VOLKAN DIYAROGLU
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VOLKAN DIYAROGLU
VOLKAN DIYAROGLU VOLKAN DIYAROGLU MEMORY AND BLOOD 14 March - 20 April 2014 PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION OF VOLKAN DIYAROGLU FOREWORD MEMORY AND BLOOD Published by Element Art Space Pte Ltd © 2014, Element Art Space, Singapore DIRECTOR Aniela Rahardja Raffles Hotel Arcade 328 North Bridge Road #02-13 Singapore 188719 T +65 6883 2001 F +65 6883 2707 E info@elementartspace.com www.elementartspace.com GALLERY ADMINISTRATOR Stephanie Seet Ying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form of any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without prior permission of the copyright holder. Copyright of artwork images belong to Element Art Space and their respective artist, and essays to the respective authors. Dimension of works are given in centimeters, height x length Cover Image: Volkan Diyaroglu, Your Bloody, My Memory, mixed media on canvas, 156 x 153 cm, 2014 ARTIST Volkan Diyaroglu CURATOR Nilo Casares GALLERY ASSISTANT Tuti Nur Insyirah GRAPHIC DESIGNER Stephanie Seet Ying PHOTOGRAPHER Volkan Diyaroglu Element Art Space is pleased to be the first gallery in Singapore to present a solo exhibition of a Turkish artist by showing the promising talent of Volkan Diyaroglu. Many people have forgotten that Turkey is in fact located in Asia Minor, more precisely in Western Asia, and holds one of the oldest, richest and most diverse history in the world. Its culture today reflects remnants from its prehistoric Anatolia combined with Ottoman and Western culture traditions which results in a “modern” Western state that still maintains traditional religious and historical values. Their influence has spread all the way to Greater Asia and is easily relatable to the audience in South East Asia. Diyaroglu’s experimental and spontaneous paintings are informed by the history of art and recall gestural work of Abstract Expressionists painters such as Jackson Pollock. The title of the exhibition, Blood and Memory, references Greco-Roman cultures from his birthplace on the shores of the Black Sea and alludes to the divergence between the artist’s personal memories and how they are revealed through his work. With this exhibition, we aim to present a new ‘Asian’ perspective on memory and time personified through Memory. Aniela Rahardja Director of Element Art Space TRANSLATOR Michelle Garcia 3 MEMORY AND BLOOD CURATED TRANSLATED BY NILO CASARES BY MICHELLE Asian artist Volkan Diyaroğlu was born on the shores of the Black Sea, a sea sailed thousands of times by the kinsmen of the poet Hesiod, who bequeathed to us the knowledge of what in the beginning was Chaos, Chaos that was subjected to the ordering of Time, whose lovechild and incestuous mother of the Muses of all arts is Mnemosyne, the personification of Memory. The clean origin of Memory says a lot to her credit, yet it is her genesis from an incestuous relationship (remember that the Muses are the daughters of Mnemosyne and her father, Zeus, who visited her every night for nine nights) that helps us better understand the nature of the arts; that is why all is valid in art; everything, as long as the result warrants it; we are not concerned with the processes, the media or the materials used to forge the work, if I can feel her in my gut, if she moves inside me and chooses to reside there for a spell. GARCIA is a corporeal sort of painting; because if he painted with his hands, he would do so on an easel and the result would be completely different, and most importantly, it would take away the impetus to transfer the impression to his mind; it being a painting that is limited by blinders (the blinders of his shoes), it is unwittingly transformed into a tryst on canvas, revealing traces, forms, gestures, randomness, findings, geometries and the superposition of things that seem to have stuck to his hands, drenched as they are in wet paint. He paints so quickly that the Memory has no time to dry, and thus it all sticks; whatever he happens or stumbles upon or steps on as he moves back and forth to get it all ready. He runs through the studio, coming and going, in an attempt to escape those unruly feet that, while limiting his vision, do not impede him from continuing to think from a head that