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“Bir İkili” solo sergi 12 .02. 2020 - 22.03.2020 @Krank Art Gallery Istanbul

                         
KRANK Art Gallery 13 Şubat- 22 Mart arası Güneş Terkol’un “Bir İkili” adlı sergisine ev sahipliği yapıyor. 16. İstanbul Bienali’nde Güçlü Öztekin ile beraber gerçekleştirdiği Worlbmon adlı enstalasyonu ile yer alan sanatçı, KRANK Art Gallery’deki solo sergisinde bienal sürecinde ürettiği eserlerinin yanısıra son dönemde ürettiği ahşap ve serigrafik baskı ve litografileri ile katılıyor. Sergiye aynı zamanda Güneş Terkol’un ilk sanatçı kitabı da eşlik edecek.
Güneş Terkol, çalışmalarında sıklıkla, kişisel ve kollektif hikayelerden ilham aldığı figürleri ve sahneleri işleyerek kumaşları dönüştürür. Yaşadığı çevrenin etkisi altında işler üretse de eserleri gerçeküstü ve sembol yüklü kompozisyonlar ile doludur. Sanatçı, insanların, özellikle kadınların, kalıplaşmış cinsiyet ve sınıf stereotiplerine direnmek ve kendi kişisel arzularını ve kimliklerini savunmak için buldukları yolları inceler. Politik ifadesi üretim tekniği ve temsil içeriğine gömülmüştür adeta.
Mitoslar ve masallar kendilerini sembol dili aracılığı ile ifade eden geçmiş zaman bilgelikleri ve özdeyişleridir. İnsanlık tarihinin en eski eserlerinden olan mitoslarla, günlük yaşantımızın ürünleri olan rüyalar, birbirleri ile şaşırtıcı bir benzerlik gösterirler. Özünde her ikisi de yaşanmışlık ve hatıra hazineleridir. Tüm dış baskılardan arındığımız uyku durumunda, uyanık hale oranla daha gerçekçi ve özgür oluruz. Bilinçli haldeyken bastırıp, ittiğimiz ya da duyup, görmek istemediğimiz bir çok şey, rüyalar aracılığı ile dile gelip karşımıza dikilirler. Güneş Terkol’un ince ve geçirgen çalışmaları bizi rüyalar ve mitoslar dünyasına sokarak, özünde gerçek masallar anlatmaktadırlar. Masallar gibi uçucu ve inandırıcı olan bu çalışmalar bir büyü dünyasının içinden geçen bilmece bulmaca enigmasına ait gibi durmaktadırlar.
Güneş Terkol’un eserlerindeki hikayeler bizim dünyamıza ait olarak bir nakış gibi işlenmişlerdir. Soyutlaştırılan figürlerin, çoğul ruh halleri ve büyüleyici kişiselliği karşımıza geçmiş, bizi onlara bakmaya sevk etmektedir. Cinsel anlamda ikili doğasını yansıtan teatral ve metaforik personalar, çekici oldukları kadar sevimli bir uçuculuk ve tuhaflık taşımaktadır.
Güneş Terkol “Bir İkili” sergisinde izleyiciyi:
“bir ikili biri akıl diğeri kalp
kaideleri ortak
bir ikili sarmaş dolaş
hem gülen hem somurtan” dizeleri ile karşılar.
Düşsel bir takım imgelerin bir görünüp bir kaybolduğu film perdesini andıran yerleştirmesinde sanatçı, ikili durumları inceler. Beden-ruh, akıl-kalp, mutluluk-keder gibi dualistik kavramların bütünlüklü bir varoluş içerisinde yarattığı dengeyi gözler önüne serer. 2019-2020 kış döneminde Akbank baskı atölyesine uygulayıcı sanatçı olarak seçilen Güneş Terkol, nakış tekniği yerine baskı tekniği kullanarak kariyerinde bir ilki gerçekleştirdiği eserlerini de bu yerleştirmesine dahil etmektedir.
