Walking through Art – week 13 2015 (part 1)

A couple of days every month I go on a walk through art galleries. Still working on routes but until then here is this week’s updates:

Stops:
Galeri Zilberman: Guido Casaretto “Synesthesia”
Blok Art Space: Göksu Gül “Free of Charge”
PG Art Gallery: Weltschmerz
Daire Gallery: Multiple Choice
Galeri Od'A-Ouvroir d'Art: "Türkiye’den Yeni Nesil, Genç Çağdaş Sanatçılar"
Pera Müzesi: Alberto Giacometti
Adasanat: “Deve”
Sismanoglio Megaro: Kostantinos Kerestetzis

·         * The details on the last three stops will be on the next post.


This tour actually took two days. It actually could have taken just a day.




First stop was at Galeri Zilberman: Guido Casaretto. 

I knew Guido from the time they started the foundations of Sanatorium, so I guess for about over seven years. We met when we were preparing for the opening of Sanatorium. One of the most talented and great artists I have known.
Guido is an Italian artists born in 1981. He lives and works in Istanbul. In his creations he uses wood constructions to represent human anatomy with outstanding compositions. Using CGI he works on minimalized mediums to represent supernatural visualizations.
The exhibition was great as usual. There was even a surprise; one of the artwork was placed behind the desk at the entrance. So you got to see it if you’re too careful.

In this exhibition:

“Galeri Zilberman is proud to announce Guido Casaretto’s new solo exhibition Synesthesia. The exhibition can be visited at Galeri Zilberman on the third floor of Mısır Apartment, between March 14th and May 2nd, 2015. 

 


Synesthesia, a phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway, is named after a term meaning “united sensation” in Ancient Greek. Dealing with the types of perception of nature and reproducing it with digital means, Casaretto focuses on the phenomenon of sensation with his new exhibition that is comprised of his most recent works. Engaged with electronic information, various materials and art-historical references, the exhibition overlaps the different sensations with regard to the physical quality of the material and the types of perception within the concept of art history.
The recent works of Guido Casaretto create their alternative nature through the intense relationship they establish with each other and invite the viewer to discover it. The interaction triggered by the physical approach goes deep down into the multidimensional sensation through the materials used by the artist such as concrete, skin, soil and epoxy. A delicate deer, one of the significant topics of a classical painting, transforms into a solid concrete with the use of constructive iron while a skin of an another animal turns into a canvas on which a robust male figure is depicted with the classical painting technique 

Chiaroscuro (*). Casaretto reinterprets the subject-object relation by getting to the bottom of form and content matter with today’s references.
A stage where three-dimensional modelling has reached so far is also included in the exhibition with the template of “David”. Effigies modelled from this template and hand-painted by the artist reach a unique form of reality with the use of three-dimensional patterns. Creating an interlayer through the painting composed by the activity of hand painting with utmost meticulousness, the artist determines the nature of the relationship between the viewer and the object. The former works of Casaretto, comprised of realistic manifestation of nature created in digital environment, are reversed by these new series of works through the manual intervention of the artist to the machine production. The works define the uniqueness of the handmade and invite the viewers to experience the sensation.”

The second stop is Blok Art Space: Güksu Gül.

Göksu Gül is a real talented young artist. Her work requires at most the best of patience. She works generally with ink on paper and canvas. With the smallest details – lines, dots and curves- she patiently creates the greatest works. Her art has different meanings and represents different feeling from each of the steps you take to see the art. She also took part in Galeri Od'A-Ouvroir d'Art: "Türkiye’den Yeni Nesil, Genç Çağdaş Sanatçılar" this week. Talented, hardworking and also the sweetest person.

“Exhibition: March 13th - April 25th, 2015

Göksu Gül was born in Ankara in 1984. Since graduating from Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty’ Painting Department in 2006, Göksu has been working as a cartoonist for various magazines. The artist has been showing her works, in which she combines her talent in drawing with her curiosity towards nature, at group exhibitions. Following the initial processes of exploring and analysing nature, Göksu’s recent drawings focus on the transformation and development processes of live forms. While these processes were further investigated through her sculptures that employ different materials, her latest large canvas works portray rather macro depictions of nature. The artist shares her admiration for existence as she presents the viewer with a “free of charge” esthetics through forms. Showing her first ever solo exhibition that will take place at BLOK art space, Göksü Gül currently lives and works in İstanbul.



