30 Ekim 2022 Pazar

Feyzan Alasya “Gündüz Düşü / Daydream” Sergisiyle Galeri Diani’de

Feyzan Alasya.


Feyzan Alasya, “GÜNDÜZ DÜŞÜ / DAYDREAM” adlı sergisiyle 5 Kasım’dan itibaren Galeri Diani’de! Sanatçı bu sergisinde gerçekleri şiirsel bir dille yansıtırken hüznün, acının ve haykırışın evrenselliğini bir kez daha duyuruyor bize.

 “Sen şarkı söyle,  ben yürürüm senin şarkınla.

Sen bağır, acını ben duyacağım.” (Paul Valery)

Feyzan Alasya güçlü desenleri, çarpıcı resimleriyle şarkılarını söylüyor ve izleyenler hüznü ama bir yandan da umudu sezerek yürüyorlar onunla. Gerçeklerin şiirsel bir dille yansıtıldığı resimlerinde Valery’nin dizelerindeki hüznün, acının ve haykırışın evrenselliği bir kez daha duyuruluyor bize.


Feyzan Alasya, Levitation Nation I, 2022, tuval üzerine yağlıboya, 185x230 cm.


Feyzan Alasya’nın resimleri onun dünyayı anlamaya çalışma ve bir çözümleme yoludur. Onun yapıtlarının yaratım süreci Tahsin Yücel’in bir çözümleme yönteminden söz ederken belirttiği gibi “bir kendi ken­dini dinleme, kendi kendisiyle coşma alışkısı değil, öncelikle ‘başkası’nı anlama, ‘başkası’nı anlamanın nesnel koşullarını oluşturma çabasıdır”. Ve belki bu nedenle insanlığın yaşamı anlamlandırma isteğinin bir ürünü olan mitoloji, mitolojik figürler resmin izleğini oluşturmuştur.

Resim düzleminde kullanılan figürler eşsüremli bir dizge oluşturmaktadır. Bir yanda mitolojik figürler, bir yanda günümüzü çağrıştıran desenler aynı uzam içindedirler. Bu eşsüremlilik önceyi, şimdiyi ve sonrayı birlikte değerlendirmeye, belki de bir yüzleşmeye olanak sağar.

Onun zamansız resimlerinde anarşiden söz edilebilir. Her türlü otoriteyi reddeden anarşi bir başkaldırı olarak yansır bize. Bu başkaldırı aslında hüzünlerden, var olmanın acılarından yola çıkarak yaşam sevincinin ve mutluluğun arayışıdır. Bu arayış, dünyayı anlama çabası yaratılan bilinçli düşlerle sürer, güçlü desenleri düşlerin, düşlenenin yaratımıdır ve Sanat dünyayı yeniden yaratır. (Metin: P. Şükran Sabanuç).

Bu çarpıcı sergi siz izleyicileri 5-26 Kasım tarihlerinde Galeri Diani’de bekliyor.


Feyzan Alasya, Tepegöz, 2022, kağıt üzerine karışık teknik, 50x30 cm.



Feyzan Alasya Kimdir?

1976 İstanbul doğumlu sanatçı, Marmara Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi Resim Öğretmenliği mezunu. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Resim Anasanat dalında Yüksek Lisans yapan sanatçı, yaklaşık iki buçuk sene ressam Kasım Koçak ile çalıştı. İtalya’da Florence Academy of Art bünyesinde eski ustaların yağlıboya tekniklerini deneyimleme fırsatı da yakalayan sanatçının eserlerinde “desen” unsuru öne çıkarmaktadır. Feyzan Alasya’nın eserleri birçok koleksiyonda yer almakta ve çağdaş fuarlara katılmaktadır.

 

Galeri Diani

Gsm: 0533 236 31 34

Bostanbaşı Caddesi No 3/D Beyoğlu/ İstanbul

 

 

20 Ekim 2022 Perşembe

Hasan Basri İnan “Bir Ömürlük Misafir” Sergisiyle Galeri Soyut’ta


Hasan Basri İnan, “Bir Ömürlük Misafir”, 2022, Tuval Üzerine Yağlıboya, 80x60 cm.


Hasan Basri İnan “Bir Ömürlük Misafir” isimli sergisiyle 21 Ekim – 9 Kasım 2022 tarihleri arasında Galeri Soyut’ta.

