Reflecting his ‘colorful, kaleidoscopic’ inner world, artist Mehmet Sinan Kuran puts forth a unique style of art that explores the peace and chaos of life. After previous series such as Posthumous (2020) and Introvert (2019), the solo exhibition Nowhere. Now Here. features the artist’s new works centered around the vibrant ‘liberation of the soul’. Available from Thursday, 8th of September till Sunday, 4th of December at Anna Laudel Gallery. More information available via the artist’s website and the exhibition page.
From the organizer:
Anna Laudel Istanbul presents Mehmet Sinan Kuran’s extensive solo exhibition titled “Nowhere. Now Here.” between 8 September – 4 December 2022. Inviting the audience to question the possibilities in life, “Nowhere. Now Here.” is an expanded continuation of his previous exhibition titled “Posthumous”, which means “afterlife” in Latin. The artist focuses on the liberation of the soul and offers a vibrant narrative by turning the exhibition into a joyful commemoration.
“Nowhere. Now Here.” presents a pluralistic world view, as well as Kuran’s own artistic approach full of irony, joy and sadness in the light of different disciplines including drawings, sculptures, paintings, ceramics, light boxes, glass, found objects, sketchbooks and installations. Kuran reflects the layers of the soul and the importance of the experiences gained at the different stages of our lives including childhood, youth, middle age and old age and constructs his own death ceremony with a joyful ritual, exploring new ways of a peaceful, pleasant and chaotic world full of light.
The artist takes the art lovers on a journey by reversing Nietzsche’s representation of the child. Kuran inverts the situation between childhood and old age, like in the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and sheds light on birth and death, youth and old age, and knowledge and ignorance. Folding science fiction, myth or a ritualistic belief like an origami, the artist creates a conceptual framework that the more an individual reaches higher consciousness and experiences the whole world with age, the more s/he becomes child-like, and the more a person becomes child-like, the more s/he finds peace.
The artist creates three universes that are named “Earth, Sky and Sea”, where each drawing or figure presents the value of mortality, the end of life, and the meaning of being mortal, unveiling the concept of death in a very cheerful, festival-like manner, which is rather unlikely for humankind.
Featuring a selection of Mehmet Sinan Kuran’s new artworks that lays the foundation of a new world with a beautification about his own death, “Nowhere. Now Here.” can be visited until December 4, 2022 at Anna Laudel Istanbul.
Gümüşsuyu, Kazancı Ykş. No: 45 D:49a, 34437 Beyoğlu/İstanbul
