Tufan Baltalar’s new solo exhibition called Flow can be seen between 5 November and 14 December at Pilot Gallery. The exhibition includes nearly hundred new ceramic art pieces and it is the artists mist detail exhibition.
Through his interdisciplinary practice, Tufan Baltalar has built a world, and his current ceramic works continue this development, blending dreamlike elements with a realistic sensitivity. His works are a reflection about human and nature relationship. He works on the connections between the issues he addresses while also expressing his experiences.
He uses traditional techniques and modern landscape representations while working on his glazed ceramic works like busts, plates and bowls. He explores traditional ceramic forms on his works like transcending their two-dimensional form on the plates, the figures take on a three-dimensional presence, while the ceramic surface itself transforms from a mere canvas into a sculptural element or pedestal. Distant plant figures declare their independence from the plate and rather than simply enveloping the busts, the plants merge with the figures, creating a sense of unity between them.
Baltalar’s works humanity representation is a reference for personal experience about how people are caught between urban life and nature rather than an autobiography. In his ceramic sculptures, human figures are surrounded by plants, symbolizing surrender rather than struggle. Their calm and different expressions suggest a return to nature after conflict.
Opening on November 5 at Pilot Gallery, Tufan Baltalar’s solo exhibition ‘Flow’ displays his ceramic works, organic imperfections, repetitive techniques, and traditional forms coming together. These pieces aim to express the relationship between humanity and nature poetically. The exhibition explores how individual lives can become lost in the larger flow of life’s chaos.
Tufan Baltalar says “We chart a path from being a part of nature to being nature itself,”
