About us

Afacan Gallery is Eser Afacan’s offical online gallery. By opening this gallery we invite you to buy art directly from the artist, this at a gallery whereby art will be the spectacle.

We will offer Giclées, lithographs, charcoal drawings and oil paintings. All certified with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

We hope you like our concept, and find the Afacan Gallery to be both pleasing and provoking.



The Giclées will exclusively sold here, and this as a supplement to traditional stone lithographs.

Eser Afacan is a pioneer with the Giclée technique and started this process more than 10 years ago. Afacan’s intention with the Giclées is to breath more life into the pictures, and each graphic piece will become closer to an original charcoal drawing than any other graphic before.

Being different than a normal stone-print, the time of creating one Giclée print will often be close to one hour, this under close supervision by the artist Eser Afacan.

The technique and paper will give each print the appearance more like an original drawing.

The complex way of making each print will also guarantee the impossibility of any mass-production.

All series are printed on 315g high quality rough textured paper. Each print is numbered and signed by the artist. Each print is also delivered with a certificate of authentication this signed by the artist as well.

This certificate is also a valuable piece of paper that proves your Giclée is an original graphic piece bought from Afacan Gallery.



I have worked with stone-lithographs for the last 25 years.
My first lithograph was a picture called “Holy Moon”, and when I was finished with drawing, the stone was delivered on the machine, and the etching process started and finished. The person responsible for the printery then washed the picture off.

As I did not know the process I did not understand that the image was still chemically in the stone. Anyway then they gave the ink to the machine, and the printing on the paper started. After a short while my 150 pieces was finished.

Afterwards I asked for my stone with the picture, and he said I could not get it, as it was washed, and anyway not possible to store all the stones made. As a matter a fact this is what makes the stone graphics as original piece of art.

For me the stone was supposed to be a tool to create an image, just like Eva Langaas she is creating an image by using the stone as a tool just like brush or pencil. For me she is making an original stone print, and I am very much grateful to learn this from her.

In my case when I made the image on the stone I expected to get the same result on the paper as I made on the stone. At least a successful print will give that result. If I do not wash the stone after I print also my stone print would not be accepted as an original print, it would be called reproduction. If the stone was not heavy, or like a copper plate every artist would keep the original. In my case I have destroyed my original works just to produce a graphic piece.

Comparing with Eva´s case, Eva used the stone as a tool to create fine art. In my case I created fine art by destroying the original, this just because the marked could feel safe that the work would not be printed again. If one artist prefer the stone print it is possible to make beautiful things it depending on what effect one wants to achieve e.g. lavering or etching techniques. Only stone can give this effect.

Copper print has its own character, if you make one line on it, and compare it with a similar line on the stone each will look like two different works as the characteristics of the copper and the stone are different.

As I am a charcoal drawer I wanted to make an experiment on making a print looking like my charcoal drawings, or the paintings. In the 21st century this is possible, but with one difference. I wanted to make a graphic piece without destroying my original drawing for making the print.

So what should we do then if I want to make that kind of print?
If I keep the original it is technically possibly to produce again. Anyway I will make it impossible to print again with my certified originals. The way I do this is to sell each print with a reference paper it is not possible because of technology to copy. On this paper I declare and sign that it will not be printed again.



Please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Afacan Gallery
Storgaten 7
NO 1440 Drøbak
Norway

or by sending an e-mail to sales@afacangallery.com