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OPENING EXHIBITIONS 3 september-3 november 07
bitmemis-unfinished
BM-SUMA OPENING EXHIBITION 1 SEPTEMBER-3 NOVEMBER, 2007 bitmemis-unfinished The
Opening exhibition of BM-Suma will not present finished art works but
the idea, research, experiments, plans, texts and other material or documentation
before an art work is accomplished. The goal of this endeavor is to give
the viewer an opportunity to pass through the procedures and processes
of art making together with the artist and to try to imagine the outcome
of this mental and physical and work. This in progress route may restore
the damaged gaze of the viewer as an anonymous consumer and revamp the
relationship between the artist and the viewer. The gaze is damaged in
the sense that the viewer is excessively accustomed to be the submissive
recipient and consume the art works which have direct visual or verbal
statements. On the other side, considering the inadequate conditions of
culture industry in Turkey and the artists delicate position in
it we still need to verify and put the accent on his position as theorist,
researcher, investigator and provocateur. Within the unfinished modernism
and its weight on post-modernism and globalization the artist operates
and produces with a certain legacy of avant-gardism, journeying into the
micro and macro political, social and cultural topographies, finding connections
between distanced incidents and affairs, combining proto-types with the
extraordinary, planning ways out of the daily issues and triviality with
unpredicted mental jumps. The artists operational field is a field
of resistance in opposition to the commonality of consumption and media
culture, to the mental lethargy and indifference and in this respect a
silent and invisible antagonism prevails between the apparatus of the
culture industry and art making. The yet un-produced but ready to be produced
with all its mental processes, research and documentation, the art work
is quite distanced to the apparatus of the culture industry. The exhibition
intends to present this rare moment of virtuousness of the artwork. People
need to learn more than ever to dream and share the world when nightmares
generated by the ambiguous politics of globalism and the climate change
constantly threaten their existence. Beatles song inviting people
to re-think about their common existence is still convincing. And, todays
art with its multi-cultural content, with its curiosity, with its quest
for alternatives is one of the most effective means to share the world.
Is there not a fundamental common conviction in art making? We always
affirm that an art work can survive without a gallery, a collector or
a biennale but art must reach its audience in order to exist at all. However,
this process is delayed, spoiled and falls through as long as the art
works compete with the objects of consumption and became conceptually
and technologically complex and the art market mechanisms exploits the
production rationale and process in favor of its own interests. As long
as we, the actors of culture industry discuss the evaluation of the art
work in the media and art market and argue about the profit of art and
culture institutions, we tend to abandon the social and mental benefit
of art and that consequently follows by a rupture of communication between
the artists and the viewer.
PROJECTS of ART WORKS - SANAT YAPITLARI PROJELERi VOLKAN ARSLAN >>, ERGÝN ÇAVUÞOÐLU >>, PARASTOU FOROUHAR >>, MELÝH GÖRGÜN >>, NiLBAR GÜRES >>, SERHAT KiRAZ >>, ULRIKE MOHR >>, AHMET ÖKTEM >>, SERMIN SHERIF >>, DiLEK WINCHESTER >>
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