Eser içerisinde yer alan imgeler, bir zamanlar yaşanmış ve yaşantı kesitlerinden anlık görüntü alınarak resmedilmiştir. İmgenin her parçası, kendi içinde bir içeriği taşımayı amaçlamıştır. Yapıtın içerisinde yer imge, izleyici ile göz göze gelmesi ve izleyiciyi uzun bir yolculuğa sürüklemesi, bu yolculukta izleyicinin belleğindeki bazı anıları kısa süreliğine hatırlanmasına neden olacaktır. Bu çekilen bir fotoğraf ya da bir nakkaş duyarlılığında işlenen arka plan…

Bu portreler üzerinde açığa çıkan eskiye olan yakınlık, siyah-beyaz fotoğrafların yağlı boyaya geçişinin ön zeminini hazırlamaktadır. Portre’nin, “Fotoğrafik Görüntü” temsili üzerinden hazırlan ve onları geleneksel çini ve kilim motifleriyle destekleyen yeni anlam arayışlarını da beraberinde getirmektedir. Fotoğrafik görüntünün içinde yer alan imge, onu yansıtan zaman algısını anlaşılabilecek bir biçimde somutlanmıştır. Resmedilen figürün siyah-beyaz olması, geçmiş zamanlardan bir felsefeyi uzak zamanlardaki köklerinden günümüze taşırken, kimi zaman resimlenen anonim portreler, kimi zaman aşina olduğumuzu sandığımız bir dervişin, kimi zamansa saraylı bir hanımefendinin tasviri olarak betimlenmektedir. Eserlerde arka planın renkli oluşu ise, dönemin insanı’nın ne zorluklar çekerek o kökboyaları ile yaptığı yünden ilmiklenmiş ipleri görmezden gelmek mümkün değil.


                                   Hasan Basri İnan, “Bir Ömürlük Misafir”, 2022, Tuval Üzerine Yağlıboya.80x60 cm.


Hasan Basri İnan
Hasan Basri İnan, 1992 yılında Malatya’da doğdu. İlk, orta ve lise eğitimini Mersin’de tamamladı. 2011 yılında Mersin Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'ne dereceyle girdi. 2015 yılında Seramik Bölüm birincisi ve Güzel Sanatlar Fakülte ikincisi olarak mezun oldu. 2015 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü, Seramik Bölümü, Yüksek Lisans Programını 1.lik ile kazandı. 2011 yılından beri, ressam Ahmet YEŞİ rehberliğinde sanatsal çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. Türkiye Seramik Derneği ve Seramik Sanatı Eğitimi ve Değişimi Derneği üyesidir. 8 kişisel, 70’den fazla karma sergi, 10’dan fazla ulusal ve uluslararası jürili sergiler. Workshoplar, Sempozyumlar, Uluslararası Fuar ve çeşitli etkinliklerin yanı sıra Almanya, Fransa, İngiltere, Portekiz ve İspanya’daki uluslararası karma sergilerde yer aldı. 5 ulusal, 5 uluslararası ödülü vardır. 2018 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü Seramik Bölümü Tezli - Yüksek Lisans Programını tamamlayan sanatçı, çalışmalarını Mersin’deki atölyesinde sürdürmektedir.

 

                            Hasan Basri İnan, “Bir Ömürlük Misafir'', 2021, Tuval Üzerine Yağlıboya ve Akrilik, 150x110 cm.


Hasan Basri İNAN

He was born in 1992 Malatya. He completed his primary and secondary education in Mersin. In 2011, he was admitted to the Mersin University Faculty of Fine Arts with degree. In 2015 Ceramics Department 1st. And Faculty of Fine Arts 2st. Graduated as. In 2015 Hacettepe University Institute of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department, won 1st. with the Masters Program. In Since 2011, he continues to receive painting courses from painter Ahmet Yesil. He is a member of the Turkey Ceramic Society, Ceramic Art Association Education And Society. He  8 solo, more than 70 group exhibitions, more than 10 national and international jüried exhibitions.  Workshops, Symposiums and Various Events. He 5 National, 5 International awards. In 2018 He graduated from Hacettepe University, Fine Arts Institute, Department of Ceramics - Master's Program. He continues his works in his workshop in Mersin.

 

Galeri Soyut

Adres: Yıldızevler, Şht. Mustafa Doğan Cd No:82/A, 06550 Çankaya/Ankara

Telefon: (0312) 438 86 70

15 Ekim 2022 Cumartesi

Krassimir Kolev: “It is not a depiction of the forest, but an expression of a love story.”

Krassimir Kolev.


Krassimir Kolev's new series "The Secrets of the Woods" is also a brand new beginning for the artist. In his words, the beginning of a new love story. The deep blue that dominates the paintings is simply fascinating.

 

Interview by Ummuhan Kazanc

 


 

                    Krassimir Kolev, “The Secrets of the Woods 6”, 2022, oil on canvas, 140 x 200 cm (Diptych).



Dear Krassimir Kolev, thank you very much for accepting our interview request. We are also very happy to include your works in All-in-Line’s Art Exhibition section. First of all, we would like to get to know you a little better. Who is Krassimir Kolev?

I was born and raised in Bulgaria. I moved to Vienna, Austria in 1991 to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts. I had the privilege to study for two amazing Professors, Joannis Avramidis and Michelangelo Pistoletto. 

