The Photographers’ Gallery will host “Limited”, the venue’s first exhibition of editions, from Tuesday 4 October through Saturday 29 October.
From the organizer:
Limited (Sınırlı) is Photographers’ Gallery Istanbul’s first exhibition of editions. The exhibition includes works by the following sixteen artists, some of whom are on the gallery’s roster: Stanko Abadzic, Haşim Aygün, Sevil Alkan, İlknur Can, Hakan Çınar, Dinçer Dökümcü, Emrullah Eyvallah, Onur Korkmaz, Mehveş Leliç, Timurtaş Onan, Tamer Serbay, Imre Szabo, Erhan Şermet, Tuncer Tunç, Cem Turgay and Erdem Varol.
Limiting the number of editions of a photographic print contributes to the print’s value as a work of art and as an authentic piece. The artist, in this case, caps the number of prints of a specific work at a certain number. The number of the editions of works in this exhibition ranges from one and 20.
We invite viewers to enter a world full of unique forms, lines, and defined contrasts, made visible through rays of white light seeping into endless, silent and dark spaces.
Timurtaş Onan contributes two prints to the show: one from his Abandoned series, which explores two silent and almost completely unused shipyards in Istanbul that predate the colossal effects of urban transformation; and the second from his Paris series, which explores what he names as one of the first and foremost cities that ignited his love for the medium.
Croatian photographer Stanko Abadzic, one of the most prominent artists of the medium in the Balkans, contributes works from two series he has worked on in different periods of his career. The artist searches for the unchanging values of urban and provincial life, as well as the worry-free days of youth, with his signature use of poetry, light, and nostalgic compositions.
Cem Turgay interprets his dreams and questions reality through the ironic and grotesque images he has created to defy popular conceptions of beauty. He depicts his fears, disappointments and trauma in a provocative and intellectually stimulating manner.
Tuncer Tunç employs fictional compositions in his work and encourages the viewer to question reality in his photographs as well. He achieves this through placing small but powerful referential images in large spaces. His work conjures the feeling of alienation that has emerged from the tragedies of our era, as well as the stipulations of the economic and political system.
Hungarian-born, Belgrade-based photographer Imre Szabo, describes his art by saying, ‘I play with light and shadow, after all, I am a photographer.’ The press photographer tries to re-tell stories of events and people in calm and childish naiveté.
Multi-disciplinary artist Tamer Serbay re-photographs the works of masters digitally and paints over them using acrylics, rendering their work contemporary.
Two emerging artists, two different texhniques: Dinçer Dökümcü uses oil paint on polaroid photographs, ‘making a record of a moment and later overlaying [his] dreams on top of it.’ Haşim Aygün, on the other hand, transforms the human body into voiceless and natural objects in space by stripping it of its sexual identity. He uses the Van Dyke technique in his prints.
The two other emerging artists in the show are Erdem Varol and Onur Korkmaz. Erdem Varol says his photographs are the stories he has collected on the disquiet of being trapped within one body, and limited time and space, as well as the monsters that soothe him. Onur Korkmaz re-constructs a city gone past its best-before date using expired film and a few stories from daily life in his work, titled Stain (Leke).
The final artist in the exibition is Mehveş Lelic. The emerging artist explores the relationship between the domestic interior and the exterior, as well as the imagination of time. Using mirror reflections and compositing, she blurs the limits of domestic space, which is often preconceived to be a feminine ideal, and links it to greater concepts and realities beyond.
Istanbul Photo Gallery takes place as a gallery in FotoIstanbul 2016 with Limited Exhibition.
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For more information, check out the official gallery page or event page.
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:30 – 19:00
Contact: Sennur Çevik Onan
+90 530 952 79 73 / +90 212 237 36 52
basin@istanbul-fotografgalerisi.com
All images courtesy of the gallery. Featured image by Stanko Abadzic.
Katip Mustafa Çelebi Mah. Tel Sokak N:8/1 – Beyoğlu
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