13 June 2015, "Turkish Contemporary Fantastic-Realist Artists" Group Exhibition, Curated by Erol Deneç, Caddebostan, CKM, CKM Art Gallery, Istanbul.

"I am an Artist, so I am Exist" group exhibition, 23 October 2015, Gallery LaVisione, Curated by Yonca Koçak, by the recommendations of Selim Yetkin, Maçka (Valdeçeşme), Istanbul.

20 July 2015, He arranged and Curated a Solo-Exhibition for his mother Gülçin Çolak, in Adalar Belediyesi Art Saloon, "Gülçin Çolak: 60 Years in Art", Büyükada, istanbul.

10 August 2015, Can Emed Solo Exhibition, Büyükada, Çelik Gulersoy Art and Culture Center, Under the supervision of Adalar Kent Konseyi, Curated by Prof Iskender Özturanlı, Istanbul. 

July 2016, "Legacy of Light - Generations of Vision" Exhibition dedicated for the Memory of Prof Ernst Fuchs at the Castle Gloggnitz, Curated by Prof Philip Rubinov-Jacobson, Austria. Participating with the actual assistants of Prof Ernst Fuchs and the other Surrealist Maestros such as De Es Schwertberger, Peter Gric, Robert Venosa, Philip Rubinov-Jacobson and Otto Rapp. Castle Gloggnitz, Austria, by the recommendations of Prof Philip Rubinov-Jacobson and Jutta Venosa.

August 2016 , Joining "International Surrealism Now" group which led by Surrealist Artist & Curator Santiago Ribeiro from Portugal as the only Surrealist Artist from Turkey amongst more than 100 well-known Surrealist artists across the globe, by the recommendations of Otto Rapp and Jutta Venosa.

International Surrealism Now - 2017, Portugal, Mafra, Palacio Nacional de Mafra, Curated by Steve Smith & with the supervision of Santiago Ribeiro, August 2017.

International Surrealism Now - 23 December 2017, Portugal, Coindeixa, POROS Multimedia Museum, Curated by Steve Smith.

International Surrealism Now, Dwarven Den, London, 23 April 2017

14 May 2017, "Turkish Contemporary Fantastic-Realist Artists" Group Exhibition, Curated by Erol Deneç, Caddebostan, CKM, CKM Art Gallery, Istanbul.

15 August 2017, Can Emed Solo Exhibition, Büyükada, Çelik Gulersoy Art and Culture Center, Under the supervision of Adalar Kent Konseyi, Curated by Prof Iskender Özturanlı, Istanbul. 

2017, Invited as a Special-Guest in a TV Show known as "Multiplayer Show in Dream TV, hosted & anchored by Kerem Hünal, for discussing his mentor HR Giger and his Oscar Awarded designs of "Alien", "Prometheus", "Alien versus Predator", "Species", and "Poltergeist" movie franchises.

2017, Invited by Murat Arda and Efe Tunçel to become an Author for Nouvart & Delikasap Magazines for writing articles about Surrealism, Fantastic-Realism and their connections with Heavy Metal.

17 November 2018, International Surrealism Now, Coimbra, Museu Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal, Curated by Steve Smith, 19 December 2018

Istanbulflaş Magazine 2018 Honorary Art Award, Given by Perihan Koca and Journalist Yaşar Kaba, 2018.

2018 Featured in "Deviantly Surreal Magazine", 4th Issue, with his artworks, by the personal invitation of Ana Neamu.

26 January 2019, 11th Edition of International Surrealism Now, Municipal Gallery, Curated by Antonio Vitorino, in Vieria de Leiria, City of Marinha Grande, Portugal.

International Surrealism Now, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Curated by Santiago Ribeiro, Paris, France, 24-26 May 2019.

24 April 2020, International Surrealism Now - 10th Anniversary Edition, Arts and Spectacules Center, Curated by Santiago Ribeiro, Figueira Da Foz, Portugal. 

22 August 2020, 75th Islander Artists Exhibition, Adalar Kültür Derneği, by the recommendations of Nino Varon, Çınar Meydanı, Büyükada, Istanbul.

International Surrealism Now, Galería Magia, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 October 2020

25 November 2020, International Surrealism Now, Gallery El Matador, Barcelona, Spain

16th Edition of "International Surrealism Now" in Arts & Spectacules Center , Curated by Santiago Ribeiro, Figuéira da Foz, Portugal, May 5 - July 11 2021.

International Surrealism Now, Kunsthof Galerie Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, 11 April 2022

International Surrealism Now, Bard's Inn, Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Caribbeans, 5 October 2022.

Alex Can Emed solo exhibition. Bard's Inn, Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Caribbeans, 8 November 2022.

International Surrealism Now, Galleria della Fantasma, Tuscany, Italy, 22 October 2022.

Alex Can Emed Solo exhibition, Galleria della Fantasma, Tuscany, Italy, 24 April 2023

20 June 2023, International Surrealism Now, Gallery Rivendell, Wellington, New Zealand

International Surrealism Now, Palacio Nacional de Mafra, Curated by Santiago Ribeiro, Mafra, Portugal, February 5 to 29, 2024

International Surrealism Now, Shotgun Studio, Spokane, Washington, USA, 6 September 2024

"International Surrealism Now" group show, Conimbriga Hotel do Paço, Rua Francisco Lemos, 43, 3150-140 Condeixa-a-Nova, Portugal, ADFP Foundation, Curated by Santiago Ribeiro. 15 January 2025

Alex Can Emed, continues to actively producing his art since 30 years of experience.

Alexandros Can Emed is a member of Phanari-Greek-Orthodox Community of Turkey and is also an Author on both Delikasap Rock Magazine and Nouvart since 2016.

http://canemed.blogspot.com/

Youtube link for Alex Can Emed's interview on Multiplayer TV Show (2017): 

https://youtu.be/GzlQHC-G0bk?si=BvYkX-LcZaxlmrFg

Alex Can Emed also gives academic-level private lessons in painting (oil-colors, tempera-techniques, and watercolors), drawing & inking & illustration, airbrushing-techniques & art-history and art-observing techniques & basic sculpting techniques & digital sculpting and photoshop techniques for both graphic design and for pixel-art.

For inquiries, wishes and cooperation suggestions, please contact: canemed.surrealistartist@gmail.com