“We keep complaining that art is underappreciated in our country… We correlate this fact with economic backgrounds, and we worsen the situation by making “high art” even more inaccessible… Yet, all one needs to do in order to see this exhibition is to take a single public bus ride. Like a view of the mountains, I am offering a beautiful scene free of charge.”
Göksu Gül”

The third stop: PG Art Gallery: Weltschmerz

“Pg Art Gallery is pleased to present “Weltschmerz”, a collective exhibition that encompasses the works of Candaş Şişman, Çınar Eslek, Devran Mursaloğlu, Jak Baruh, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar and Yonca Karakaş. Weltschmerz will be on view from March 5, through March 29, 2015.


Weltschmerz*, is a phenomenon that refers to the alienation, depression and suffering an individual experiences when witnessed the physical and social brutality around the world. 

Romantic Era is frequently represented by idealization of the World and the reference to the fluctuation of the emotions when confronted by this ideal. This show emphasizes a sort of similarity between this perspective of the Romantic Period and the perception of reality of contemporary artists. 

There is a clear relationship between the forms and methods that contemporary art employs to continually disconcert the concept of reality and the desire to renounce or transform the perceived world. The social changes that are experienced both in global and local levels cause a constant anxiety, mechanization and numbness in human behaviour but at the same time they also lead to the renunciation of the reality. This renunciation of art sometimes aims for an utterly harsh mechanism of criticism or resort to a twisted perception, which can be described almost as schizophrenic.



When faced with the situation that the desired world is always resides in the future and the present one is not compatible with one’s own universe the impulsive action that the artists take is not to represent the world as it is but to transfigure it, deconstruct it or reproduce it. Our inability to reconcile with the world per se lead us either to self-destruction or to a path which pushes us to create new ways to transform and improve it. At this point, whatever method he or she chooses, being an artist itself present us new modes of living and so cracks our numb outer cover and creates some sensation. Unlike the everyday contact, this special type of communication we develop through art shows us the similarities of the anxieties we experience and enables us to conceptualize them and eventually to talk about them.



*Weltschmerz, invented by German writer Jean Paul, is essentially an untranslatable concept that roughly means a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness. The term that is usually associated with the melancholic and pessimistic works of Romantic poets and writers, and is used to describe the existential pain and meaninglessness that originates from the incompetency of the mind’s desires in the face of the reality’s destructive nature.”

The fourth stop: Daire Gallery: Multiple Choice

This gallery was not in my plans but it was right beside PG Art Gallery so I ended up going to it. With collections from many artists it shares the idea of ‘education’. How and what it represents in our country. Maybe not so boldly but you get the picture. I guess I don’t have a lot to say about this exhibition for there was too much scatter, differences and even, though it all looked like a part of something, the arrangement was off the hook.

Take a look yourself:

The fifth stop: Galeri Od'A-Ouvroir d'Art: "Türkiye’den Yeni Nesil, Genç Çağdaş Sanatçılar"

Artistes:

Ayşegül Turan
Beril Gür
Burcu Yağcıoğlu
Eda Emirdağ
Eda Gecikmez
Gamze Taşdan
Gökçen Dilek Acay
Göksu Gül
Gülsün Öykü Doğan
İrfan Dönmez
Kubilay Mert Ural
Meliha Sözeri
Merve Denizci
Naciye Danış Akbıyıkoğulları
Neslihan Koyuncu
Özge Topçu
Serhat Koçak
Serpil Tuğçe Aytürk
Tuğba Yüksel

This exhibition took place at: Sainte Pulchérie French High School.

İt was a collaboration of 19 artists’ ages between 25-35. These young artists invite us to their worlds and aids us while we walk the path of their great imaginations. Using perspective they represent their own cultural differences, life understandings, feeling and even death with the help of different mediums such as installations, paintings, sculptures and drawings.

All the works are exquisite. An exhibition that must be seen...