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28/11/2014

Overture: New Acquisitions

Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul

Two new exhibitions comprised of selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection will open to the public at the end of November.

In the office spaces at Perili Köşk Curator Nazlı Gürlek’s has selected works with the shared literal and symbolic theme of water entitled “Common Ground: Water”. This hang is the second in a series of three shows that Gürlek has organized revolving around the concepts of earth, water and air.

In the special exhibition galleries, Borusan Contemporary’s Artistic Director Kathleen Forde has curated an exhibition of recently acquired works not previously on view titled “Overture: New Acquisitions from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection”. Artists include: Jim Campbell, Ali Kazma, Serkan Ozkaya, Jennifer Steinkamp, Universal Everything and Marina Zurkow.

Overture: New Acquisitions

The exhibition “Overture: New Acquisitons” functions as a representative snapshot of the geographic, esthetic and genre based initiatives of Borusan’s recent collecting activities.

Jim Campbell’s Exploded View consists of multiple hanging white LEDs and extrudes a traditionally two-dimensional surface into three dimensions. From most perspectives, the work appears as a random array of blinking lights. But from a certain vantage point, the subject shifts into focus: figures barely decipherable by the eye but strangely comprehensible to the mind.

Ali Kazma’s Absence is shot in an abandoned NATO base in Holland, with no trace of the human figure but provocative and at times haunting suggestions of its previous presence. As Kazma describes his working process, he observes the little things, things that one usually does not associate with the spectacle that war has become. And through these small things, he tries to build a representation of the mentality, the understanding of the world that the war machine has.

Serkan Ozkaya’s work Mirage—also the name for a series of French fighter-bomber aircrafts—references an otherworldly vision (illusion or delusion), while the moving shadow semantically and physically plays with notions of absence and presence. Without making any intervention on the space itself other than light adjustments, Ozkaya presents a situation that reverses the perceptive faculties of the viewer, and that becomes a multilayered anomaly.

Jennifer Steinkamp’s Fly to Mars is a computer-animated projection of a tree that comes to life with movement as it cycles through the four seasons of the year. From colorful flowering buds in spring to leafless branches in winter, viewers experience the natural cycle of a tree’s foliage. Simultaneously, the tree bows up and down, as though attempting to break free from the earth’s gravity and take flight into the cosmos.

Founded in 2004, Universal Everything is a multidisciplinary studio collective. A lone figure struggles to make his way across a sparse, grassy landscape in Universal Everything’s Supreme Believers. The journey consists of a seemingly endless battling of the elements as they return the combative action. The body then starts to decompose, mysteriously surrendering to the invisible physical forces, and disappears into a curious and mesmerizing cascade of particles.

Marina Zurkow’s Mesocosm (Times Square, New York) is an algorithmic work, representing the passage of time in a speculative, hybrid Times Square. One hour of world time elapses in each minute of screen time, so that one year lasts 146 hours. No cycle is identical to the last, as the appearance and behavior of the human and non-human characters, as well as changes in the weather, are determined by a code using a simple probability equation: seasons unfold, days pass, moons rise and set, while animals, people, and weather come and go.

Common Ground: Water

“Common Ground: Water” is the second exhibition in the series entitled “Common Ground: Earth, Water, Air – Selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection” that is on view throughout 2014-15. This series includes three inter-related exhibitions that aim to offer a thematic look into the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection. It brings together works from the collection that are selected on the basis of a shared concern with the concepts of three “commons” including earth, water and air.

“Common Ground: Water” proposes to engage with various representations of water and a series of worldly matters related to water as a way to engage with contemporary art and the world. Earth, water and air, sources belonging to everybody and our joint property, are issues whose management bears importance for our life on Earth insofar as equality and sustainability are concerned. The exhibition focuses on the meaning of this from the context of a selection of works from the corporate collection that refer to water in terms of either form or content. It includes a variety of works including photographs, paintings, interactive installations, videos, neon, and prints that relate to a wide range of natural contexts; from noble representations of beautiful and romantic landscapes, and industrial sites, to different aspects of nature’s emotional impact on the landscape, from calm and idyllic settings to stormy seascapes.

Image: Universal Everything, Supreme Believers, 2011, Audio-Visual Installation, Ed. 1/6

Opening: Saturday 29 November 2014

Borusan Contemporary
Baltalimanı Hisar Street, Perili Köşk No:5, 34470
Rumelihisarı, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
10.00 am - 8.00 pm
The Museum is closed on weekdays,
the first days of the Ramadan
Sacrifice Feast holidays, as well as on January 1.

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