Already as a child, I was always painting and my only dream was always to become an artist, so for me, there was no other path. All my energy was directed toward this only dream. Afterward, I can say, that I was not very talented, but I have always been very passionate. Already at the age of 16-17, I had a plan to do art for 8 hours a day (because that’s what a professional worker does, they go to work 8 hours each day). I persisted in that for several years and I learn a lot during this time. The most important I learned was not to wait for inspiration but to take it. So I still do that, I am daily in my studio and create passionately. I go there and daily take the inspiration I need for my work. So I can enjoy my creative journey. 

Today I live in Austria with my Swedish wife (in between I lived for 15 years in Sweden) and our Chinese daughter, whom we adopted as she was one year old. So we are very much international in our family. 

 


Krassimir Kolev, “The Secrets of the Woods 1”, 2022, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm.


Why did you choose Austria to study art? Is there a special reason?

The year was 1991, just after the fall of the Iron curtain. Suddenly I could see the world. I didn’t want to study art in Bulgaria anymore. I wanted to see the world and learn from the best contemporary artists. I moved to Austria because it was nearest to Bulgaria, but I was planning to go on to the USA. But in Austria, I discovered the art of Joannis Avramidis and I decided to give try to entrance exam at the Academy. Luckily for me, I got accepted. So I stayed in Vienna.



                                     Krassimir Kolev, “The Secrets of the Woods 8”, 2022, oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm.


You had the chance to work with two very important artists, Professor Joannis Avramidis and Professor Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna. How do you remember your experiences with these two special artists? Has it had a significant impact on your art?

This was a very challenging time for me both personally and artistically. In the beginning, I felt like all my dreams are coming through, but soon after that, I got a real cultural crash. Everything was different. But eventually, I started to adapt and began to work on my development as an Artist. Avramidis was an amazing sculptor. I was in love with his way to interpret the Form. Studying with him has given me a lot of knowledge about drawing and shape interpretation. Eventually, because of his age, he got into retirement and we got a new professor. We got the luck to welcome Michelangelo Pistoletto. He was already a legend. He challenged me a lot to think as an artist and the importance of my artistic philosophy. 

 

Krassimir Kolev in his studio.



After taking your MA degree in 1998, you went to Sweden and lived in Uppsala until 2012. I guess you don't like hot weather very much. How did you decide to go this far north? How would you describe your artistic adventure there?

Ha ha ha… I love hot weather, but in 1997 I was almost for three months in Sweden during the summer. There I met my future wife. So it was the love that brought me there. 

I had an interesting artistic journey at this time. I was very interested in interactive art, multimedia, video installation, and so on… I was very curious about everything around digital art. This brought me eventually to the commercial scene and I was suddenly working as an art director and digital creator for multimedia and TV companies. Around 2005 everything become too digital and too commercial for me and I did a transition back to painting and sculpture. I needed to feel the material again, the work with my hands, I needed to smell the paints and get my hands dirty. In the beginning, my sculptures and paintings were abstract, but then I moved to very figurative, almost photorealistic expression. I had several exhibitions at this time both in Scandinavia and internationally. I’ve got even some prizes for my art at this time.

 

I guess just painting doesn't satisfy you. You work with Sculpture and Photography as well. How do these three different branches of art complement each other in your workshop? Or do you treat all of them as different branches of art?

I have always worked with different mediums. For me, they are all the same, and artistic expressions. That’s what is important to me. Sometimes I work on the same project with both paintings and photographs, or paintings and sculptures… But the most important for me - I always draw. Drawing is my artistic breathing.

 

Figure painting seems to have a very special place for you. How would you describe your relationship with the figure? 

I love working with the figure. I always discover so much inspiration there. I am trying to work with a live model every week. I see the human body as a canvas, where the soul paints its own stories. I love to discover and read those stories and interpret them. 


 

Krassimir Kolev, “The Secrets of the Woods 3”, 2022, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm.


I would like to talk about your "The Secrets of the Woods" series, which you have been working on for a while and is currently on sale on the All-in-Line website. First of all, the deep blue that dominates the picture enveloped me. It was as if I wanted to float in this deep, deepest blue… This parliamentary blue took me to a summer evening clad in a desolate, warm, starry, and magical night blue… Can we hear from you how this series was born?

It all began several years ago when I did four years project painting the Gardens of Melk Abbey in Austria. The result was an Exhibition with over 130 paintings, showing my interpretation of the four seasons, in those beautiful Gardens. There I had a very intense relationship with the landscape, and with the trees in particular. This resulted in a strong desire to intensively study the life of trees and the desire to express my emotions and perception of them. For almost two years I have tried to find a way to express this, but it always felt wrong, until now. In the early spring, I started to visit the forest again, just to walk and be there… To breathe and feel. I thought I would make a photography project of the trees, so I took my camera with me and started to photograph. But the more I photographed, the more I felt I should paint. Photography is the Art of the moment, you can freeze a second of time, but painting is the Art of the process… It just takes time. So, now I am daily going to the forest by the river, trying to feel it, to hear it, to smell it, to breathe… It is like the woods are talking in riddles, whispering secrets, poetry I can feel, but can’t understand. Words stroking my ears and heart. I feel saved and loved there. I don’t try to understand, my perception is emotional, not intellectual. I feel like I am in love and the trees are singing for me. I am surrounded by the beauty of pure nature. That’s what I am expressing in these paintings. It is not a depiction of the forest, but an expression of a love story.

