Vision Art Platforms latest show revolves around circle of life | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah

Prominent Istanbul gallery Vision Art Platform is set to debut its latest online exhibition bringing together four prominent artists from the Turkish art scene and curating a show tied together by the theme of the cycle of life. The "Beyond Vision" exhibition can be visited from April 15 to May 15.

The exhibition, which has been prepared to be experienced digitally and in 3D format, will be the gallery's first show since moving to its new space in the Akaretler neighborhood in the city's Beikta district. The gallery will also take part in Senkron, an art event consisting of exhibitions that will be held simultaneously and focusing on video art, with this show taking place April 15 - 30. The artists Gkhan Balkan, Mehmet t, zgn ahin and Sabo Akda, also known as SABO, will present their works of art of various forms to viewers.

The show comprises of t's paintings created using the technique of burning paper, ahins videos titled Mterek Alanda Kusursuz Tekrar (Flawless Repetition in the Common Field) and oil paintings, SABOs series of paintings titled Magus, which were inspired by English novelist John Fowles as well as Balkans ultraviolet (UV) printings on paper that examine culture and nature through a post-human perspective, establishing a multilingual narrative in the exhibition. This methodological diversity in the exhibition reaches a conceptual unity while questioning the relationship of the visible with the fluid being.

Beyond Vision questions the possibilities of the image in making flow, repetition, transformation and life cycle visible to the eyes. While the idea of this cycle is placed in an ontological context in ts works, it finds its roots in an urban depth in ahins pieces. It appears with its ecological aspects in Balkans printings and is blended with literary perspective in SABOs creation.

Painting with the marks left by matches on paper, t actually lets the fire and air create the artwork. Thus, he places the mastery of nature against the representation traditions of classical art. The debate on the contradiction of culture and nature is also central to Balkan's work. The sense of rhythm felt in his compositions is also echoed in ahin's works. ahin captures the geometrical order and perhaps the peace hidden in the chaotic urban life in kaleidoscopic images and isolated moments. SABO focuses on an experience of vision where isolation sets the boundaries between delusions and reality. In his work, while the times of the hero of the novel, the writer and the painter create different layers, traces that cover each other are reflected on the canvas.

Participating in Beyond Vision from different routes, these four artists seem to be after a meaning hidden in coincidence, flow and repetition. While this meaning escapes as it is caught, like a stain on the retina, the paths of the artists intersect beyond what is seen.

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