BAP//Istanbul presents group exhibition Heimspiel 14

An exhibition by several gallery artists shown from January – February 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey.

HEIMSPIEL 14 I Artists of the Gallery
January – Febuary 2014
CURATED BY TARIK YOLERI

From JANUARY 16 until FEBRUARY 28, 2014, TARIK ERSIN YOLERI proudly presents „Heimspiel 14,“ an exhibition of gallery artists.

HEIMSPIEL 14 – A „home game“ – YOLERI will be showing paintings and sculptures from the gallery’s program of artists. The exhibition includes canvases by Tom Fleischhauer, Jörg Lohse, Megan Olson, Sebastian Schrader and Meike Zopf as well as sculptures by Hal Buckner, Ewerdt Hilgemann and Yasam Sasmazer.

JÖRG LOHSE „collects“ motifs of all kinds for his work: images and text, cropped compositions from glossy magazines, comic strips, fashion labels, music titles and sentence fragments torn from their context and pieced together to mean something else entirely. He divides the canvas into horizontal layers and fuses text and image to a reflection of what appears to be reality. In his paintings, motifs are dissolved more almost to the point of abstraction. Lohse’s work reflects an artificial aesthetic; he disassembles the mirage of the images‘ artificial world by „tearing it apart,“ working in the blurred margin between the figurative and abstract, between reality and illusion.

MEGAN OLSON’S abstract spray paintings are transparent, graceful structures that conjure a number of different associations. Flowing lines and signs run the length of the canvases, building layer upon layer of finely crafted layers. Their soft fragility is reminiscent of organic cell structures, allowing a glimpse into our innermost depths to bring the most fundamental level to light. Ornamental with their balanced, regular composition, they can be read almost like the artful loops of a calligraphic text, all the while maintaining the expressive spontaneity of a graffiti tag. Olson plays with these various graphic elements, associating with the origin of her interest and investigation of art, with Abstract Expressionism and photorealist botanical studies to a unique, new expression.

At the center of SEBASTIAN SCHRADER’S work is always the isolated, contemplative individual. Near life-sized figures occupy the foreground of his canvases in a usually ambiguous space, in various poses and situations, in the tension-filled space between the pause and reconsideration. Both the background of the scene and the object of the person’s musing remains a mystery. In a subtle way, the various attributes awaken conjure various associations while consciously allowing space for a number of different truths and interpretive possibilities. Schrader associates his work with an ongoing philosophical-psychological investigation of familiar myths and histories. By referring to art historical motifs and subjects with the gesture of painterly perfection, he reflects on the contemporary role of the artist and painting as well as current issues.

MEIKE ZOPF’S puzzlingly beautiful paintings are characterized by the flowing-together of contradictions; the abstract and the figurative, the lightness of a drawing and painterly concentration, the tender and the rugged. Longing and the everyday, the surreal and the real merge into complex worlds in which the strange and the familiar become one. Zopf creates her own universe in her work, appropriates various motifs and symbols, frees them from their context and places them next to and against one another, putting them – like a mosaic-into a unified composition. Her picture worlds are populated by women, men, children, crystalline forms, motifs borrowed from Christian iconography and Greek and Roman mythology; a soulful, feminine pictorial language of formidable density and endless interpretive possibility.

Drawing inspiration from art history, mass media and popular culture, HAL BUCKNER’S dynamic, precise forms merge line drawing and sculpture to capture the many facets of the female body: an ever-changing, iconic, fascinating form opening new realms of possibility with every step, twist and gesture. Sensual, powerful, and bold, the subject is rendered with striking precision and economy, often conveying a breathtaking amount of emotion, gesture and detail in a single line. Life-sized silhouettes cut from a single, lightweight sheet of aluminum are brought to life in a play of light and shadow, while minimally rendered shape, luminescence and contrast imply new dimensions in space.

Fascinated by the prospect of „forging with air,“ implosion is at the center of EWERDT HILGEMANN’S work. Geometric, hollow forms made of stainless steel, such as a cube or a pyramid, are made by the artist himself, who then extracts the air inside using a special air pump. Strong, elementary natural elements deform and change the sculpture. The smooth, reflective metal surfaces fold and collapse into themselves while the shining surface remains untouched with no sign of external impact. The factors defining the creative act — construction, destruction and coincidence–are relativised by decades of experience with the material, which has a strong influence on the development process and determines, in the end, the individual forms the sculptures take

YASAM SASMAZER’S wooden sculptures are life-sized, realistic depictions of children: an absent-minded boy holding a bird, a mischievously provocative, grinning little girl holding a lollipop, a girl lost in thought with the giant shadow of a wolf on the wall behind her. They are gestures and scenarios that we know from children and the world of fairytales – and yet Sasmazer’s sculptures deal with the „dark side“ of the subconscious. Her children are no „little angels“, but rather insecure and distrustful and, like all people, they have a certain aggressive potential.

Über:

BAP// Istanbul
Herr Tarik Ersin Yoleri
Luleci Hendek Cad. 20
34400 Istanbul-Tophane
Türkei

fon ..: + 90 (0) 212 243 8578
web ..: http://www.bapistanbul.com
email : info@bapistanbul.com

BAP//ISTANBUL aims to support young artists at the beginning of their careers by providing their appreance at the right platforms to recieve the attention of international art scene. On this focus BAP//ISTANBUL by Tarik Yoleri promotes the represented young contemporary artists by local and international exhibitions, art fairs and achieves the permanent participation of the art works to the private, corporate and museum collections locally and internationally.

Pressekontakt:

BAP// Istanbul
Herr Tarik Ersin Yoleri
Luleci Hendek Cad. 20
34400 Istanbul-Tophane

fon ..: +90 (0) 212 243 8578
web ..: http://www.bapistanbul.com
email : info@bapistanbul.com