3 ARTISTS, 3 EXHIBITIONS AT ARTER
Three concurrent solo exhibitions consisting of all-new works by Bahar
Yürükoğlu, Murat Akagündüz and Şener Özmen will take place at Arter from
30 March to 15 May 2016.
Bahar Yürükoğlu’s exhibition “Flow Through” takes as its departure point the artist’s
experiences during her travels to the Arctic Circle in 2015. In her artistic production,
Yürükoğlu experiments with light, space, and colour; and her exhibition on Arter’s
ground floor will feature installations, videos, photographs and sound that blur the
boundaries between the natural and the artificial. Murat Akagündüz’s exhibition
“Vertigo” presents a new series of white on white oil paintings depicting some of
world’s highest mountain peaks as seen on Google Earth. Relying on digital data to
depict nature, Akagündüz refers to the transformation of the human-nature
relationship with the advancement of technology. Şener Özmen’s exhibition
“Unfiltered” revolves around platforms that allude to a vernacular architectural
wooden form, used in hot climates to spend summer nights outdoors. In the allocated
space, these wooden structures function as planes for revisiting desires or creating
new memories; and with this exhibition, Özmen explores the ways in which an artist
might escape a recognised and fixed identity.
Bahar Yürükoğlu: Flow Through
Curator: Duygu Demir
Bahar Yürükoğlu’s exhibition takes as its departure point the artist’s experiences
during her travels to the Arctic Circle in 2015, both in the summertime, when the sun
doesn’t set, and during the winter months, when darkness prevails. In this exhibition,
she creates fictional spaces based on the dualities she observed in the Arctic region;
tackling presence and absence, past and future, and nature and civilisation, mining
towns and advanced-technology science villages. Drawing its inspiration from melting
icebergs and polar bear postcards, the exhibition opens up to the viewer’s
experience Yürükoğlu’s installations combining light, colour, and sound.
Murat Akagündüz: Vertigo
Curator: Aslı Seven
Murat Akagündüz’s exhibition presents a series of white on white oil paintings
depicting some of world’s highest mountain peaks as seen on Google Earth, and
explores the transformation of human-nature relationship within the landscape
tradition. How is the act of painting transformed when we rely upon the mediation of
digital data to depict an actual physical landscape? In a satellite view of the earth, the
paintings represent a vertical perspective; with the horizon nowhere to be found, our
sense of being grounded is disrupted, and a sense of vertigo sets in.
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Şener Özmen: Unfiltered
Curator: Süreyyya Evren
Şener Özmen's exhibition tackles the concept of “recognition”, and expands into the
artist’s individual “demands and desires” which arise following the process of being
recognised. Exploring the position of the artists who have been associated with a
fixed social identity, the exhibition is structured around platforms that allude to a
vernacular architectural wooden form used in hot climates to spend summer nights
outdoors. In the exhibition, these pieces function as planes for revisiting desires and
creating new memories.
ARTER - space for art
İstiklal Caddesi, 211
Beyoğlu 34433 İstanbul
T + 90 212 708 5800
[email protected]
arter.org.tr
Opening hours:
Tuesday–Thursday
Friday–Sunday
Closed on Mondays.
11–19
12–20
Admission free.
Images of the works in the exhibition can be downloaded at the link below:
http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/Files/PressItems/201603_Arter.zip
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Üstüngel İnanç
+90 530 569 3221
[email protected]
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