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interfacegallery.com ISSUE NO:1 - Update! (Arayüz-Galeri Sayı:1 / Güncelle!) 25 May – 9 July 2011
HAYAKA ARTIÇukurcuma Cad 19A Tophane Istanbul
Tuesday – Saturday / 11:00 - 19:00
What takes place when works that exist as visual images at interfacegallery.com are transported to a physical space / to the gallery?
interfacegallery.com ISSUE NO:1 - Update!, opened in Istanbul at HAYAKA ARTI Çukurcuma project centre on May 25th, 2011 under the curation of Derya Yücel . The exhibition includes the works selected by curator Derya Yücel which were uploaded before 10th of April 2011 to interfacegallery.com.
The communication project of the HAYAKA ARTI alternative art and culture platform, namely interfacegallery.com, started off with the aim of sharing art on the internet. Yet the internet is merely the first stage within this alternative online project. In accordance with what our title ‘interface’ implies, our essential target is to enable the freedom of movement of art between the virtual and physical worlds, thereby presenting the opportunity/possibility of a second encounter for those art works that have already met their audience on the internet, by bringing them back to physical/conventional media - particularly starting with exhibitions and publications- and experiencing whereto these media ‘clashes’ on different levels will lead us.
Up to what extent can the virtual environment actually replace a real gallery? Where are we going to end up if we return to the conventional exhibition space again, after transferring from conventional media to the virtual one? Artistic works regaining their third dimension standing next to other works that have undergone the same process, are they going to differ or remain the same? The recent exhibition Update! is the debut of a series of long-termed real world activities interfacegallery.com plans to develop with the supply of quite a few open-ended questions/problems that can be posed during the course of this back and forth movement between media.
interfacegallery.com is a "user generated content" project.
CURATORIAL PERSPECTIVE
Art has always been relational on different levels; a social driver and/or a means of dialogue. One of the potential strengths of an artwork is its ability to "establish bonds and relation". In this context, the curatorial aspect of "interface-gallery.com" will favour a general perspective on contemporary art, without focusing on a specific theme or giving preference to certain media. For this exhibition artists are expected to produce works that place unique perspectives in the center, proposing perceptual, experimental, critical and participative models where processes interact intensely, sometimes even in a challenging manner with each other and "connections" coming into existence as the result of an exuberant togetherness and dynamic visual encounter will gain visibility. Thus with the aid of a whole of various tools/media utilized, the reflections of parallel existences of personal features as opposed to universal features and private features as opposed to public features will be attained.
interfacegallery.com ISSUE NO.1 - Update!
25 May – 9 July 2011
Curator: Derya Yücel
Artists:
asli vural (Aslı Vural)
bacak (Hakan Selçuk Bacak)
badem (Badem)
berkay tuncay (Berkay Tuncay)
christina maria kulot (Christina Maria Kulot)
edagecikmez (Eda Gecikmez)
el-gringo (Lefor)
ercanvural (Ercan Vural)
esra (Esra Sağlık)
feza (Feza Velicangil)
fikret gercik (Fikret Gerçik)
firatbingol (Fırat Bingöl)
hatice (Hatice Kul)
kivilcim harika seydim (Kıvılcım Harika Seydim)
kutludamla (Kutlu Gürelli)
larakami (Lara Kamhi)
muratgermen (Murat Germen)
nese cogal (Neşe Çoğal)
ozan (Ozan Gezer)
ozge enginoz (Özge Enginöz)
tahir un (Tahir Ün)
tolgasv (Tolga Savaş)
zekine kundukan (Zekine Kundukan)
26.11.10
30.9.10
Gallery Artist Ankara , 13 October – 8 November 2010
Zekine Kundukan’s solo exhibition is in Galeri Artist Ankara between 13 October – 8 November 2010
Promising young artist Zekine Kundukan with her expressionist manner problematizes the morbid parts of family that are unquestionable, untouchable and even shaded into taboo, through a search as an insider aiming to get to the bottom of this normalized and banalized nature of this institution which also shapes the social memory.
She defines patriarchal praxis as the sum of perversion in families representing society as the least elements of it, where the power and the shape of this praxis vary according to the social dynamics even it’s global position of being status quo never changes. The rooted praxis, that also implies the social memory, lies beyond customs and traditions and is obviously visible when the alienation of women from their body, nature and identity, in other words depersonalization, unsatisfaction or othering of women is no secret while satisfaction is only conditioned to the continuity of this structure itself, even it is pegged down or not.
Construction of patriarchy in family
Zekine Kundukan uses or reinterprets the images arisen out of collective memory in her artworks those point out the contraposition in motivation of gender identity reconnoitering processes of boys and girls, women’s obligation to transform their body’s regeneration into men’s nature of consumption in order to provide the continuity of patriarchal structure, and the dominant role of masculine culture in girls’ pubescence acceleratingly played in a manner of exhibitionism.
Exhibition Opening: 13 October 2010
Coctail: 18:00
14.8.10
27.7.10
‘Art at Akmerkez’ , 13 August - 13 September 2010
Akmerkez is reorginizing ‘Art at Akmerkez’ exhibitions that aims to make art indispensable part of daily life. Akmerkez has done the honours of ‘Art at Akmerkez’ since 2003, and this time is bringing the audience together with six of most famous Turkish artists’ works between 4 May and 22 December 2010.
The events start with Burhan Dogancay’s exhibition on 4 May and continue with Genco Gulan, Zekine Kundukan, Ferruh Basaga, Filiz Azak and Tomur Atagok solo exhibitions in order. Additionally, a group exhibition involving Omer Uluc, Ozdemir Altan, Bedri Baykam, Burhan Dogancay, Tomur Atagok, Bubi and Komet’s works will be with art-lovers.
Zekine Kundukan’s recent artworks in which she paints the social traumas shaped with sociological, traditional and familial constratints will be displayed in a solo exhibition organized within ‘Art at Akmerkez’ between 13 August – 13 September 2010.
AKMERKEZ
Nispetiye Str. Ulus / Etiler Istanbul
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