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2nd TERM Exhibitions-Galleries-Events visits
ARTOPIA Group Show at Yunus Emre Institute-London
This is the exhibition held with the participation of 26 UAL MA Painting students and which I curated.
The 9-day-show was started with a preview night and ended with a lecture on "curation" by Geraint Evans. It was my first experience as a curator artist and helped me a lot to learn about curation and dealing with artist groups.
London Art Fair
London Art fair is a good opportunity to see artists from different disciplines, at different phases of their arts, art business and interactions. It was inspiring in terms of observing the audience reactions to art Works and detecting paralellisms with my current practice.
It is my second group Show in London with the participation of Turkish artists living in London. It was a lovely organisation proving “Art brings people together.” We united with the Turkish community in Lodon and talked about art during the opening night. I find group shows beneficial for the emerging artists as the event brings them together with communities and also they get the chance to showcase their Works.
Tracey Emin &Egon Schiele talks by Sir Norman Rosenthal
The event took place at Royal Academy of Arts under the Adult Learning Programme. It was hosted by Sir Norman Rosenthal and accompanied by his questions about Emin’s artistic career, personal life and the relation of her with Egon Schiele’s painting and personality. I appreciate Tracey’s boldness in her installations and paintings. The most outstanding question Rosenthal asked was “What makes you a good artist?” And Tracey’s answer was also brief and precise, “I do paint with my heart.”
UAL Lectures&Talks :Ged Quinn
Bela Forgets The Scissors, 1963
Quinn is a surrealist painter... In his paintings you can see a cherry cake, beautifully painted in the demure style of a 17th-century Dutch still life, sits atop a glass dish. He appropriates mediaval images and brings them back to today. At a stroke, he transforms this complex and unique structure into a mass-produced teatime treat, impermanent and consumable.
I was impressed by his imagination and surrealist approach.
UAL Lectures
Rosalind Davis is an artist and curator. It was a pleasure to listen to her experience and struggle to exist in the art jungle.
Jack-Candy Camp is a graduate MA painting student. In his lecture, we had the chance to listen to his advanture of interdisciplinary project. It gave lots of idea on how to pursue our search and survey.
Magic Realism at TATE Modern
MAGIC REALISMART IN WEIMAR GERMANY 1919-33
As I was inspired from Surrealism, I wanted to witness other movements related to surrealism. Magic realism is not surrealism. It derives its roots from the war traumas. Artists crave for peace at the time and try to reflect their desire for a calm life through their art. Some paintings suggest a distorted form, while others convey a distanced gaze. It is difficult to find common points and inspiration between the art works in the exhibition. But It was inspiring to witness a line of productions of one particular period.
Albert Birkle The Acrobat Schulz V 1921
KEW GARDENS
Chihuly: Reflections on nature
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Art and nature.Two spectacular and indispensables of my life. It was great to see them both together. It was definitely surreal. Alongside one of the most biodiverse places in the world, I saw the perfect marriage of art, science and nature as Chihuly's dazzling sculptures transform Kew Gardens and glasshouses into a contemporary outdoor gallery space. It was definitely inspiring.
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM : JEFF KOONS
Weeks after my visit and meeting the Rabbit, It has been sold for million pounds. So enchante!
This major exhibition offers an exciting journey through a career of Koons who has made as immense impact as Duchamp did in art environment pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. From the moment he burst onto the scene with floating basket balls and ready-made objects to his recent re-working of classical statues and Old Master paintings, Jeff Koons has, at turns, delighted, shocked and intrigued his viewers.
Koons helped the curation of this exhibition himself. And it features 17 major works, from the 1980s to today.
They include some of his most well-known series such as Equilibrium, Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball paintings and sculptures.
Like Koons , I have a tendency to refer to the art history and appropriation. I like paying tribute to old masters and getting inspired from their works and spirit. However, despite his popularity and groundbreaking prices people pay to his art, to me, it is still disputable whether Koons is a good artist or not. Because he does intervene in the making process ver little. so it seems he just gives the idea and the money and makes other artist work for him. That is a big question mark in the art market.
White Cube: Sarah Morris
Sarah is one of my contemporary artists. I love her technique and colour palette. She is also good at filming and documentary which is a common point with my artistic style.
UAL INTERIM SHOW at NUNNERY GALLERY: SQUEEZED
The interim group show was my 3rd exhibition in London. It was curated by UAL MA painting students and was another great experience in terms of acting together with a group of emerging artists. The name Squeezed emphasizes the artists' condition of our age. Squeezed in the studios, squeezed in financial terms, squeezed in time, squeezed by political systems like squeezed paint tubes.