 

Is there a reason for this general dark blue color intensity of the paintings? What does it mean for you?

The Blue is the expression of the feeling I have in the forest. When I go into the woods it is like a transition to another world - from the hot sun into the cool world of the forest. It’s like I am protected there, it feels like home, but also like magic.

 



Krassimir Kolev in his studio.


I describe this series as Krassimir Kolev's forest. But watching the trees and getting lost in the forest from Krassimir Kolev's window, which is reminiscent of the deep blue of the ocean, is a different pleasure, a different beauty. To be able to see and feel this virginity, as if no human being had discovered this place before, as natural as if they had never set foot, and as innocent as if it were the first gift of Krassimir Kolev. What do the innocence, calmness, and peaceful feelings in these pictures convey?

I think the viewer has to decide that for himself. What this conveys for me is not important, I think the important is what happens in you as you see those paintings. I think for everyone it is different. That is what I mostly love with art, it speaks to everyone differently, on a personal level.

 

What kind of feeling do you have when you go across the canvas before starting a painting? How would you describe the moment when a new painting begins to emerge?

Oh, I love this feeling! It’s like the beginning of a new journey. I don’t even know how to start. It feels like I’ve never done this before, but in some magical way in the end I am there, on the road and I have the privilege to see it happen, every new artwork is magic. I love it!

 

Finally, what are your plans for this series? Are you considering a solo exhibition?

Yes, I am planning to present this project at Solo Exhibition, but I don’t hesitate I enjoy creating it yet. It is a beautiful journey.

12 Ekim 2022 Çarşamba

Joaquin Sorolla Resimleriyle Renk ve Işık Şöleni

Joaquin Sorolla ya da tam adıyla Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (d.27 Şubat 1863 - ö.10 Ağustos 1923) realist ve empresyonist eserler vermiş bir İspanyol ressam idi. Sorolla, portre resmimanzara ve toplumsal ve tarihi konuların anıtsal eserlerinin resminde mükemmeldi. En tipik eserleri İspanya'nın parlak güneş ışığı ve güneşli Valensiya sahillerini insanları ve manzaraları ustaca resmetmesiyle ünlüdür.


4 Ekim 2022 Salı

Ömer Koç’tan Efsane Bir Sergi: “İsmi Lazım Değil”



Geçen hafta büyük bir keyif ile gezme şansını yakaladığım, büyük çoğunluğu Ömer Koç’un koleksiyonuna ait olan muhteşem eserlerden oluşan “İsmi Lazım Değil” sergisine, Abdülmecid Efendi Köşkü’nün muhteşem bir sahne oluşturuyor. Eserlerin biricikliği, eserlerin yerleşimi, serginin kurgusu ve kavramsal altyapısı beni gerçekten büyüledi. Uzun zamandır gördüğüm bu efsane sergiyi asla unutmayacağım.




Koç Holding Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Ömer M. Koç’un teşvîki ve Koç Holding’in desteğiyle düzenlenen İsmi Lâzım Değil sergisi, Abdülmecid Efendi Köşkü’nde sanatseverlerin beğenisine sunuldu. Küratörlüğünü Brigitte Pitarakis ve Selen Ansen’in üstlendiği sergi, 20 Eylül’den itibaren Pazartesi günleri hariç 11.00 – 19.00 saatleri arasında 11 Aralık 2022’ye kadar açık kalacak.




İsmi Lâzım Değil sergisi, bilinmezin büyüleyiciliğini ve tekinsizliğini odağına alıyor. Bizans’tan günümüze uzanan tarihsel ve kültürel mirastan esinlenerek, biçimlerin, inançların ve temsillerin tarih boyunca nasıl varlığını sürdürdüğünün, göç ettiğinin ve dönüşüm geçirdiğinin izini sürüyor. Sergi, Bizans döneminin doğaüstü ve bilinmez olana ilişkin sembolik dünyasından hareketle, güncel sanatta bilinmez olanın temsilini sorguluyor.




Koç Holding desteğiyle bu sergi için üretilen eserlerin yanı sıra Ömer M. Koç’un koleksiyonuna ait yapıtlar ile Türkiye ve yurt dışındaki kurum, sanatçı ve koleksiyonerlerden ödünç alınan eserler de sergide yer alıyor. Serginin günlük hayatta kullanılan bir deyimden aldığı başlığı İsmi Lâzım Değil, bilinmezin anlaşılmazlığını ve isimlendirilemez boyutunu yansıtmakla beraber, hiçbir şey açıklamıyor, hiçbir şey tanımlamıyor.



