Merve Canakci
dal 18/2/2015 al 27/3/2015
Segnalato da
18/2/2015
Merve Canakci
artSumer Gallery, Istanbul
In "Paper cut" the artist presents works using mixed media on large scale printed, found, used or defective fabrics.
artSümer is preparing to host Merve Çanakçı’s third solo show “Paper Cut” from February 19 to March 28, 2015.
This time, Çanakçı delves in deeper and further out in the exploration of the domestic condition, a theme that bears traces of her previous solo show, “That Mood”.
As the artist paints cloth surfaces, an essential material in human life, she further refines her hybrid understanding of technique. She creates certain scenes, looking at the relationship of the past and of childhood with the present or day-to-day. The viewer wanders in the not always explicable but certainly uncanny gap between childhood memory and their reflections on the person’s present. These scenes pertain to the first records engraved in a person’s mind and body, transformed all the while they are kept one’s entire life – ‘childhood’.
A paper cut is thin and closes up easily. Even when the cut can no longer be seen, splinters left under the skin continue to tingle and remind themselves. Çanakçı invites us to venture into the scar.
Born in 1982, Merve Çanakçı studied painting at Mimar Sinan Fine Art University. Her first solo show took place at artSümer in 2010. Selected group shows include : ‘Soft City’, Alan İstanbul, ‘Stay With Me’, Apartment Project, Berlin and ‘A Dream But Not Yours’, Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC. The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Image: Merve Canakci, 100 splinters, 2014, acrylic on denim, 188x153 cm
Opening: 19 February 2015
artSumer Gallery
Kemankes Mah., Mumhane Cad. 67/A
Istanbul Turchia