is unaware of where it is. In the beginning there was Chaos. In the case of painter , this is taken to an extreme, as his painting is absolutely corporal and unmeditated, so much so that we might say that he paints with his feet, because he always faces the canvas from a zenithal perspective (from Olympus, according to the tradition from whence he derives), and everything that passes through his head is limited by strict margins (order) imposed by his feet. This painting with his feet 4 In the beginning was everything inside his head? But where? He thinks. He comes and goes through space; he climbs and falls through his ideas; he remembers, projects, revises, attempts. He traces geometries from the same space that is his body, yearning to impose his presence by presenting himself in solid form, as a hexahedron, imposing, as if it were an architectural mass (architecture is the strict extension of our body, and the attempt to organise nature, from inside our head, according to the laws of man); but the head returns to the beginning and wants to take sides. Fine, he lets it reckon for a while. Order is imposed and pathways are gradually established to reach the end of the painting, because this painter, like all painters, aims to finish the painting at all cost, even through sweat and blood, spilt on the canvas, if it comes to that. At that moment the head reaches an agreement with the rest of his body and allows the blood flow to sort everything out, but of course, once everything seemed to be back in place, he discovers that blood is Chaos in the strictest form; back to the dialectic, in the presence of which there is no solution, as many of the paintings which we will encounter here, each of them cosmic (product of the cosmogony that they attempt to describe) have constructed a chaosmic hemisphere that emerges with a tremendous force from the painting, because (the painter thinks on the inside) if Memory now resides only inside our computers, in its circuit boards, outside is chaos, and only one response of resistance can be had: against the stamped (printed), the unique (painting) and original (cosmic). (his followers can trace the passages of his artistic itinerary in many of the paintings on exhibition here and revisit very significant moments in his art). Testimony, as the receiver of the objects that wander around his studio, a record of the precise moment in which the paintings were created, because painting is timeless, but the things imposed on canvas are from the exact Time when they were cast onto it and attempt to serve as an anchor to reality and proclaim that in the midst of so much Chaos, a door can exist that helps us transcend it. In the end, however, it all turns into blood spurting from the brushes of an artist through whom litres upon litres of paint flow, leaving the cosmic in ruins; all by following a strict regimen of painting with his feet so that his hands do not govern his head. And thus, without making heads or tails of it, he inaugurates chaosmic painting. Thus the painting presented here, in appearance, is both Memory and testimony. Memory, when it calls up the very history of the author’s own trajectory, through the introduction of remnants of his past work 5 6 I Am Dead, I Lost My Memory Stick Formatracy mixed media on canvas, 270 x 222 cm, 2014 mixed media on canvas, 270 x 206 cm, 2014 7 8 Be Happy or Die Your Bloody, My Memory mixed media on canvas, 270 x 222 cm, 2013 mixed media on canvas, 156 x 153 cm, 2014 9 Your Memory, My Blood mixed media on canvas, 150 x 158 cm, 2014 (Right) Close up: Your Memory, My Blood 10 Duckrabbit As Cosmos mixed media on canvas, 176 x 156 cm, 2014 (Left) Closeup: Duckrabbit As Cosmos 13 Memory and Blood mixed media on canvas, 156 x 147 cm, 2014 (Right) Close up: Memory and Blood 14 Blood mixed media on canvas, 153 x 196 cm, 2014 16 My Look, Your Regard mixed media on canvas, 160 x 145 cm, 2014 17 18 Beautiful Amnesia Garden of Forgetfulness mixed media on canvas, 156 x 152 cm, 2014 mixed media on canvas, 156 x 150 cm, 2014 19 20 Civil More Than A Virgin Another Happy End mixed media on canvas, 160 x 152 cm, 2014 mixed media on canvas, 156 x 152 cm, 2014 21 VOLKAN DIYAROGLU Born in 1982, Istanbul, Turkey Currently lives and works in Valencia, Spain EDUCATION Faculty of Fine