Etkileşimli mekânsal deneyim ziyaretçileri bekliyor

Köşkün zemin katında, birinci katında ve bahçesinde, 45’ten fazla sanatçının çeşitli mecralarda ürettiği yaklaşık 100 eser sergileniyor. Bodrum katta ziyaretçileri bekleyen etkileşimli mekânsal deneyim ise onlara Bizans kozmolojisi ve ikonografisine ait kurucu imgeler arasında içine çekilecekleri bir tecrübe sunuyor. İsmi Lâzım Değil başlığı, gösterme ile gizleme, söyleme ile söylememe arasındaki hassas dengeyi korumayı amaçlayan serginin nasıl tasarlandığına dair ipuçları da veriyor.




3 Ekim 2022 Pazartesi

Paris+ Par Art Basel Announces Highlights of Its Inaugural Edition


Collier Schorr, Angel Zinovieff (Felt, Fingers, Socks), 2021, © Collier Schorr, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.


Paris+ par Art Basel will take place at the Grand Palais Éphémère from October 20 to 23, 2022

• Paris+ par Art Basel’s sector for site-specific projects Sites will present over 20 publicly accessible works and interventions in emblematic settings throughout the city

• ‘La Suite de l'Histoire’, an exhibition curated by Annabelle Ténèze, Director of Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, will go on show in the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre and the musée national Eugène-Delacroix as part of Sites

• A site-specific installation by Alicja Kwade – the artist’s largest to date – will be on view on Place Vendôme

• Omer Fast will present his multilayered installation ‘Karla’ in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris

• A dynamic program of Conversations, curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, will take place at the Bal de la Marine, a docked boat next to the Eiffel Tower

Sites is dedicated to artistic projects taking place in the heart of Paris. For its first edition, Sites will take place in iconic settings throughout the city, including the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre, as well as Place Vendôme, musée national Eugène-Delacroix and Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Clément Delépine, Director, Paris+ par Art Basel says: ‘I am truly delighted with the scale and ambition of our inaugural edition of Sites and the vibrant Conversations program. Both sectors are accessible to all, extending our programming throughout the city to a broad audience beyond our fair visitors. While Sites and Conversations take place outside of the fair premises, conceptually they sit at its very center, providing new impulses to contemporary cultural discourse.’


Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Cajsa von Zeipel Double Dose of Zen, 2021, Courtesy the artist and Andréhn-Schiptjenko.



Sites at the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre and at musée national Eugène-Delacroix

Organized in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and curated by Annabelle Ténèze, Director of Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, the exhibition titled ‘La Suite de l'Histoire’, brings together large-scale works in the scenic grounds of the Jardin des Tuileries and a solo project by artist Thaddeus Mosley in the landscaped garden at the musée national Eugène-Delacroix.

The exhibition examines the multi-layered history of the Jardin des Tuileries, including its political and public dimensions, through the work of artists whose practices often subvert and reimagine the role of art in the public realm. Set in a place in which history, architecture and nature converge, the exhibition invites visitors to revisit the gardens in a new way.

Annabelle Ténèze, Paris+ par Art Basel Curator of Sites at the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre and at the musée national Eugène-Delacroix, says: ‘La Suite de l'Histoire’ brings together contemporary creations linked to new artistic practices in the public space. In the Jardin des Tuileries, a place of history, a space of nature in the city and a popular attraction, and in the musée Delacroix, over 20 works emancipate themselves from the tradition of monumental elevation and question the narratives in suspense. The artists, proposing alternative monuments, turning the forms of sculpture upside down or inhabiting the garden in a different way, reveal the possible continuations of history; ‘La Suite de l'Histoire’.

Laurence des Cars, Présidente-Directrice of the Musée du Louvre says: ‘I am thrilled about this inaugural exhibition, which reflects an emboldened presence of contemporary art in the Tuileries, and is embedded in the renewal of our autumnal sculpture project in the gardens. Since the 17th century, the garden has been a place for the public and for creativity. Annabelle Ténèze, whose work at the musée d’art contemporain de Rochechouart and the Abattoirs in Toulouse I have followed closely, has perfectly mastered the technical and curatorial challenges at hand to propose an exhibition that features works by artists from different generations and backgrounds. The Tuileries garden, like the Louvre and the musée Delacroix, is a place filled with life in all its forms. With this exhibition, we will be able to write 'La Suite de l'Histoire' together.’


Esther Schipper, Simon Fujiwara, Liberté for Who?, 2022,
Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin.




Highlights include:

• Danish artist Nina Beier's ‘Guardians’ (2022), an installation of four toppled marble lions laying on the ground and covered with patches of seeds, attracting the garden’s birds. The work is presented by Croy Nielsen and Standard (Oslo).

• An installation by Mexican, New York-based artist Raúl de Nieves, composed of three beaded sculptures and titled ‘Musicians’ (2020) presented by Morán Morán, Company Gallery, and Fitzpatrick Gallery.

• French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle's sculpture ‘Blue Obelisk with Flowers’ (1992) presented by Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois.