Also, the diversity of the techniques and material, themes and practices were strengths of the show. It was empowered by a group critique during which each artist could talk about his creative process and painting. These gatherings and shows are efficient ways of preparing the artists for the future or current cases in which they will have to talk about themselves and their art. I was there with my "Dear Cutter, Don't Cut Me" oil on canvas 120*100 work.
GALLERY VISITS WITH THE MA TEAM and MASTER GERAINT
One afternoon, a lot of gallery pop-ins..It was a fulfilling experience to walk around the city and galleries with a group of artists and their master. This is how art is practiced: by seeing, touching and feeling it close.
JACKSON POLLOCK at Whitechapel Gallery
Jackson Pollock has always been a great inspiration to me. My first pieces were very much under the influence of his paintings, action painting. I love his free spirit and wise sayings on art. One most memorable for me is, " When you understand you are done with your painting is very similar to when you understand you are full."
MY HEART, MY ART
BRITISH LIBRARY :MAKING YOUR MARK
This exhibition became my greatest inspiration for my research on finding the link between hierogliphs and emojis.
I discovered the extraordinary story behind writing, one of humankind’s greatest achievements.
There exhibited more than 100 objects spanning 5,000 years and seven continents beginning with Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mayan symbols carved in stone, follow writing’s remarkable evolution through to early printed text such as William Caxton’s 1476 edition of The Canterbury Tales, the first book printed in England, and on to the hand-written notes of some of history’s greatest minds – Captain Scott, Mozart, James Joyce, and Florence Nightingale amongst them.
This exhibition was a must see for the artists who make use of letters, alphabets, semiotics and symbols.
It gives the chance to reflect on the beauty of writing as gold-laden calligraphy, created by a Japanese empress, and royal charters show how writing carries history in its every stroke.
What was more magical was seeing the projections of ancient and elementary human mindset on writing’s of today.
There was a critical question which I questioned in my contextual practice as well :
Will we abandon pens and keyboards for voice and video messaging or, as history has shown, continue to carry the traditions of ancient times with us?
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS: SUMMER EXHIBITION
Royal Academy of Arts Summer exhibition was one of the most inspiring shows I have ever seen. It made me really hopeful about the future of the art. The creativity and labour of mostly emerging artist from different cultures and media inspired me in terms of many future projects. I love Londen once again that I am in a city full of art and energy.
AGNES MARTIN
Artist in conversation: Rose Wylie and Frances Morris
International Women’s Day 2019: feminist time
The exhibition of 3 women artists were to celebrate and bring about some women issues on women`s day.
During the events and exhibiiton such questions were discussed. What is feminist time? How have scholars, activists and artists interrogated the concept of time to overturn hegemonic narratives of art history? What can challenging and reimagining history do for future artists? How can we collect and curate women’s art?
I love art as it helps to raise awareness in the society.
Agnes Martin, in particular, has always been a leading figure for me since I met her during my art education in London with the simplicity and flawlessness in her paintings.
Fransis Bacon at Gagosian : Couplings
"The moment a number of figures become involved, you immediately come on to the storytelling aspect of the relationships between figures. And that immediately sets up a kind of narrative. I always hope to be able to make a great number of figures without a narrative." says Bacon for his art.
About Bacon`s paintings, he was an artist capable of flamboyant allegory. I believe he sees the beast in every human being. They are usually very drastic and complicated scenes, however they are well balanced with bright colours and sometimes light. Thus, this makes me feel ambiguous about Bacon`s mindset and heart.
This exhibition of Francis Bacon’s double-figure paintings and my interest in Bacon`s life and artistic career made me quite drawn to human figuratives. I have started working on creating my own type of figures and lines.
Faith Ringgold at Serpentine: Raise Your Voice Unite Tell Your Story
As an artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold has challenged perceptions of African American identity and gender inequality. Growing up in the creative and intellectual context of the Harlem Renaissance and inspired by her contemporaries she is widely recognised for her painted story quilts combining personal narratives, history and politics ‘to tell my story, or, more to the point, my side of the story’, as an African American woman.
She is an outstanding woman artist in terms of combining arts and crafts and having a great ability of tellung her story through her works. The exhibition was worth seeing.
British Museum Sketch Observation Day
British Museum has a secret room where experts are working on old masters` sketches trying to figure out their techniwues, fix them and make them more long lasting. For me, it was a very exviting experience to see the drafts and outlines of masters and try to do a copy of one of Van Gogh`s landscape sketch.
Design Museum and Stanley Kubrick Exhibition
The exhibition tells the story of Stanley Kubrick the meticulous genius, exploring his unique command of the creative design process of film making, from storyteller to director to editor. You can witness how Kubrick created genre-defining worlds for his films and relive iconic scenes from The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey and more.
There are objects from the films, interviews, photographs which enables you to have an exclusive insight into his mind.
the exhibition also creates an area to explore Kubrick’s special relationship with London, as his primary film location and source of inspiration.
