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16/2/2015

Tufan Baltalar

Pilot Galeri, Istanbul

Pilot Gallery hosts Tufan Baltalar’s solo exhibition titled “Stand By” between February 17 and March 28. The exhibition, composed of the artist’s three recent series, offers an intersection of the recurring narratives and ongoing interests within his work.

American author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “I went to the woods / because I wished to live deliberately / to front only the essential facts of life / and see if I could not learn what it had to teach / and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” The lines of the semi-autobiographical semi self-discovery book “Walden”, in which Thoreau described the two years he’d spent in a cabin at Walden Pont without support of any kind, remind us of Tufan Baltalar’s journey - part real and part imaginary - that lead on from his previous exhibitions “Viewing Terrace” and “in between”. In the cloud and landscape series, Baltalar continues to trace the intimate encounter of human and nature. The artist’s canvas paintings in different sizes stem from photographs taken during his frequent bike sessions and draw attention to the potential of the landscape genre for representing inner experience.

In Stand By paintings, the namesake series for the exhibition, Baltalar portrays sleeping figures based on the photographs he took or was given. By exploring sleep beyond the physical signs, he equates this inactive state of being with rest; thus highlights our need to relief and makes a proposal regarding the before and after of the sleep.

In each of the painting series that convey intimacy, Tufan Baltalar, similar to Thoreau’s Walden experience, points to a reform and revival, rather than a permanent escape.

Image: Tufan Baltalar, Untitled (Detail), from landscape series, 2014, oil on canvas, 20x20 cm

Opening 17 February 2015

Pilot Galeri
Siraselviler Caddesi. No:83/2
Beyoglu/Istanbul

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