• ‘The Green Pavilion’ (2022) by French architect and artist Odile Decq, an homage to the Renaissance greenhouse as a space for protection of rare species and social interaction, presented by Galerie Philippe Gravier.

• German artist Judith Hopf’s ‘Phone User 4 (outdoor)’ (2022), a concrete sculpture of a human-sized figure holding a smartphone, addressing the fraught relationship between people and their mobile devices

• A sculpture by Austrian artist Franz West titled ‘Lemurenköpfe (Lemure Heads)’ (1992/2000), first displayed at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 and presented by David Zwirner.

The applications for Sites at the Jardin des Tuileries were open to all galleries, irrespective of their participation in Paris+ par Art Basel.

The exhibition will continue at the musée national Eugène Delacroix, which will host a presentation of works by African American artist Thaddeus Mosley, marking the sculptor’s first solo museum exhibition in France. Mosley introduces an installation comprising recent sculptures, ranging in size from miniature to monumental. Heavily carved pieces are balanced against one another in multi-part sculptures, which are contrasted by smaller, mask-sized, tabletop sculptures. Mosley's work is presented by Karma.

Sites at Place Vendôme

At Place Vendôme, German-Polish artist Alicja Kwade will present ‘Au cours des Mondes’ (2022), curated by Jérôme Sans. This new installation, her largest to date, is a set of

spheres, a recurring motif for the artist, in dialogue with infinite staircases. A veritable initiatory journey in the public space, the installation questions our relationship to knowledge, the universe, and the mechanisms of power. The work is presented by kamel mennour.


Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Seth Price, I DON’T MISS MY MIND, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.


Sites at Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris

Omer Fast's exhibition ‘Karla’ (2022) will be on view at Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris. It features a holographic projection exploring the eponymous character’s job for a big tech company, as well as ghost-like sculptures and copies of Max Beckmann's self-portrait. Together, these elements respond to the 16th-century sculptures permanently on view in the chapel, exploring the inherently ambiguous nature of concepts such as authenticity, time, and reality. 'Karla' is presented by gb agency.

The Sites sector is supported by David Yurman, a celebrated American jewelry company founded in New York by David Yurman, a sculptor, and his wife, Sybil, a painter and ceramicist – both proud benefactors of the arts.

Evan Yurman, President of David Yurman says: ‘We are pleased to partner with Paris+ par Art Basel in their inaugural year to support their public art project ‘Sites’ in Paris – a city that, like our hometown of New York, is defined by art and artists. We at David Yurman feel connected to the city’s history, its people, its art, and are excited to be a part of this project with Paris+ to help amplify the French capital’s artistic roots.’

For the full list of artists and galleries featured in Sites and further information, visit parisplus.artbasel.com/galleries/sites.

From October 20 to 23, students from the École du Louvre will be available between 3pm and 5.30pm at all four locations of the sector to guide visitors.

Conversations

Curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, and located in the atmospheric Bal de la Marine, a docked boat next to the Tour Eiffel, the Conversations program features 32 speakers across nine panels, bringing together leading artists, gallerists, collectors, curators, museum directors, and critics. Topics range from what erotic counter-readings of art history the queer art scene can offer to a discussion on how Pan-Africanism as an aspiring poetic and decolonial movement is being revitalized by a new generation of DJs, fashion designers and artists.

Further Conversations highlights include: • 'What’s Next for the French Art Market?' with gallerists Mariane Ibrahim, Thaddaeus Ropac, and High Art’s Romain Chenais. Moderated by Farah Nayeri, Culture Writer at The New York Times

• 'Artists' Influencers' with artist Hervé Télémaque, author Françoise Vergès, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries

• ‘Sex and Art along the Seine’: with artist Tarek Lakhrissi, author Bruce Benderson, and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Director, Departement culture et creation, Centre Pompidou. Moderated by independent curator Juliette Desorgues • 'Dandyism in the 21st Century?' with artist and gallerist Emily Sundblad, playwright, producer, writer and actor Jeremy O. Harris, film and theatre director Ulrike Ottinger. Moderated by Luca Lo Pinto, artistic Director MACRO, Rome.

Running from October 20 to 22, Conversations is free to the public and will be livestreamed on Art Basel's Facebook channel. The program will be held in English and French with simultaneous translation. For further information please visit parisplus.artbasel.com/conversations.

Galeries Émergentes Dedicated to emerging galleries across the globe, Galeries Émergentes will feature 16 solo presentations. Exhibitors include Antenna Space from Shanghai, Instituto de Visión from Bogotá and New York, LC Queisser from Tibilisi, Marfa' from Beirut, Parliament from Paris, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski from Warsaw, sans titre (2016) from Paris, and Veda from Florence. Supported by groupe Galeries Lafayette, one artist from Galeries Émergentes will be chosen by a specially appointed jury to exhibit at Lafayette Anticipations the following year. The Lafayette Prize rewards the artist as well as the gallery who will be reimbursed its participation fee. For the full list of exhibitors in Galeries Émergentes, please visit parisplus.artbasel.com/galeries-emergentes.

