Brigitte Kowanz
dal 14/9/2012 al 19/1/2013
Segnalato da
14/9/2012
Brigitte Kowanz
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
Cut a Long Story Short. The exhibition features sculptural work and a site specific installation by renowned Austrian artist. In keeping with a common strategy of her practice, the work in this show consistently forces the viewer to decipher what is untold and hidden beyond the objects and the space they inhabit.
curated by Kathleen Forde
On September 15, 2012, Borusan Contemporary welcomes the fall, when it will be celebrating its first anniversary, with a show of light – based on sculptural work and a site specific installation by renowned Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz. This exhibition, titled Cut a Long Story Short, will present recent work by the artist, including a newly produced piece that shares its title. In keeping with a common strategy of her practice, the work in this show consistently forces the viewer to decipher what is untold and hidden beyond the objects and the space they inhabit.
This exhibition can be visited on weekends between September 15th and January 20th. This show is one in a series of temporary exhibitions by media artists in the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection. The curator of the exhibition is Kathleen Forde, the newly appointed Artistic Director of Borusan Contemporary.
Istanbul -- Borusan Contemporary hosts one of the most influential and renowned artists of our time, Brigitte Kowanz in Perili Köşk with her solo exhibition titled Cut a Long Story Short. The curator of the exhibition is Kathleen Forde. In addition to her new role as the Artistic Director at Large at Borusan Contemporary, Forde also curated the Daniel Canogar exhibition ‘River of History’ at Borusan Contemporary in January of this year. In Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz’s exhibition Cut a Long Story Short, the galleries of Borusan Contemporary will be transformed into a neon and mirror landscape of the infinite. The Cut a Long Story Short exhibition can be visited on weekends between September 15th and January 20th. Turkey's first and only office museum will be celebrating its first anniversary with this extraordinary exhibition.
A Mysterious Journey with Light and Neon
In Brigitte Kowanz’s Cut a Long Story Short, discrete objects and finite space function collectively to create a whole greater than its parts: an aesthetic and philosophical journey that utterly transcends the experience of any solitary work or single perceptual moment.
The first gallery is an architectural intervention in the artist’s signature mix of language, neon and Morse code. The mirrored surfaces of the installation create a boundary-less space in which objects are not merely contained but reflected and re-reflected, encouraging us to look and look again. The second gallery is likewise transformed, into a celestial environment of floating neon orbs. There is a familiarity to their shape and to the script-like neon, yet the effect is mysterious and otherworldly.
As the title of the exhibition suggests, what is cut out — what is visually obscured or intellectually concealed — is the real story here, or at the very least a significant conceptual element. Throughout the exhibition the artist is consistently provoking the viewer, forcing us to decipher what is being hidden and revealed. Initial impressions and superficial effects evolve and give way, and our persistence — taking the time to see — is rewarded.
“Light is the prerequisite for seeing and knowing; but we can only perceive light itself in connection with matter. Light is energetic and dynamic, it is an information carrier. Light can be and not be. This on and off means it is possible to convey information by means of light. Apart from which, light is expansive and evanescent, it never remains where it is – light is a metaphor for life.” – Brigitte Kowanz 2012
www.kowanz.com
www.kathleenforde.com
Image: In light of light, 2011, Neon, High-grade steel, 149 x 149 x12 cm. Resim. Photography: Rainer Iglar, Sanatçının izniyle /
Courtesy of the artist
Borusan Contemporary
Baltalimanı Hisar Street, Perili Köşk No:5, 34470 - Rumelihisarı, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Saturdays & Sundays Only
10.00 am - 8.00 pm
The Museum is closed on weekdays, the first days of the Ramadan and Sacrifice Feast holidays, as well as on January 1.
Entrance Fees
Adult : 10 TL
Concessions :5 TL (students, teachers, visitors aged 60 and over)
Groups : 7 TL (group of 10 or more)
Free: Children 12 years and under with one accompanying adult, Disabled visitors and one accompanying adult, ICOM members, Press members