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Photo: Sami Akbeniz
hakan akçura's second solo exhibition between 17.10.1998 / 16.11.1998 at dulcinea (free space for contemporary art), istanbul
At exhibition
Photo: Sami Akbeniz
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Hakan Akçura who is having his second solo exhibition two years after the first, as Dulcinea's opening exhibition was invited to the 4th İstanbul Biennial.
Akçura does not display any of the paintings individually in this exhibition.
He presents his audience a series of paintings which are related to each other. These paintings relate the different states of one or more individuals who are on the same balcony, house, window, deck, changing according to time and light. Therefore, in these diptychs we face figures who are made to 'interact with themselves' by the artists. Akçura questions a basic proposition of art history in his exhibition, which allows for a fluent, humorous and enjoyable viewing: how does the uniqueness of the content and object of the art-work affect its value? In questioning this, he uses the references of traditional / contemporary painting unlike many contemporary artists dealing with this issue through means of printmaking, which invites us to a 'gap' full of tension.
Akçura does not display any of the paintings individually in this exhibition.
He presents his audience a series of paintings which are related to each other. These paintings relate the different states of one or more individuals who are on the same balcony, house, window, deck, changing according to time and light. Therefore, in these diptychs we face figures who are made to 'interact with themselves' by the artists. Akçura questions a basic proposition of art history in his exhibition, which allows for a fluent, humorous and enjoyable viewing: how does the uniqueness of the content and object of the art-work affect its value? In questioning this, he uses the references of traditional / contemporary painting unlike many contemporary artists dealing with this issue through means of printmaking, which invites us to a 'gap' full of tension.
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