About Art Basel Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and contemporary art, sited in Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong and Paris. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. Art Basel’s engagement has expanded beyond art fairs through new digital platforms and a number of new initiatives such as the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, Intersections: The Art Basel Podcast and the BMW Art Journey. Art Basel's Global Media Partner is The Financial Times. For further information, please visit artbasel.com.

About Annabelle Ténèze

Annabelle Ténèze (1979) is Chief Curator of Heritage and Director of Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse since 2016. She was first curator in charge of the graphic arts cabinet at the Musée national Picasso-Paris (2006 to 2012). She then became director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Haute-Vienne - Château de Rochechouart from 2012 to 2016. There she organized many monographic exhibitions (Jules de Balincourt, Eduardo Basualdo, Raoul Hausmann, Kent Monkman, Laure Prouvost, Carolee Schneemann, etc.). In les Abattoirs, she has organized, among other, exhibitions that combine both contemporary art and history, such as Medellín. A Columbian History, Picasso and Exile. An History of Spanish Art in Resistance, Revue noire. A History of African Contemporary Arts or La Déconniatrie. Art, exile and Psychiatry around Francois Tosquelles. This fall she will curate ‘Niki de Saint Phalle. The 1980s and the 1990s. Art Running Free’ at Les Abattoirs. Ténèze has edited and published on artists emerging in the 60s in several catalogs such as Marion Baruch, Jacqueline de Jong, Roy Lichtenstein, ORLAN, Peter Saul, Daniel Spoerri, and Tom Wesselmann.

About Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou

Pierre-Alexandre Mateos (1989) and Charles Teyssou (1988) are a duo of curators and writers based in Paris. In addition to curating the Conversations sector of the inaugural edition of Paris+ par Art Basel, they are currently working on Paris Orbital, a live program at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection and the ongoing archives Arles Terminal City, LUMA Foundation, Arles. They recently co-curated with Kevin Blinderman an exhibition dedicated to the dandy figure of Jacques de Bascher at the Kunsthalle Bern and Treize, Paris. They were the editors-in-chief of L’Officiel Art and contribute to Mousse Magazine, Spike, and Double Magazine.

Selection Committee of Paris+ par Art Basel

Florence Bonnefous, Air de Paris, Paris

Ellen de Bruijne, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam

Daniel Buchholz, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Berlin, New York

Anton Kern, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

Niklas Svennung, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Georges-Philippe Vallois, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

Christophe Van de Weghe, Van de Weghe, New York

The experts for the Galerie Émergentes sector:

Isabelle Alfonsi, Marcelle Alix, Paris

Mark Dickenson, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt

Simone Subal, Simone Subal Gallery, New York

Partners

Paris+ par Art Basel’s Associate Partners are Louis Vuitton and Tezos, with Audemars Piguet as Show Partner. Paris+ par Art Basel is also supported by David Yurman as Official Partner of Sites, groupe Galeries Lafayette as Official Partner of the Galeries Émergentes sector, BMW as Official Automotive Partner and Vitra as Official Furniture Partner.

The Show's Host Partners are Sanlorenzo, Lalique and Guerlain with Maison Ruinart as Official Provider. For more information, please visit artbasel.com/partners.

Paris+ Media Partners include Art Basel's Global Media Partner The Financial Times, Beaux Arts Magazine, Connaissance des Arts, Le Journal des Arts, Le Quotidien de l'Art, Numéro art, L’OEil and The Art Newspaper.

Serhat Akavcı, Fotoğraf Tekniğiyle Nereye Koşuyor?

Serhat Akavcı, LP035, 2022, foto heykel, deri üstüne dijital, baskı, 37x37x20 cm.



Labirent Sanat, 13 Ekim- 19 Kasım 2022 tarihleri arasında Serhat Akavcı’nın son dönem işlerinin yer aldığı “Loop” isimli kişisel sergisini sunuyor. C. G. Jung “Ruh, İnsan, Sanat, Edebiyat” kitabında modern tıbbın kurucusu Paracelsus’un öğretisine yer verir. “Paracelsus, Limbus bir dairedir, canlı dünya büyük bir dairedir, insan ‘Limbus minör’ yani küçük dairedir. Mikrokozmozdur. Dolayısıyla dışarıda olan her şey içerde, yukarıda olan her şey aşağıdadır” demektedir. İnsan bu sonsuz ve parçası olduğu evren içinde deneyimleri ile şekillenir. Doğduğu aile, coğrafya, toplumsal ve sosyo-kültürel yapı, ilişki halinde olduğu her şey ve genetik miras kişinin ‘ben’ini şekillendirir. Bununla beraber ‘ben’ de çevresini biçimlendirir. Kosmosda her şey birbiriyle ilişkilenme kapasitesiyle kuşatılmıştır. Her varlık birbirini deneyimlemeye açıktır.

