Exhibitions of September 2011

Ekav Art Gallery
Ekav Art Gallery opens its doors for the new season with young contemporary artist Ardan Ozmenoglu's exhibition entitled “I'm not a Biennial Artist”, which will take place between September 12 th -October 8th , 2011. The exhibition will be open simultaneously with the 12th Istanbul Biennial, which will take place between September 17th-November 13th. The artist interprets the objects and the icons, that are part of the Anatolian traditional daily life and popular culture, and presents them to the audience on a gallery platform in sort of an irony with their own nature. Ozmenoglu transforms iconic images such as; a prominent popular culture figure Seda Sayan's portrait, doner kebap (one of  Turkey's foremost iconic foods), a most-used public transportation vehicle blue mini-buses and oil wrestling, (our ancestor's sports practiced for centuries), are printed in the artist's main material post-it™ notes and installations made with the same material.

Adress: Süzer Plaza No: 15 The Ritz- Carlton Hotel Gümüşsuyu Istanbul
Tel: 212 252 81 31

Dirimart    
Active in the international art world since 2002, the art space Dirimart will be hosting the world-renowned American artist Sarah Morris’ first solo exhibition in Turkey from September 16 to October 22, 2011. Besides a selection of paintings from Morris’s latest series ‘Origami’, ‘Clips and Knots’, ‘John Hancock’, and ‘Rings’ the 2011 film Chicago (68’) will also be shown. Sarah Morris’ well-deserved ubiqituous fame is based on the geometric abstractions of both her paintings and films, playing with architecture, design and the psychology of urban environments. Parallel to her paintings, Morris’ films also trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. In both media, she explores the psychology of the contemporary city and its architecturally encoded politics. Morris assesses what today’s urban structures, bureaucracies, cities and nations might conceal and surveys how a particular moment can be inscribed and embedded into its visual surfaces.

Adress:  Abdi İpekçi Caddesi No:7/4 Nişantaşı 34367 İstanbul
Tel: 212 291 3434

PG Art Gallery
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar is at PG Art Gallery with his third solo show, Stasis. The exhibition consists of photographs that the artist creates, using plastic models. The artist, who previously combined tri-dimensional computer modeling and photography, considers the relationship between photography and the act of "doing" through the production of object, movement and image. The photographs that depict several vehicles produced throughout the 20th century, which extend the idea of photography as a record of the past, to be a pictorial language that marks the present without any reference to a specific time and space. The exhibition can be seen between 7th of September and 20th of October.

Another exhibition taking place in PG Art Gallery is ‘Uncanny Games’ between September 13 and October 28, 2011. Curated by Öznür Güzel Karasu, the exhibition brings together 22 artists from various disciplines, exploring different meanings of the concept of “game” through their works and delving into the processes of play that we encounter in every aspect of life. The various games we play essentially highlight the state of uncanniness in which we live. These include the games we play while dealing with our roles in the social order, the games we are exposed to in such an enormous system, our fictional games, the games of our childhood: cheerful games, games of partiality, cultural games, and games of perception. In the exhibition, art also becomes a tool for seeking a way out of the social machinery we are all born into, but the end of which is unclear. During these intellectual journeys sparked by instinct, we encounter equations related to the mind’s explorations. Artists featured in the exhibition are; Özgül Arslan, Sena Başöz, Burak Bedenlier, Itır Demir, Eda Gecikmez, Nurcan Gündoğan, Reysi Kamhi, Devabil Kara, Hacer Kıroğlu, Komet, Devran Mursaloğlu, Günnur Özsoy, Neriman Polat, anti-pop, Gonca Sezer, Ayşegül Süter, Jerome Symons, Candaş Şişman, Kemal Tufan, Sevil Tunaboylu, Ayla Turan, İlke Yılmaz.

Adress: Boğazkesen Cad. No.76/B Tophane-Beyoğlu
Tel: 212 252 80 00

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