Polat Piyalepaşa, which hosts the pioneering platforms of art; welcomes spring with different exhibitions. Istanbul’s new art destination; MERKUR “Respect for Existence”, Martch Art Project, Sinem Dişli’s “Deep Time: Aspects of Matter”, HAN Polat Piyalepaşa “Another Saying” is ready for the discovery of the art audience. In addition, .artSümer Ekin Saçlıoğlu’s “Partlı”, Pi Artworks “Chased by Unicorns”, and Zilberman Selected will present unique works to art lovers with Vizyon, Mission Values solo exhibitions curated by T. Melis Golar.
Istanbul’s new art and gastronomy meeting point, Polat Piyalepaşa, opens its doors to art lovers with brand new exhibitions special for spring.
In Polat Piyalepaşa;
Respect Existence Exhibition Opened at MERKUR
“Respect for Existence” exhibition in Polat Piyalepaşa meets art lovers at MERKUR as of March 14. Contemporary works created by 10 artists from different mediums will be on display until April 1 at the exhibition. Burcu Perçin is the curator of the “Respect for Existence” exhibition, which features works by Alper Aydın, Ahmet Duru, Burcu Perçin, Evren Sungur, İrem Tok, Serkan Demir, Sibel Horada, Sinem Dişli, Yusuf Sevinçli and Yüksel Arslan. A portion of the income from the sales of the works during the exhibition will be used for earthquake zones to support those affected by the earthquake.
Zilberman Selected Vision, Mission, Values Solo Exhibition Will Continue for 2 Months
Zilberman Selected’s personal exhibition Vision, Mission, Values, curated by T. Melis Golar, will meet art lovers in Piyalepaşa between March 15 – May 13, 2023. Bringing together the works of Sena Başöz, Guy Ben-Ner, Burak Delier, Memed Erdener, Neriman Polat and Pilvi Takala, the exhibition examines the effects of economic crises on corporate life, consumption habits, home economy and stress management.
The Vision, Mission, Values exhibition brings to the fore the individual who questions the ways of living and producing in today’s economic and psychological conditions, on the one hand, and the society trying to adapt to new conditions on a larger scale, generating new forms of motivation, seeking creative solutions and producing new inventions. The works in the exhibition will identify today’s conditions and examine the methods of escaping and coping from the inside.
51 Artworks by 35 Artists at HAN Piyalepaşa Exhibitions – 6: “Another Saying”
In Han Piyalepaşa, Ali Şahin, Atilla Galip Pınar, Ayşegül Karakaş, Basako, Baysan Yüksel, Beyza Boynudelik, Belmin Pilevneli, Çağla Mısırlı, Genus, Deniz Kozakiewicz, Diana Page, Dilek YücelDuygu Aydoğan, Ece Beylikçi, Eliz Gündüz, Egemen Tuncer, Engin Konuklu, Erin İlkcan Aslan, Ferahnaz Apdic, Feza Güvenal, Gamze Yalçın, Lütfullah Genç, Melih Çebi, Merve Zeybek, Mr. 51 works by 31 artists such as Hure, Murys, Nagihan Aydınlık, Nilüfer Topal, Rıdvan Aşar, Sébastien Shahmiri, Selma Koç, Sinem Kaya, Studio Pinprick, Şeniz Polat, Yiğit Yazıcı will meet with visitors. There will also be artist talks within the scope of the exhibition opening, which will take place on Wednesday, March 22.
18.00-18.30 “Street Art in Turkey” with Hure
18.30-19.00 “Transformation of Images from Personal Memory to Art Objects” with Lütfullah Genç
19.00-19.30 “On the Formation Process of Artifacts” with Selma Koç
Pi Artworks : “How would you define happiness?”
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori’s immersive performance Pursuit of a Happy Person presents technology, philosophy, sound and visual arts together. The artist draws attention to the structures that shape our daily lives through his poems and how our emotional experiences are shaped by consumer capitalism.
Ekin Saçlıoğlu with her First Solo Exhibition Partially at .artSümer between 18 March – 6 May
Literally; The word “part”, which represents each of the things that separate from, remain, or form the whole when combined, allows different readings in Ekin Saçlıoğlu’s works in her new exhibition. The word finds its counterpart in the studies, representing the difficulty of the individual in positioning himself in the whole in the rapidly flowing time. It can refer to the things that split as a result of the dominant power of the triggers, to the colorful but equally uncanny-looking structures.
Dualities such as animate-inanimate, real-fiction, object-subject, nature-human, organic-inorganic, which are frequently seen in Saçlıoğlu’s works, come to the fore once again with the artist’s inner experience during the pandemic period and the articulation of the house phenomenon. Familiar but amorphous structures gain a new perspective in paintings and sculptures where different materials come together to create hybrid textures. The colored pulp forms intertwined with the geometric elements and used furniture in the paintings symbolically represent the artist himself and his family.
In addition to the artist’s non-anthropocentric perspective, which stands out in These Are Not Fables Children (2017), Remains of the Earth and New Flowers (2018) exhibitions, different materials in the Acayip Yapı (2018) series, which include sculptures and large-size patterns, come together to create a structure. The idea that these structures are disassembled and turned into sediments, and that the remaining parts come together again in time to form new wholes, both familiar and different, constitutes the development stages of the works in Parcel.
Ekin Saçlıoğlu, who produces with a rich variety of materials in different disciplines such as painting, sculpture, design, installation, focuses on a wide variety of dualities, inversions, memory and memories, dreams, stories, animals and plants, and the relationships between different species and worlds, It continues to live through the new hybrid forms and thoughts that come together in Partial.