Arts, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENCES 1996-2002 Tefken Holding Scholarship, Turkey 2002-2003 Promoe, fine arts Faculty of UPV San Carlos, Valencia, Spain 2003-2004 Promoe, fine arts Faculty of UPV San Carlos, Valencia, Spain 2006-2007 Residence Abbaye de Maubuisson, Val-d’Oise, France 2007-2008 Residence in Cite International des Arts, Paris, France 2008 Scholarship, The National Museum of George Enescu, “Transfer Project”, Tescani, Romania 2009 Residence in Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 “Memory and Blood”, Element Art Space, Singapore 2013 “Cutfingerism”, Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul, Turkey 2010 “Contemporary Istanbul 2010 Art Fair”, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey “Hoy Algo Mal Pasa En El Acuario”, Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal “Wormholes”, AR / Contemporary Gallery, Milano, Italy 2009 “Seeking The Paradises”, the project of cultural season of Turkey in France, Galerie Celal, Paris, France Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal 2008 Ceet Fondation, Madrid, Spain “Never_Intim”, Arsloca, Gandia, Valencia, Spain 2007 “Mi Vertigo”, Galeria Edgar Neville, Valencia, Spain “Zigzagm”, Eroa, Cergy, France “Delik”, Forja Arte Contemporaneo, La Sala Naranja,Valencia, Spain “Decalages”, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Val-d’oise, France (TRAM Paris/Ile-de-France Project 2007 “Hospitalités”) 2006 “For the Myopics”, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey 2004 “Post Karaoke is Higienic”, La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain 2003 Kitsch International Artediverso “Introduction of Post Karaoke for the Adults”, Valencia, Spain VIII Istanbul Biennial official paralel event, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey 2002 Fine arts faculty of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 “Connection”, Bozlu Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey “Sustratos”, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno(IVAM), Valencia, Spain “Pluralistic, ironic, poetic”, PAPKO Art Collection / Oner Kocabeyoglu, The Sofa Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey “Alienation / Estrangement”, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey “Gabinete de Hygiene”, Espacio V, Valencia, Spain 2012 “Contemporary Istanbul 2012”, Istanbul, Turkey “Muestra Internacional de Musica y Audiovisuales Avanzados(MIMAA)”, La Rambleta, Valencia, Spain “Kreuz-Kassel Zwei”, Kreuzberg Pavillon, 100 days in Kassel, Kassel, Germany “Artbosphorus 2012 Contemporary Art Fair”, Istanbul, Turkey 22 2011 “21st International Istanbul Art Fair - Artist 2011”, Istanbul, Turkey “1st Istanbul Summer Exhibition”, Antrepo 5, Istanbul, Turkey “Contemporary Turkish Art Auction”, Sotheby’s, London, UK 2010 “7 Billionth Person Project”, The Parachute Factory Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Ar / Contemporary Gallery, Milan, Italy “The Power of the Dynamism”, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey 2009 “Contemporary and Modern Works”, Ar / Contemporary Gallery, Milan, Italy “XV International Biennial of Cerveira”, Portugal “Horaley”, Mtaar – G.A.F. , Istanbul, Turkey “Caos vs. Ordine”, Ar / Contemporary Gallery, Milan, Italy “In search of lost reality: nevgeneration”, Galeri Nev, Ankara, Turkey “Transfer”, Sub-Carturesti Art Gallery, George Enescu National Museum Project, Bucarest, Romania “Al Bastakiya Art Fair”, Saatchi Gallery, Dubai, Emirates “Beautiful Freak”, Forja Arte Contemporanea, Valencia, Spain “Doga-Ask-Su”, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey “Contemporary 1-2009”, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey 2008 XXXV Bancaja Painting, Sculpture, Digital Art Prize Exhibition, Centro cultural de la Asuncion, Albacete, Spain SLICK PARIS 2008 Art Fair, with the Focus Gallery Dubai, Paris, France XXXV Bancaja Painting, Sculpture, Digital Art Prize Exhibition, IVAM, Valencia, Spain 2006 “DESAFIOS”, Kanazawa Modern Art Museum, Kazanawa Citizen’s Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan “Artistanbul 2006” International Contemporary Art Fair of Istanbul, Galeri Binyil, Istanbul, Turkey “Generacion Vulture”, Vulture Magazine organization, Feria de Julio, Valencia, Spain “Art in Evolution”, Espacio Carmen, Antiguo