KRANK Art Gallery’de 20 Mart’a kadar devam edecek sergiye sanatçının kariyerinde ilk olma özelliğini taşıyacak olan sanatçı kitabı da eşlik edecek. Yazılarını Ali Akay, Bige Örer ve Sibel Erdamar’ın yazdığı kitapta sanatçının kariyerinin yapıtaşlarını oluşturan karma ve solo sergiler, katıldığı bienaller ve kollektif çalışmalarının ürünü olan pankart ve ses atölyeleri mercek altına alınmaktadır.
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KRANK Art Gallery is hosting Güneş Terkol’s exhibition “One Twoness” between 12 February and 22 March. Terkol has participated in the 16th Istanbul Biennial with an installation titled Worlbmon, realised in collaboration with Güçlü Öztekin, and alongside her works produced during the biennial, she will be presenting her recent woodcut prints, silkscreens and lithographic artworks in her solo exhibition at KRANK Art Gallery. The exhibition will also be accompanied by Güneş Terkol’s first artist’s book.
In her artworks, Güneş Terkol often transforms fabrics by embroidering figures and scenes inspired by personal and collective stories. Although she produces artworks influenced by the environment she lives in, her works are full of compositions that are surreal and symbol laden. As an artist, she explores the ways people, especially women, have found to resist against the stereotypes of gender and class, and to defend their personal desires and identities. The term political is almost embedded in her technique of production and the content of her representations.
Myths and fairy tales are the wisdom and aphorisms of the past that express themselves through a language of symbols. Myths, which are among the oldest creations of human history, and dreams, which are the products of our everyday lives, display a surprising similarity with one another. Essentially, both are treasures of experience and memory. In the state of sleep, when we are free from all external pressures, we become more realistic and free than when we are awake. A lot of the things that we suppress and push away, or don’t want to hear or see when we are conscious, find a voice and confront us in our dreams. Güneş Terkol’s delicate and translucent works lead us into the world of dreams and myths, and tell us fairy tales that are essentially real. These artworks, both volatile and convincing like fairy tales, seem to belong to an enigma of riddles that pass through a realm of magic.
The stories that belong to our world in the artworks of Güneş Terkol are embroidered like fine tapestries. The plural emotional states and the fascinating personal nature of the abstracted figures stand in front of us and urge us to look at them. The theatrical and metaphorical personas that present a sexual duality, are attractive as well as bearing a charming volatility and oddity.
In the exhibition, “One Twoness”, Güneş Terkol welcomes the viewers with the following verses:
“a duo, one is mind, the other heart
they share the same rules
a duo interlaced
both smiling and frowning”.
In her installation resembling a film screen where a number of imaginary images appear and disappear, the artist examines circumstances of duality. She reveals the balance that dualistic concepts such as body-soul, mind-heart, happiness-grief create in an integrated state of existence. Having been selected as the practising artist for the Akbank Art Printmaking Studio for the 2019-2020 winter period, for the first time in her career Güneş Terkol will also include artworks made by utilising printing techniques instead of embroidery in her installation.
The exhibition, which will be on view until 20th March at KRANK Art Gallery, will also be accompanied by the first ever artist’s book of Terkol’s career. The book that includes texts by Ali Akay, Bige Örer and Sibel Erdamar, will be examining the group and solo exhibitions that are the cornerstones of the artist’s career, the biennials she had participated in, and the banner and sound workshops she has conducted, which constitute the products of her collective works.
About Güneş Terkol
Güneş Terkol was born in 1981 and she graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of 2004. She received her master’s degree from the Interdisciplinary Art Department of Yıldız Technical University, and after completing her studies she attended artist residences in Paris, New York, London, and Chongqing. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad, and has had nine solo exhibitions in Chonqing, Istanbul and Ankara. In addition to the banner projects she has been carrying out as collective projects realised with women from different countries, sound workshops also constitute an important part of her works. Having participated in Lyon Biennal in 2007, Gwangju Biennal in 2014, and Sao Paulo Biennial in 2016, most recently the artist took part in the 16th Istanbul Biennial last year with a giant installation titled Worlbmon.
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