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12/9/2013

Two exhibitions

Rezan Has Museum, Istanbul

Joyful Wisdom
September 14–October 20, 2013

curated by Henk Slager

Parallel event to the 13th Istanbul Biennial

Artists: Aglaia Konrad, Burak Delier, Jalal Toufic, Jan Kaila, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Marion von Osten, Mick Wilson, Tiong Ang & Co.

How to avoid institutional routine and academic rigor is a question emerging time and again in current discussions on the topic of artistic research. Therefore, the project Joyful Wisdom intends to address the original spirit of the field; that is, artistic research as a radical, experimental playground. From that perspective, the project presents artistic research as a topical interpretation of Nietzsche's reflections on Joyful Wisdom (Gaya Scienza): an untimely plea for a different form of thinking detaching knowledge from the leveling tendency of classification and reinvolving speculative and symbolic forms of understanding. Pending questions, then, are: How can artistic research as a situation-based thinking process escape from the disciplining logic of knowledge production? Should the strategic form of an epistemic guerrilla be deployed?

Taking this as a starting point, Burak Delier's project Art Talks defeats the force of institutional frameworks by staging the artist-as-researcher as a street vendor: an artist aware of the current condition of existence who offers his specific contribution to knowledge production in the public space of the city of Istanbul.

Pavilion of Distance II (Cross Roads and Hazy Maze), Tiong Ang's collective production, is a confrontation of two film projects where artistic thinking processes dissolve into public space: a rhythmic montage of a modernistic, impersonal suburban scenery versus the narration of a temporary formation of a group of young artists within an urban setting. A singular, performative event will juxtapose the moving, pre-recorded images with their real-life counterpoint. (Cast: Sebastian Gonzalez de Gortari, Eduarda Estrella, Adriana Ramirez, Robert Wittendorp, Hiroomi Horiuchi, Frans van Lent, Heleen Langkamp, Sobia Zaidi. Crew: Ryan de Haan, Marina Stavrou, Zeynep Kayan, Efrat Gal. Director of Photography and Editor: Alejandro Ramirez).

Mick Wilson's video-text work The Seminar rehearses a process of artistic enquiry in a laconic and downbeat manner that moves across themes of mortality and public-ness to reveal a tragi-comic incompletion. Woven through the text are anecdotes and philosophical references but the overall effect is of a workaday failure to achieve seriousness because of a disconnect between intentions and actions.

Point of departure for Marion von Osten's research project The Route of Friendship is the illusion of a globalized modernism. The project focuses on the utopian, visual imagery of a public sculpture project at the time of the 1968 Mexico Olympics. The Route of Friendship shows a cosmopolitan imagination that seems to continuously provoke protests in the public domain because of its inherent contradictions.

Sleep, a project by Jan Kaila, also departs from public space. In a series of images, Sleep shows citizens embodying in an almost sculptural sense the silent knowledge of the urban interior. Through an ontological investigation emphasizing the presence of absence and a post-medial translation into moving images, the work demonstrates a novel artistic and intellectual perspective on what seem already to be established facts.

In researching spatio-economic conditions, Aglaia Konrad's Iconocity deals with the physical quality of photographic reality in the form of a wall-size collage charting a worldwide series of urban landscapes through a fluid taxonomy of affective associations and artistic probing. At the same time, the outcome becomes spatially integrated in the exhibition context.

Jalal Toufic's mixed media Vertiginous Variations on Guilt and Innocence Witnessed in 39 Steps through the Rear Window consists of the video Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps and two conceptual film posters titled Rear Window Vertigo. "Hitchcock's Rear Window and Vertigo may best be viewed as one film, and his The 39 Steps may best be viewed as an entangled trilogy."

Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan's film project Episode of the Sea has a strong materialistic approach. By deploying an undisciplined research perspective and a drifting studio practice, the impact of a continuous flexibility forced on primary professions by the world market is articulated and a presentation evolves negotiating between the act of making and the process of making.

Joyful Wisdom is made possible by the support of Netherlands Consulate General Istanbul, Embassy of Finland Ankara, ifa (Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Germany), Kunsten en Erfgoed (Belgium) and MaHKU/Utrecht School of the Arts.

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Drew Tal "Facing East"

14 September 2013 - 31 October 2013
Exhibition Hall A

Drew Tal: "My art is a personal investigation across cultural bounds into the underlying human themes and common spiritual threads found in religious, mythological and sexual expression”.
Rezan Has Museum hosts Drew Tal who is known for his works, some of which have already been included in the permanent collections of the Norton Museum of Art and New Britain Museum of American Art. The works showcased in the exhibition, in which the underlying theme is ethnicity, are grouped under four titles: “Facing East”, “Light from Within”, “Infallible Symmetry” and “Veiled, Unveiled”

The Exhibition “Facing East” featuring and bringing photographic artist Drew Tal’s works which are described as having a more edgy, confrontational and provocative nature by the artist himself to art lovers will be on view between 14th September and 31st October 2013 at the Rezan Has Museum.

For Detailed Information: Deniz Ülkümen Çığrı / C-Line İletişim
Phone: 0212 243 11 53 Cellular Phone: 0536 364 57 36 e-mail: deniz.ulkumen@c-line.com.tr

Opening: September 13, 7pm
Performance: Tiong Ang & Co: September 13, 7:30pm

Rezan Has Museum
Kadir Has Universitesi Cibali - Istanbul
Hours: Daily 9am–6pm

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