Six Points by Kaan Bağcı – mixed media www.dijibutik.com
It’s very difficult to ‘label’ the work of Kaan Bagci. He fuses graphics and illustration with Fine Art conceptual elements. Many of his works consist of beautifully designed, drawn, formed and conceptualised images. His drawings and collages of animals, such as geese, fish, insects, are drawn in a clinical and detailed manner. Each image has an anatomically scientific and academic textbook feel; a feel where they could almost have been drawn and created a hundred years ago. However, each piece has a contemporary edgy and almost futuristic quirky twist.
Bagci is interested in music and has been a part of school choirs and variety of music ensembles. He also took part as an instrumentalist and actor in Netherlands, Italy, India and other countries.
Bagci started his artistic career as a professional web designer at Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and continues to work as a visual arts and animation instructor. Over the years throughout his commissions and employment Bagci has continued to maintain and develop his varied and personal portfolio.
In his own words
What are you currently working on?
I’m currently working on
- Balance board illustration & making of video project for çapasunta & uniball posca markers
- Drawing Turkish characters for ad. agency (it’s still running)
- Continue to still working on my personal drawings, nanostructures & animals series
Four Points by Kaan Bağcı – mixed media www.dijibutik.com
Your images use mixed-media, fusing photographic collage with beautiful detailed drawings, Fine Art materials and techniques. Pulling from so many resources, how you select what to use and what to disregard from your experiences?
Actually I don’t know how can I explain 
so I will try..
My creating period is not static or not systematic. Maybe it’s good for me, or not.. I don’t know :)), but I love this style it keeps some secrets and surprises for me :).
Inspiration – sketches or surfing on internet (billion of images) – catch the true material
And Ready! Set! Go!
Working with so many personalities who commission your work from different genres, for different ages, all having different visions, what are the most challenging aspects of working as an illustrator or graphic designer?
All the works are so difficult if it’s being made for money!
Nano Structure by Kaan Bağcı www.dijibutik.com
Your recent work is visually complex and conceptual which challenges the viewer. Describe the steps involved in creating your works. How do you develop your ideas through to resolved finished images?
Everything is matched to another material (for example images, sounds, words, numbers…) in my mind, so it makes things easier for me in the creating process of my works.
Untitled collage & illustration
What concepts are you currently exploring and what will you embark on next?
I’m currently working on crystals and horns (for example: black crystal or trigonal crystal in my works).
I try to make crystal horned animal portraits
Kaan Bagci was born in 1986 in Manisa, Turkey, as a child of a family of designers and he started to draw at an early age. In 2011 Bagci settled in Istanbul and was working as an illustrator and web designer. He also continued to work on his illustration drawings, sculpture, design and photography. His works have been published on websites such as Bamarang, altıncıcadde, dijibutik and etsy.com.
All images courtesy of Kaan Bagci www.kaanbagci.com
Untitled collage & illustration
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