İMALAT-HANE starts the new season with an exhibition titled 10: Abstractions, Intimations, Ruminations. The exhibition, curated by Duygu Demir is a joint show looking through the 10 years of the creative process of artists Ahmet Doğu İpek, biriken, Burak Kabadayı, Cevdet Erek, Deniz Aktaş, Hakan Topal, Hale Tenger, Hasan Özgür Top, Huo Rf, İnci Furni and Özlem Günyol – Mustafa Kunt duo.
The exhibition’s focus is the decade 2013-2023, a period of defining social, political and ideological seismic movements, both within Turkey and around the world, which is a rather usual but entirely unusual period of artistic examination. “0: Abstractions, Intimations, Ruminations ” brings together the work of artists who chose to look into the changes and transformations we witnessed in the process from within the domain of art. The exhibition’s claim is neither comprehensive nor completely historical. The modest explanation of this proposal for unity is to be able to look critically at the ends, slides and deviations, small or large but violent changes that cannot be corrected but which have been caused from the edge of aesthetics.
The title suggests Abstraction, Intimation and Ruminations are methods or strategies that the artists in the exhibition do, sometimes single, sometimes intrinsically applied. These methods also refer to the vocabulary of art, which has evolved over the past decade, and to new or other forms of expression. Here, abstraction becomes a survival tactic, an invisibility of a clever appearance, not as a reduction or an ineffectiveness of the worldly as we know of the art of the 20th century, whereas, as is often the case, it is the task of both the artists and the curator as a thin, but trace-leaving curve.
In brief, we see what has happened within ten years and how artists perceived these incidents from their point of view.
The exhibition continues until Dec 2.