convento Mosén Sorell”, Valencia, Spain “O eres tu john wayne o lo soy yo”, La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain 2005 Observatori 2005 - VI International artistic investigation festival of Valencia in the museum of Principe Felipe, Ciudad de las artes y ciencias (Sala Arqueria, permanent exhibition) “International Fine Arts Congress”, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain “Post Patetic”, La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain 2004 “En el margen de Turia”, Riba-roja art festival, Valencia, Spain 2003 Fons d’art of UPV, Valencia, Spain 2002 Fine arts faculty of mimar sinan University Istanbul, Turkey 2001 Istanbul State Gallery (Istanbul Devlet Guzel sanatlar Galerisi “atolye 4” Istanbul, Turkey 2000 Museum of fine arts of istanbul “ipek-ahmet merey resim yarismasi” Istanbul, Turkey AWARD 2008 XXXV Bancaja Painting, Sculpture, Digital Art Prize, Spain “Next Star Artist Competition”, Finalist, Australia COLLECTIONS Coca-Cola Foundation Bancaja Foundation, Spain Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Turkey Enka Collection, Turkey National Museum of George Enescu, Romania PAPKO Art Collection/ Oner Kocabeoglu, Turkey OTHER EVENTS 2001 “Fire the Family”, Atolye 4, Istanbul, Turkey 2002 “Cleaning I”, The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey 2003 “Painting by the Car”, Istanbul, Turkey 2003 “Painting by the Car”, Calatrava Street, Valencia, Spain 2004 Actuation in “Kitsch Kitchen” (SOUP I), Valencia, Spain 2006 “Artist of the Month”, Vulture Magazine, 31st Edition, February 2006 2006 Selection for an individual exhibition for Edgar Neville Gallery 2007 “Clipstation”, Multimedia exhibition in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia) 2007 “Porte Ouverte”, Paris, France 2013 Maronda, “La Orfebrería Según los Místicos”, Album Cover, Spain PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2013 Ali Deniz Uslu, “The Civilization is a Censorship”, 46 Magazine, Skull Edition, Turkey, November/December 2013. Nilo Casares, IVAM, “Sustratos”, Spain, 2013. Ali Deniz Uslu, Cumhuriyet Pazar, “The Civilization is a Censorship”, Turkey, September 22, 2013, 1-2. Mehmet Erguven, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, “Volkan Diyaroglu or to set up the imagination”, Turkey, 2013. Gulseli Inal, “Alternative I / Alternative aesthetic”, Yapi Magazine, No. 377, Turkey, April 2013. 2012 Michael Organ, “Tuck Magazine”, December 2012 2010 “Bulletin Of Clinical Psychopharmacology”, Volume 20, Number 4, Turkey, Decem ber 2010. Art-core.tv, Interview, December 2010. Lucien de Guise, “Golder Horn of Plenty”, Asian Art Newspaper, May 2010. Ginevra Bria, “Wormholes”, Exibart, Italy, April 08, 2010. Francesco Clerici, “Wormholes”, Italy, February 01, 2010. 2009 Antena 3 Neox TV, “Meeting Point” programme, interview, Spain, November 22, 2009. Nicholas Forrest, The Visual Artbeat Magazine, “The Art of Volkan Diyaroglu”, Austria, September 2009. Baris Acar, Artist Actual, “In the Search of the Lost Reality”, Turkey, July-August 2009, 32. Tendencias Fashion Magazine, Spain, June 2009, No. 148, 103. 2008 Mihrisah Safa, Star Newspaper, Turkey, August 03, 2008, 17. Mihrisah Safa, Star Kibris Newspaper, Cyprus, August 06, 2008. “El Arte del futuro se da cita en el IVAM”, El Mundo Newspaper, Spain July 25, 2008. “El turco Diyaroglu y el ucranio Aljoscha, premios Bancaja”, El País Newspaper, Spain, July 25, 2008. “L’IVAM acull els premis Bancaixa”, Levante Newspaper, Spain, July 25, 2008. “Tintes Universales en el XXXV Premio Bancaja de Arte”, Spain, ABC Newspaper, July 25, 2008. Barbara Steffen, Director of Contemporary Art of the Albertina Museum of Vienna, Austria, XXXV Premio Bancaja de Pintura, Escultura y Arte Digital Prize and inter view with Volkan Diyaroglu, Spain, 2008. Yahoo NEWS Spain, “El IVAM toma el pulso a las tendencias del arte internacional...” July 24, 2008. VRV Gallery, Interview with Volkan Diyaroglu, Canada, 2008. Nicholas Forrest, “Turkish Artist Volkan Diyaroglu”, Artmarketblog, 2008. Toni Calderon, Interview, Australia, May 28, 2008. Alix Rule, “Saatchi Online Top 10 Chosen By Alix Rule”, Saatchi Online Magazine Artiz Magazine, Issue:2, publication of own article, Turkey Nicholas Forrest, “VOLKAN DIYAROGLU: Saatchi Online Critic’s Choice By Nicholas Forrest”, The Saatchi Gallery, April 08, 2008 Volkan Diyaroglu, Artiz Magazine, Issue:1, Turkey, 2008. TVE2 Spanish national television, “Metropolis” programme, publication and inter view, Spain, February 03, 2008. JHON MAGAZINE, 20th Issue, France, 2008. 