05-01-2012

25-02-2012

Turkey, Istanbul
Bogazkesen Cad. No:76A Tophane-Beyoglu

Posted by: yesim-turanli

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Source www.piartworks.com

Tunca Subaşı predicts a “residue-esque” impression reproducing photographic images that generate historical memory in this exhibition of his recent works.

Specifying the contradictions between social layers and the communal events originated by these contradictions as his main subjects, the artist paints in forms that are figures compared at random without any reference to anything else. Yet the figures used do not appear devoid of context. They are not motionless on the canvas surface, on the contrary, they point to actions going out of the surface. In the content of the subjects the artist emphasizes, it is also possible to read the ironic language created by the socio-political contradictions. Subaşı produces new representations from the documents that remain until now marking a historical conjuncture, snaps these representations off from the realty he refers and converts to an ironic narration.

Printed materials such as bills, banners and posters utilized mainly for propaganda methods and premeditatedly fretted objects are used by the artist while expanding his discourse. In his works, analyzing historical transformations off the canvas surface, Tunca Subaşı reproduces, with stencil and airbrush technique, visual representations that could be catch phrases bearing graphical effects. As much as the “residues” of the language the artist disclosed narrates a holistic scene, each work could also be interpreted in itself as an element of an event.

After his graduation from Mimar Sinan University, Department of Painting, Tunca Subaşı has made the “Floating Slum House” project in 2005 with Guido Casaretto. Following his first solo exhibition at Gallery Artist (Istanbul, 2006), he exhibited “Little Boy” at Sanatorium Art Initiative-Contemporary Art Gallery (Istanbul, 2010). In 2011 he joined in “Raw Cases” exhibition at Siemens Sanat, “Abuse” exhibition at Sanatorium Art Initiative-Contemporary Art Gallery and Poetry Scores Art Invitational at Mad Art Gallery (St. Louis, USA).

For detailed information: Mehmet Kahraman: mk@piartworks.com, Tuğba Esen: te@piartworks.com

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