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SARKIS READIES FOR NEW SOLO SHOW
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
April 22 2013
Sarkis aims to exhibit a new installtion at Gallery Mana. He will
also aim to bring his latest workd together at the solo exhibtion
that will open in May.
Turkish-Armenian artist Sarkis is preparing to open a new solo
exhibition at Galeri Manâ on May 23.
The artist's first solo exhibition at Galeri Manâ will present a new
installation, bringing together his most recent works. The exhibition
will be complemented by a conversation between Sarkis, Uwe Fleckner
and Nico Anklam at the nearby Galata Greek Primary School on May 24
at 6 p.m.
In "İkiz/Twin," Sarkis creates a universe of dualities at work in
multiple layers. Copper surfaces with their reflective and transmissive
properties take center stage in a setting where each floor of the
gallery space acts as an original twin to the other. The twins are
endowed with minor distortions expressed in the time lapse and spatial
divide between the two floors, and also in the substance and the
form of each work. Each object is encountered twice but both are of
essence, referring to the founding dualisms of the human experience
and conception of the universe. This duality is transcended only by
the sound element of the exhibition.
A musical score also fills the entire space, also connecting the
exhibition to Sarkis' "Ballads" installation at the former shipyard in
Rotterdam, while the distant, ringing sound of bells conveys the song
of two whales in dialogue as Sarkis engages in his own conversation
with John Cage.
A fully illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition with
contributions by Fleckner and Anklam focusing respectively on Sarkis'
use of visual phenomena in relation to memory and on this latest
installation of works.
Since the earliest stages of his artistic practice, Sarkis has
searched for an aesthetic language and experience characteristic
of contemporary times. A constant urge to create a new language
underlies Sarkis' oeuvre, which is always reflective of the nature
of the materials, media and sites he uses. Taking inspiration from
autobiographical elements as well as art history, literature, music
and film, he emphasizes the historicity and performativity of objects
and sites. Through the physical, historical and conceptual encounters
he stages, the artist brings new life to fixed and frozen depositories
of memory.
The exhibition will continue until July 6.
April/22/2013
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
April 22 2013
Sarkis aims to exhibit a new installtion at Gallery Mana. He will
also aim to bring his latest workd together at the solo exhibtion
that will open in May.
Turkish-Armenian artist Sarkis is preparing to open a new solo
exhibition at Galeri Manâ on May 23.
The artist's first solo exhibition at Galeri Manâ will present a new
installation, bringing together his most recent works. The exhibition
will be complemented by a conversation between Sarkis, Uwe Fleckner
and Nico Anklam at the nearby Galata Greek Primary School on May 24
at 6 p.m.
In "İkiz/Twin," Sarkis creates a universe of dualities at work in
multiple layers. Copper surfaces with their reflective and transmissive
properties take center stage in a setting where each floor of the
gallery space acts as an original twin to the other. The twins are
endowed with minor distortions expressed in the time lapse and spatial
divide between the two floors, and also in the substance and the
form of each work. Each object is encountered twice but both are of
essence, referring to the founding dualisms of the human experience
and conception of the universe. This duality is transcended only by
the sound element of the exhibition.
A musical score also fills the entire space, also connecting the
exhibition to Sarkis' "Ballads" installation at the former shipyard in
Rotterdam, while the distant, ringing sound of bells conveys the song
of two whales in dialogue as Sarkis engages in his own conversation
with John Cage.
A fully illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition with
contributions by Fleckner and Anklam focusing respectively on Sarkis'
use of visual phenomena in relation to memory and on this latest
installation of works.
Since the earliest stages of his artistic practice, Sarkis has
searched for an aesthetic language and experience characteristic
of contemporary times. A constant urge to create a new language
underlies Sarkis' oeuvre, which is always reflective of the nature
of the materials, media and sites he uses. Taking inspiration from
autobiographical elements as well as art history, literature, music
and film, he emphasizes the historicity and performativity of objects
and sites. Through the physical, historical and conceptual encounters
he stages, the artist brings new life to fixed and frozen depositories
of memory.
The exhibition will continue until July 6.
April/22/2013
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress