Art On İstanbul, as part of its curatorial exhibition program, is hosting the second chapter of the Parça Bütün (“Part Whole”) exhibition. Featuring works by Guido Casaretto, Canan Dağdelen, Şakir Gökçebağ, Nuri Kuzucan, and Seçkin Pirim, the exhibition can be visited between September 4 and October 26, 2019.
The exhibition takes the part-whole relationship as its central theme, proposing an exploration and comparison of the layers of each work both conceptually and materially through a limited selection of examples. Guido Casaretto’s piece from the Calacatta Scarts series, reminiscent of block cubes extracted from marble quarries, examines the relationship between the artist’s mastery over the material and the art object itself. Canan Dağdelen, working with delicate and challenging ceramic material, contributes two works in which she separates and recomposes elements, exploring the possibilities of architectural forms. Nuri Kuzucan constructs layers on the painting surface reminiscent of architectural spaces, designing his work to allow interpretive possibilities; his Parça Bütün piece creates multiple spatial effects with a restrained color palette. Şakir Gökçebağ, with a minimalist approach, achieves painterly effects in his installations; for the exhibition, his work from the Reorientation series examines concepts of fullness and emptiness and the viewer’s role in completion through the reformation of a carpet. Seçkin Pirim’s new work, made from paper, explores abstract geometric forms where repeated units form a whole, presenting a system in which each unit exists independently yet reinforces its presence in relation to others.
The annually recurring Parça Bütün exhibition series investigates the unique characteristics of works through the differences and commonalities revealed by artists’ worldviews, approaches to artistic problems, and material practices. Accompanying the exhibition, a publication features works from various periods of the artists’ careers and interviews discussing their processes, shedding light on the evolution of their personal practices. Together with the exhibition, the publication aims to provide a critical framework for in-depth, multi-perspective analyses of artworks and to leave a lasting record for art history.