2007 Christian Parra-Duhalde, “Vértigos globales,” Levante Newspaper, Posdata, Spain, December 07, 2007. Toni Calderon, “Mi Vertigo: Volkan Diyaroglu.Mestizaje y Sincretismo,” Spain, 2007. Connaissance des Arts Magazine Hospitalites, No:648, April 2007, page number 32, France Paris/ile de france, Museums & Monuments, publication of the work, France The newspaper Sabah, 16th April 2007, (First Page), Publication of the work, Turkey Sortir Magazine, Cergy-Pontoise, Issue: 171, March 2007 France Tram Brochure, Hospitalites, brochure, text of Caroline Coll-Seror, France Tram Brochure, January-April 2007, Publication of the work, France Sortir Magazine, Spectacles Rhône-Alpes, Issue: 20, April-June 2007, France. EVENE_Artists Celebres, France “The Saatchi Gallery’s Top 10 Chosen By Rebecca Wilson” of Rebecca Wilson, editor of the Your Gallery Magazine, 2007. Toni Calderon, Book of Delik exhibition, Grupo Forja, Spain, 2007. Jose Mir, Book of Delik, Grupo Forja, Spain, 2007. Levante newspaper, Mercalevante, Valencia, Spain, 2007. UPV TV, Ven y Veras progragmme, Valencia, Spain, May 07, 2007. Artvisit 2, Turkey 2006 Artistanbul, Turkey, 2006. Hürriyet, Kelebek, Turkey, June 08, 2006. Sabah Newspaper, Günaydın, Turkey, June 17, 2006. Toni Calderón, Para los myopes, Istanbul, Turkey: Gallery Binyil, 2006 Levante Newspaper, Valencia, Spain, April 04, 2006. Vulture Magazine, Issue: 31, Spain, February 2006. 2005 Toni Calderon, Observatori, Valencia, Spain, 2005. 23 NILO CASARES Born in 1963, A Coruña, Spain http://comisario.net Nilo Casares, a polygraph, newspaper contributor, occasional researcher in the area of aesthetics and art theory, art criticcurator, digital and public art promoter, coordinator and director of cultural activities, conference presenter, consultant and artistic adviser (curating a large range of art exhibits throughout Argentina, Chile, Canada, South Korea, Denmark, Spain, United States, Finland, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden and Venezuela). Director of Konceptkonstmuseum, Valencia, Spain Founder of S + O + C (interdisciplinary urban planning office), Valencia, Spain and Rotterdam, Netherlands Founder of Frescos & Salados, Lda. (cultural nonprofit association for the promotion of art) Valencia, Spain) Founder of Lavandería Fundació (private cultural foundation), Barcelona, Spain Founder of La Cor.poració (cultural association for the promotion of public art), Valencia, Spain Founder of Memòria Industrial Project for the defense of the industrial architectural heritage, Valencia, Spain Member of the Artificialia (associazione culturale per la tutela e sviluppo dell’arte elettronica), Pescara, Italy Member of the International Advisory Board of rural.scapes - laboratório em residência, Fazenda Santa Teresa, São José do Barreiro, Vale do Paraíba, Brazil Promoter, Founder and Curator of red(e).ib (http://red-e-ib.net) Member of EX, Experimental Electronic Art (cultural association nonprofit electronic and experimental art), Madrid, Spain Member of the Experts Board of MACE (Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza), Ibiza, Spain Author of the books netart_latino database —with Giselle Beigelman, Laura Baigorri, Brian Mackern, Lila Pagola and Gustavo Romano. Edition: Nilo Casares. MEIAC. Badajoz, Spain. 2010. Del net.art al web-art 2.0. Institució Alfons el Magnánim. Valencia, Spain. 2009. De memoria (with Francis Naranjo). Ediciones/Metales Pesados. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2009. Informe. Gas Editions. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2007. Casa de Citas/House of Words. Gran Canaria Espacio Digital. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2006. La restauración del significado. Arte, otra vez. Institució Alfons el Magnánim. Valencia, Spain. 2004. niuistmos ou labirinto. çopyright. pensamento, crítica e criação em galego-português. no. 27. A Coruña, Spain. 1997. Raffles Hotel Arcade 328 North Bridge Road #02-13 Singapore 188719 T +65 6883 2001 F +65 6883 2707 E info@elementartspace.com www.elementartspace.com 24