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PAINTER OR THE MATERIOLOGY OF PAINTING Oğuz Karayemiş 1. (noun) A person who takes painting as a profession. 2. (noun) A person who makes or sells paint. 3. (noun) Paint store. Turkish Language Association, “Painter” Problem I: How do images stand? Proposition I: There is a materiology that investigates the corporeal dimensions of images in art. Proposition II: The materiology of painting reveals its links with the ecosystem. We have been looking at them for centuries but ...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
BETWEEN KINETIC PLACIDITY AND STATIC RUSH Osman Can Yerebakan The promise in tension constitutes silent explosions and deafenings stillnesses. Somewhere between the comfort in the known and the challenge of the ambiguous, painting can suggest an answer, a liquidly-bordered definition of the perceived. Yağız Özgen’s paintings inhabit a territory of firm assumptions and interchangeable truths. Space—with its gargantuan mysteries and optic luster—lays the ground for the Istanbul-based artist’s acrylic works and mixed-media installations. Systematic yet kinetic, Özgen’s surfaces stem from ...
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Repeating Cycles, Anomalies and Prototypes of Imagination
This text is about the context of the works which will come together in the second issue of the magazine, the first issue of which has been published under the title “06.2020/14/dergi”. The founder and coordinator of the mentioned periodical is the artist Sergen Şehitoğlu. Şehitoğlu has created a periodical which has included in its first issue 14 works produced by 14 artists for a medium in the form of a magazine. This periodical creates a quite different context than ...
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Instructions
ON THE BORDERLINE OF EMPRICISM: YAĞIZ ÖZGEN INSTRUCTIONS Kerem Ozan Bayraktar “The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”[1] Bertrand Russell Instructions is a performative exhibition that directly reveals Yağız Özgen’s practice and form of thinking. It is prepared with great diligence, which transforms his form of thinking into the work itself. A now ordinary word “interdisciplinary”, ...
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The book which was edited by Merve Akar Akgün, featuring texts by Esra Aliçavuşoğlu and Şeref Erol, and information on the works that were presented at SANATORIUM as part of the exhibition “METADATA”, and designed by Dilara Sezgin, is in circulation. Preface: We cannot ignore the fact that today, at the beginning of the 21st century, (expected to be further studied by sociologists) we are in a time course which is taking us beyond contemporary. With the feelings feelings of entrapment ...
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AN ESSAY ON YAĞIZ ÖZGEN’S WORKS IN THE CONTEXT OF KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY: METADATA Şeref Erol “In art it is hard to say anything as good as: saying nothing.”[1] Ludwig Wittgenstein This textual work has been produced about the form of exhibition consisting of Yağız Özgen’s artworks in the form of painting brought together by him under the name of “Meta-Data”. The text will primarily attempt to realize a philosophical analysis related to Yağız Özgen’s most general artistic apprehension within ...
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