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 2009-09-10 _ 2009-10-31
Pi Artworks will be hosting Irfan
Onurmen’s “PANIC” until October 31st 2009. Organized as a side event
to 11th Istanbul Biennial, “PANIC” focuses on the contemporary living
that triggers the feeling of Panic.
Irfan Onurmen is one
of the outstanding representative of contemporary turkish art. He has
shown an increasing presence in many of the major international art
markets last years. He is represented by Pi Artworks since 2000 and has
been the primary artist of the gallery.
Living and working in
Istanbul, during mid 80s Onurmen got known for his canvases of
stereotypes of Turkish people, he started working with different
materials as well as painting early 90s. He has created series he
named as “Pentulle” and “ Sculptulle” from the fabric tulle. A
transparent fabric mainly used for wedding gowns. Late nineties he has
introduced relief and sculptures from newspapers that he called Achieve
Series.
“PANIC” is the sixth one of these Achieve series.
Onurmen has done one big installation from newspapers in the middle of
the main gallery. Piece consists of more than 50 small newspaper works
mounted in to each other like an electrical circuit.
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Being late, being alone, getting stuck in traffic, swine flu, aids,
getting laid off, getting caught while cheating, hygiene, being in the
middle of a crowd, loosing nature gradually, sexual repression, the
thread on war, terror, the necessity of consumption... feelings like
these leads us into PANIC. PANIC is one the most typical features of
today’s people.
Today, in an environment where Panic is
sometimes created consciously, contemporary living, urbanization, and
developing technologies trigger the psychology of Panic in people. My
works at my upcoming show underlines all these elements that corrupts
the nature of man” Irfan Onurmen, Istanbul 2009
Onurmen
observes and archives society over newspapers, magazines and TV
visuals. In his latest show PANIC he uses newspapers to materialize
media. Panic will run until 31st of October at t Pi Artworks gallery 1
and 2. Everyday except Sundays between 10:30 – 19:30
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