The first solo exhibition of young contemporary artist Hüseyin Aksoylu, “Ağırlık,” opens on Saturday, September 15, 2012, at art ON the Gallery. Aksoylu’s works examine how the intellectual accumulation, knowledge, and experiences presented to us can limit our responses when interpreting what we live through. By establishing relationships—sometimes between objects, sometimes within themselves—he assigns new meanings through carefully constructed compositions, which can be visited at art ON the Gallery until October 15.
Born in 1984, Hüseyin Aksoylu graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in 2010. Using various techniques and media, he presents his first solo exhibition, “Ağırlık,” on Saturday, September 15. Alongside the detailed canvas works he creates within a specific narrative framework, the exhibition highlights video recordings of his individual performances.
While everyday objects form the central themes of the stories translated onto the canvas, the cycles of revival and destruction, mechanization, and the soul’s response to mechanization are embodied through flawless figures emerging from the soul’s movement.
Hüseyin Aksoylu explains his large-scale canvas constructions in his own words:
"The intellectual accumulation, knowledge, and experiences presented to us often produce classified or limited responses and solutions when interpreting a scene or a moment. In my works, I assign new meanings to objects, sometimes creating relationships between them, sometimes within myself. My deliberate choice of a single color helps to free objects from functional concepts, allowing me to develop a shared language that is more open and malleable. Within this system, I explore my perceptions and renunciations without fear of disappointment or mistakes."
Taking its name from the dense use of figures in his canvases, “Ağırlık” can be visited at art ON the Gallery from September 15 to October 15.
