5 Şubat 2016 Cuma

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Bodrum, Turgutreis Fenerburnu 

İzmir, Basmane

Ayvalık, Salihleraltı

Ayvalık, Badavut Plajı

Ayvalık, Badavut Plajı

Ayvalık, Salihleraltı

Ayvalık, Salihleraltı

12 Ocak 2016 Salı


But nothing's as hard to do

As just saying goodbye...










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23 Haziran 2015 Salı

6 Mart 2015 Cuma

DADA - Mutfak Bıçağıyla Kes ! Kuad Galeri'ye Bekliyoruz !

CUT WITH THE DADA KITCHEN KNIFE…

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“CUT WITH THE DADA KITCHEN KNIFE…”
Exhibition for 100th Year of DADA

18 March – 2 May 2015

With the participation of:
Esra Carus; Ahmet Vehbi Doğramacı; Fırat Engin; Özge Enginöz; Erol Eskici; Eda Gecikmez; Murat Gök ; Şakir Gökçebağ Hakan Gürsoytrak; Naci Güneş Güven; Yahya M.Madra; Meltem Sırtıkara;
Esin Turan and Eric Andersen; Canan Beykal
 The exhibition is presented with a reference to the title “Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic”1919 by Hannah Höch, who is the most famous female artist of Dadaist art movement. This collage was critiquing the Weimar administration.
Dada movement can be considered as the basic background of today’s contemporary art’s concepts and aesthetics. The Dadaist art movement was an interdisciplinary interaction and a collaboration tool, for all the artists and the intellectuals of the 1st WW era. We actually need to underline the fact that, it was an anti-war movement, between 1915-1923. Especially containing statements, which are against the public’s traditional understanding of war, which sanctifies war or perceiving it as inevitable. Because of these, produced with different content, shape and aesthetics, Dada as a movement, still continues to try answering the war status.
 Dada, appeared in the middle of the war in 1916 and was seen as a comprehensive manifest for the European spirit. Without having any certain answers, it was somehow satisfying for the people who were at the edge of Modernism, with all the pre-war questioning of the value of human being, both as an individual and social. The war, afterwards, left an emptiness, even wiping away all those satisfactions. Dada, aspired to also erase the left-over utopias, as if wanting to convulse all the social, ethical and aesthetical values. The most important example of these, was to convert art from being a national culture component, into a metropolis phenomenon, based on industrial society’s experimentalism.
Collages, Assembles, Paintings with mixed materials, Typographic Installations, Photomontages; Mechano-Dada, Meta-Machines, Mechanic Mannequins, Happenings (Performances) in Public Spaces.
Dada, supporting an open view to all forms of art, we can see all sorts of productions in literature, music, painting, sculpture, performance, dancing and rhetoric. In short; it is interdisciplinary in today’s saying. Randomness is an important element in Dada. It is distinctive in writing, music and painting productions. Dada is also based on documenting. Magazines, posters, brochures, catalogues, flyers, letters, postcards, notes and drafts are the inventions and ways of spreading in Dada. As it is today, Dada was the expression of the modern city’s energy and dynamism, using art. It was centered in Zurich, Berlin, Paris, New York, Hannover, Köln and Amsterdam. We witness all these characters in contemporary art. Dada, was at its peak in 1920 at the Dada Fair in Berlin and historically ended in 1923; hence it’s implications, constitutes the building blocks and the base of the contemporary art.
 In the period of 2013-2014, Kuad Gallery organized an exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of John Cage and later “Unhappy Ready-Made” which was an allusion to the 100th year of Marcel Duchamp’s statement of “Ready-Made”. Consequently, with this exhibition, Kuad Gallery continues its presentations in reference to the 20th century art movements.

Beral Madra

17 Şubat 2015 Salı

"Neo - Neon" … Bekliyoruz ...



NEO-NEON

19 Şubat - 19 Nisan 2015

Zafer Akşit
M. Sefa Çakır (Acil Sanat)
Tuğçe Çubukçuoğlu
Fırat Engin
Şifa Girinci
Ardan Özmenoğlu
Ali Emir Tapan
Anıl Taşezen (Ayna)
Mehmet Ali Uysal
Saliha Yılmaz

Plato Sanat, 19 Şubat - 19 Nisan 2015 tarihleri arasında Neo–Neonsergisine ev sahipliği yapıyor.

Sergi, günümüz sanatçılarının neon'u çağdaş sanatta nasıl yorumladıklarına dair bir öngörü sunmaktadır. 20.yy'ın başından beri neon ışıkları, gecelerimizi aydınlatıp karanlıkta dikkatimizi çekiyorlar. Özellikle Amerikan mega şehirlerinde ticari reklam ve iletişim amaçlı kullanılan neonlar, gece hayatı, modern tüketim ve batı şehirciliğinin hızlı ritmini temsil eden semboller oldular. 1980'lerde ise neon, başka teknolojiler ve tekniklerle kullanılmaya başlandı. Bugün şehir matrislerinden neredeyse tamamen silinmiş olan neon adeta çağdışı ve melankolik bir karaktere bürünmüş durumda. 20.yy'ın güçlü ve modern metropol simgeleri iken bugün adeta kendi tarihine referans verir durumda. Çağdaş sanat disiplini içinde ise halen popülerliğini koruyan bir iletişim aracı.

Plato Sanat’taki serginin mekansal tasarımı, alternatif bir küratöryel model olarak bu kez ‘beyaz kübü’ ‘siyah’a dönüştüren bir öneri sunmaktadır. Sergi, geceyi andıran karanlık ve labirentimsi mekan içinde dolaşırken izleyicinin, parlak neon ışıklarıyla aydınlatılmış bu şaşırtıcı ve güzel eserleri keşfetmesini hedeflemektedir.

Küratör: Marcus Graf


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