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TAYFUN ERDOĞMUŞ

Galeri Nev İstanbul
09.11.2011 — 14.01.2012
In his works, created without using any paint, the artist eternally entraps natural materials such as dried flowers, leaves, thread, and rice paper onto a canvas surface coated with gold leaf, using acrylic medium. Defying the contemporary obsession with speed and the eagerness for rapid production in today's art scene, Tayfun Erdoğmuş rebels against prevailing trends with works that are the result of a patient, labor-intensive process that spans years.Zeynep Sayın, who wrote a text for the catalog accompanying the exhibition, describes these works as follows:

“The canvases were like sarcophagi that, if opened, would absorb light, become mossy and sprout within themselves; like a sarcophagus interior, their boundaries were defined. The light gilded onto thick linen oxidizes, and the flowers—applied with grids, schemes, craftsmanship, patience, and without complaint—are layered with a kind of meditative effect: the technique infuses itself into the technical result. Coated layer upon layer with varnish, sealed with silicone, and given the impression of being pressed by hot plastic printing, the canvas becomes matte and impermeable. The amber-like dried flowers bury their own light, their own past within themselves.”


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