Server Demirtaş, who was born in Istanbul in 1957, entered the Painting Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts (today M.S.G.S.A.) in 1977, studied at the workshop of Devrim Erbil at the Academy, whose name would later be transformed into Mimar Sinan University, and graduated in 1984. After his graduation, the artist collaborated with Adnan Çoker, one of the leading names of Turkish abstract art. The artist, who graduated from the painting department, has always positioned himself as a sculptor, seeking the possibilities of the third dimension in his works. Demirtaş's three-dimensional installations, which he created from layers by covering the newspapers with PVC in his early years, were pioneering and prominent works in his period. The artist, who received the Achievement Award in the "New Trends Exhibition" held by Mimar Sinan University in 1987 and which was the most innovative contemporary art exhibition of the period, won the Painting and Sculpture Museum Jury Award in another important exhibition, "Today's Artists Istanbul Exhibition" in 1989.
Demirtaş's innovative understanding of art, seeking constant change, started the era of moving sculptures in 1997, which he created by bringing together different machine parts. The mechanical sculptures of the artist, who did not receive any engineering education, are among the important examples of kinetic sculpture art in Turkey. Ready-made materials ranging from car windshield wipers to bicycle brakes, which Demirtaş used during the formation of his sculptures, are brought together with the methods invented by the artist to provide movement through the wheels, from the robots of Al-Jazari in the 12th century to the machines of Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th and 16th centuries. and in a journey that goes back to the kinetic sculptures of Jean Tinguely in the 20th century, it allows us to rethink the relations between science and art, technology and human. Some human emotions that cannot be captured in the speed of daily life and become increasingly mechanized are conveyed to the audience with an impressive reality by being taken in slow motion in Demirtaş's mechanical sculptures.