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| Volkan Diyaroglu, “Your Bloody, My Memory”, mixed media on canvas, 156x153 cm, 2014 © Element Art Space. |
Element
Art Space is pleased to announce and be the first gallery in Singapore to
present a solo exhibition of a Turkish artist. The show, “Blood and Memory”, by
Volkan Diyaroglu will consist of 13 paintings and be on view from 14 March - 20
April 2014.
Many
people have forgotten that Turkey is in fact located in Asia Minor, more
precisely in Western Asia, and holds one of the oldest, richest and most diverse
history in the world. Its culture today reflects remnants from its prehistoric Anatolia
combined with Ottoman and Western culture traditions which results in a “modern”
Western state that still maintains traditional religious and historical values.
Their influence has spread all the way to Greater Asia and is easily relatable
to the audience in South East Asia.
The
title of the exhibition, “Blood and Memory”, references Greco-Roman cultures
from his birthplace on the shores of the Black Sea and alludes to the
divergence between the artist’s personal memories and how they are revealed
through his work. Memory, when it calls up the very history of the artist’s own
trajectory, through the introduction of remnants of his past work (his
followers can trace the passages of his artistic itinerary in many of the
paintings on exhibition here and revisit very significant moments in his art).
It is also a testimony because the paintings are timeless, but things imposed
on canvas are form the exact time when they were cast onto it and attempt to serve
as an anchor to reality and proclaim that in the midst of so much chaos, a door
can exist that helps us transcend it. In the end, however, it all turns
into
blood spurting from the brushes of an artist through whom litres upon litres of
paint flow, leaving the cosmic in ruins.
The
exhibition “Blood and Memory” consists of 13 paintings, and it will run until
April 20, 2014.
VOLKAN
DIYAROGLU
Volkan
Diyaroglu (b. 1982, Turkey) received his education from Mimar Sinan University
and San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Diyaroglu has had solo exhibitions in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and
received scholarships and artist residencies in Europe. His works can be found
in major collections such as the Coca Cola Foundation, The Elgiz Museum of
Contemporary Art (Turkey), National Museum of George Enescu (Romania) and more.
Element
Art Space
The
gallery first opened in October 2009 under the mentorship of Chua Soobin–one of
the most prominent gallerists in South East Asia and was the first to introduce
avant-garde Chinese art to the region. Initially named S.Bin Art Plus, the gallery
changed its name to Element Art Space in 2011. Drawing from Soobin’s more than
20 years of experience in the
art
industry, the gallery’s aim remains consistent: to promote great and innovative
artists from South East Asia and provide exchange and dialogue with artists,
galleries and collectors from throughout the world. The gallery also offers residencies
to a highly selected number of emerging artists from the region. The gallery’s
inaugural exhibition, “Harmony,” featured the works of 33 painters and
sculptors from throughout the world, many of which have never been displayed to
the Singaporean public before--marble sculpture by Fernando Botero and
gold-plated sculpture by Marc Quinn just to name a few. Following this grand
entrance to the Singapore art scene, the gallery continues to be the advocate
for compelling and challenging contemporary work by today’s most exciting
emerging and mid-career artists.
Element
Art Space
Raffles
Hotel Arcade, 328 North Bridge Road #02-13, Singapore 188719
Tel:
+65 6883 2001 Fax: +65 6883 2707
Email:
stephanie@elementartspace.com
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