Loop sergisi, açıklık içinde varoluşunu sürdüren bireyin, hayatının belli bir döneminde yaşadığı travmatik olguların yıkıcı etkisiyle mücadelesine ve bu olguların döngüsel yapısına odaklanmaktadır. Farkındalık şifalanma süreci için yeterli mi? Bu döngüyü kırmak mümkün mü? Bedensel çıplaklığı aşmak mı, zihinsel çıplaklığa ulaşmak mı, daha zor? Bizi kişisel deneyimlerimizi, sırlarımızı paylaşmaya iten motivasyon nedir? Kişi hangi koşul ve şartlarda merkeziliğinden çıkar? Kişisel deneyimin başka birine aktarımındaki sınırlar nelerdir? gibi sorular Serhat Akavcı’nın üretim sürecini şekillendirmektedir.


Serhat Akavcı, LP019, 2022, fotoğraf tabanlı dijital manipülasyon, arşivsel pigment baskı, 70x47 cm.


Tıpkı bedensel rahatsızlıklarımızın habercisi ağrı, ateş, vb. semptomlar gibi kronik mutsuzluğu, huzursuzluğu erteleyip, baskılamak, görmezden gelmek çoğu zaman kaçınılmaz olan daha büyük sıkıntıları temellendirir. Jung’un “…İnsan kendi gölgesiyle yüzleşip hesaplaşmayı öğrenirse dünya için gerçek bir şey yapmış olur, günümüzün devasa, çözülmemiş toplumsal sorunlarının küçük bir parçasını sırtlanmış olur” saptamasında aslında ilişkisel varlık olan insanın, bireysel açmazlarının, tüm çevresine hatta gelecek nesillere aktarabildiğini düşününce, travma ile baş edebilmenin ve döngüyü kırmanın önemini hissettirir.   

“Loop” sergisinin hazırlık sürecinde projeye dahil olan katılımcıların/modellerin kişisel öykülerini, deneyimlerini, hayattaki dönüm noktalarını aktarımıyla oluşan birikimin, beden dili üzerinden anlatımında ifade bulan Akavcı’nın işlerini 19 Kasım tarihine kadar Labirent Sanat’ta görebilirsiniz.

 

Labirent Sanat

Çatma Mescit Mah. Tepebaşı Cad. No: 56 K: 2 34430, Beyoğlu / İstanbul

Ziyaret saatleri: Salı - Cumartesi: 11.00 - 19.00

Detaylı bilgi ve daha fazla görsel için: info@labirentsanat.com | +90 531 712 45 25

 

Serhat Akavcı, LP032, 2022, fotoğraf tabanlı dijital manipülasyon, arşivsel pigment baskı, 57x46 cm.


SERHAT AKAVCI - “LOOP”

Labirent Sanat presents the solo exhibition titled “Loop” featuring Serhat Akavcı's latest works between 13 October-19 November 2022.

C. G. Jung, in his book “Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”, includes the doctrine of Paracelsus, the founder of modern medicine. Paracelsus, “Limbus is a circle. The animate world is the larger circle, man is the ‘Limbus minor,’ the smaller circle. He is the microcosm. Consequently, everything without is within, everything above is below” says. Man is shaped by his experiences in this infinite universe of which he is a part. The family, geography, social and socio-cultural structure, everything he is in contact with, and genetic heritage shape the 'I'. However, the 'I' also shapes its environment. Everything in the cosmos has the capacity to be interrelated. Every being is open to experiencing each other.

Loop exhibition focuses on the individual's struggle with the destructive effects of the individual or social traumatic events he has experienced in a certain period of his life, and the cyclical nature of this phenomena. Is awareness sufficient for the healing process? Is it possible to break this cycle? Is it more difficult to overcome bodily nakedness or to attain mental nakedness? What motivates us to share our personal experiences and secrets? In what conditions does the person become decentralized? What are the limits to the transfer of personal experience to someone else? These questions shape the production process of Serhat Akavcı.

Serhat Akavcı, LP040, 2022, foto heykel, deri üstüne dijital baskı, 27x21x19 cm.


Just like pain and fever, which are the precursors of our bodily ailments, delaying and suppressing chronic unhappiness and uneasiness, often grounds the inevitable bigger problems. Considering that the individual dilemmas of the human being, who is essentially a relational being, can be transferred to his entire environment and even to future generations, in Jung's determination that “...if a person learns to face his own shadow and come to terms with it, he will have done something real for the world, shouldering a small part of today's huge, unresolved social problems” makes us feel the importance of dealing with our dark side and breaking the cycle.

You can see the works of Akavcı which are expressed in the body language of the accumulation created by the personal stories, experiences, and life-turning points of the participants/models involved in the project during the preparation process of the “Loop” exhibition, at Labirent Sanat until 19 November.

Labirent Sanat

Çatma Mescit Mah. Tepebaşı Cad. No: 56 K: 2 34430, Beyoğlu / İstanbul

Visiting hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11.00 - 19.00

For more information and images: info@labirentsanat.com | +90 531 712 45 25