The Beginnings
dal 21/2/2006 al 17/3/2006
Segnalato da
21/2/2006
The Beginnings
Kasa Gallery, Istanbul
The video by Matteo Fato is constructed on a sequence from Giuseppe Tornatore's movie 'La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano' and shows the sequence of the film as it alternates with the animation consisting of 807 drawings. Seda Ozen builds up sort of a documentation which consisits of politics, ways of living, music, books, fashion, entertainment world of 80s.
Different Approaches to Drawing. Matteo Fato and Seda Ozen
Sabanci University Kasa Gallery will present this year's exhibition from
the "The Beginnings: Different Approaches to Drawing" series. Works by Matteo Fato and Seda Ozen will be on show until 18 March.
In this year's exhibition from the series 'The Beginnings ...', where
drawing as the basic form of visual representation is reconsidered in
different types of production, two young artists employ drawing in their
work as they revisit and reuse the visual material from media of film
and intenet.
The first video, 'ri...Tornatore', by Matteo Fato is constructed on a
sequence from Giuseppe Tornatore's movie 'La leggenda del pianista
sull'oceano' (The Legend of 1900). The video shows the sequence of the
film as it alternates with the animation consisting of 807 drawings made
with a graphic pen; the story is told interchangeably using two ways of
representation. According to Fato, this work is not intended to be an
animated video; it is rather a pictorial work where each drawing is in
fact a 'por...trait', an individual work with its own life. In 'Il
taccuino'(The Notebook) there is a construction of a false internet page
where Fato is the only possible navigator and the visitor is invited to
peek through the notes and drawings on the pages of a small notebook.
In 'Resim Defteri'(Picture Book) Seda Ozen builds up sort of a
documentation which consisits of politics, ways of living, music, books,
fashion, entertainment world of 80s. Various images from 80s, searched
and downloaded from internet, are disconnected from their contexts and
reproduced on primary school drawing books by using pencil. In her
second work 'Bugun hava yine yag(murlu'(It's Rainy Again), Ozen
produces a 'meteorological' metaphor with her drawing which covers one
whole gallery wall.
Detailed resumes of the artists are available at Kasa Gallery.
Opening: 22 February 2006, 6:30 pm.
Sabanci University Kasa Gallery,
Bankalar caddesi No: 2 Karakoy- Istanbul