The solo exhibition Inventory by the artist initiative Oddviz—comprising Erdal İnci, Çağrı Taşkın, and Serkan Kaptan—can be visited at Art On İstanbul from September 11 to October 20, 2018.
Oddviz continues its exploration of 3D imaging techniques with the Inventory series, which presents compositions created from street furniture, sculptures, and building façades in Istanbul, Berlin, Venice, and New York using photogrammetry. The digitally generated virtual installations are realized in the exhibition through diasec prints, video, and virtual reality media.
Drawing on the distinctive characteristics of each city, the artists focus on Kadıköy, Kreuzberg, Manhattan, and Venice. In Manhattan, the topography created by the grid-like streets and skyscrapers serves as a base for placing fire hydrants, mailboxes, and various public objects on pedestals, generating a previously unseen urban landscape.
In Berlin, the collective examines the façades of buildings in Kreuzberg—a cosmopolitan district inhabited by artists, students, and a large immigrant population—to reveal traces of an alternative urban profile left on the architecture.
In Venice, the artists focus on wells and fountains, interpreting these elements—significant in the city’s cultural history—through their relationship with water and the city’s canals.
Based in Kadıköy, the artists take inspiration from the dynamic and chaotic nature of constantly changing streets, stacking objects such as street bollards, an Ottoman fountain, and the district’s iconic bull statue in a random heap. These elements, often overlooked in the city’s daily rhythm, are documented and reinterpreted by Oddviz, transforming them into new compositions.
Using photogrammetry as a new media technique, the artists create 3D, photorealistic records of various objects and spaces, embedding the nature of the items and the spirit of the city into their compositional arrangements.
With the Inventory series, Oddviz preserves the traces left by humans and time on rapidly changing cities, presenting them in a curated visual archive that functions like an urban museum, reflecting the spirit of each city.
