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A touch of philosophy in drawings
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News | 10/31/2010 | Hatice Utkan
The exhibition “Place we have been… Time we have passed by…” focuses on the philosophical aspects of life and denotes the land and people in relation to life.
The exhibition “Place we have been… Time we have passed by…” focuses on the philosophical aspects of life and denotes the land and people in relation to life.
Ekrem Kahraman, an artist who also writes about art and culture aims to explore philosophy in his drawings.
Postmodernists have declared that modernism has come to an end and that they have constructed their argument for the future on top of this collapse.
Today, this very postmodernism itself, which was put forward as last century’s most basic argument and stated as an ideological and cultural claim, has also been obstructed.
Due to “the great narrative period having ended,” the common utopia of mankind has been stultified. Now, our world is struggling desperately in a profound crisis.
Despite so many loud-voiced, so-called philosophical assertions and glittering mediatic images; real, prevailing, individual/social, political, economic, artistic, cultural arguments, philosophical, and ideological foundations have collapsed.
Not only Turkey but also the region that we are part of and the land we set foot on are no longer secure and auspicious enough despite all the innocence and a rousing energetic intent for humanity.
Now humanity is indisputably going through a much more dangerous and a greater tragedy than this moment that we endlessly protest.
Kahraman, who also writes articles on culture, art, art thought and other topics for philosophy and art reviews, treats today's world philosophically and structures his pictures based on this intellectual background.
The starting point of Kahraman, an artist who defines himself as “a fanciful farmer,” especially focuses on his own land, the Çukurova close to Adana and Anatolia, then the Middle East, and then the whole world...
In his pictures, the artist constructs content and forms that offer modern human allusions to the earth, the endless void of the sky, and the most natural motives belonging to the innocent era of the mankind. Like all true artists, at his own old land, he forms deep emptiness, solitude, endlessness, massive white clouds, small rocks, trees, grass, ordinary elements and new unique cultural/lingual images despite the crude nature of the art equipment he uses.
At the exhibition, which will be held by the Cep Art Gallery at The Marmara Pera between Oct. 21 and Nov. 21, very extensive and smaller works of the artist, most of which from 2010, will be on display.
In his new works as well, Kahraman traces a human content expanding from the familiar to the mysterious, from the real to the surreal, from the local to the universal and from the contemporary to the historical and the future.
Meanwhile, he also conveys his intellectual and artistic claims in a wise and heartily manner.
About Ekrem Kahraman
Kahraman graduated from the Art Department of Istanbul Institute of Education in 1971. After teaching at various secondary education institutions, he left teaching in 1989 to choose a professional artist career.
He actively took place in art organizations related with the field of plastic arts, writing theoretical articles on art, philosophy, and culture. His articles were published at journals such as Çekirdek Sanat, Sanat Çevresi, Türkiye’de Sanat, Genç Sanat, Cey Sanat, RH+Sanart, Sanatçının Atölyesi, Bosphorus Sanat Gazetesi and others.
He held over 70 national and international personal art exhibitions, participating in many joint exhibitions and international fairs. He has won 16 prizes and his pictures have appeared in many formal and private collections. Many books, catalogues, and brochures have been published about his art, while films have also been produced.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=a-touch-of-philosophy-in-drawings-2010-10-31
A touch of philosophy in drawings
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News | 10/31/2010 | Hatice Utkan
The exhibition “Place we have been… Time we have passed by…” focuses on the philosophical aspects of life and denotes the land and people in relation to life.
The exhibition “Place we have been… Time we have passed by…” focuses on the philosophical aspects of life and denotes the land and people in relation to life.
Ekrem Kahraman, an artist who also writes about art and culture aims to explore philosophy in his drawings.
Postmodernists have declared that modernism has come to an end and that they have constructed their argument for the future on top of this collapse.
Today, this very postmodernism itself, which was put forward as last century’s most basic argument and stated as an ideological and cultural claim, has also been obstructed.
Due to “the great narrative period having ended,” the common utopia of mankind has been stultified. Now, our world is struggling desperately in a profound crisis.
Despite so many loud-voiced, so-called philosophical assertions and glittering mediatic images; real, prevailing, individual/social, political, economic, artistic, cultural arguments, philosophical, and ideological foundations have collapsed.
Not only Turkey but also the region that we are part of and the land we set foot on are no longer secure and auspicious enough despite all the innocence and a rousing energetic intent for humanity.
Now humanity is indisputably going through a much more dangerous and a greater tragedy than this moment that we endlessly protest.
Kahraman, who also writes articles on culture, art, art thought and other topics for philosophy and art reviews, treats today's world philosophically and structures his pictures based on this intellectual background.
The starting point of Kahraman, an artist who defines himself as “a fanciful farmer,” especially focuses on his own land, the Çukurova close to Adana and Anatolia, then the Middle East, and then the whole world...
In his pictures, the artist constructs content and forms that offer modern human allusions to the earth, the endless void of the sky, and the most natural motives belonging to the innocent era of the mankind. Like all true artists, at his own old land, he forms deep emptiness, solitude, endlessness, massive white clouds, small rocks, trees, grass, ordinary elements and new unique cultural/lingual images despite the crude nature of the art equipment he uses.
At the exhibition, which will be held by the Cep Art Gallery at The Marmara Pera between Oct. 21 and Nov. 21, very extensive and smaller works of the artist, most of which from 2010, will be on display.
In his new works as well, Kahraman traces a human content expanding from the familiar to the mysterious, from the real to the surreal, from the local to the universal and from the contemporary to the historical and the future.
Meanwhile, he also conveys his intellectual and artistic claims in a wise and heartily manner.
About Ekrem Kahraman
Kahraman graduated from the Art Department of Istanbul Institute of Education in 1971. After teaching at various secondary education institutions, he left teaching in 1989 to choose a professional artist career.
He actively took place in art organizations related with the field of plastic arts, writing theoretical articles on art, philosophy, and culture. His articles were published at journals such as Çekirdek Sanat, Sanat Çevresi, Türkiye’de Sanat, Genç Sanat, Cey Sanat, RH+Sanart, Sanatçının Atölyesi, Bosphorus Sanat Gazetesi and others.
He held over 70 national and international personal art exhibitions, participating in many joint exhibitions and international fairs. He has won 16 prizes and his pictures have appeared in many formal and private collections. Many books, catalogues, and brochures have been published about his art, while films have also been produced.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=a-touch-of-philosophy-in-drawings-2010-10-31