December 1997 - January 2002: Taner Ceylan
Past exhibition
Press release
Galerist will exhibit the works of Taner Ceylan starting from 12th December 2002.
Taner Ceylan is an artist with a drawing behaviour leading to realism and beyond.
The pictures of the artist, drawn between December 97 - January 2002 could be perceived as photographs at a first glance, but the depth which could not be seen in any photograph, leads the spectator to the track of very thin brushes and to the magic of oil on canvasses. The artist has drawn twenty one pictures during four and a half years. The pictures at the exhibition seem to have created one another in a certainsequence, thus forming a unity.
The pictures we encounter at the exhibition resemble first the advertisements of “Calvin Klein”, “Gucci” and “Boss” and then shock the visitors, breaking Heterosexual and emotional cliches. In this context, pictures and heroes as we encounter them daily, embrace new and different roles in the world of the artist. While we see a male figure in a picture of the artist with a warm and erotic posture, we can see the same person in another picture as a prostitute or even as a murderer using his body as a bate for attracting its victim, or in the next moment, as a saint.
In the pictures of the artist where we can follow the track of love and deity, the obsession of the artist with the canvass fills the spectator with admiration. These works, which force us tore-name and re-define passion, were a series that the artist had not aimed to exhibit. Taner Ceylan’s objective is the pursuit of truth by means of his paintings and for him the “instant” is the most important time.
Taner Ceylan is an artist with a drawing behaviour leading to realism and beyond.
The pictures of the artist, drawn between December 97 - January 2002 could be perceived as photographs at a first glance, but the depth which could not be seen in any photograph, leads the spectator to the track of very thin brushes and to the magic of oil on canvasses. The artist has drawn twenty one pictures during four and a half years. The pictures at the exhibition seem to have created one another in a certainsequence, thus forming a unity.
The pictures we encounter at the exhibition resemble first the advertisements of “Calvin Klein”, “Gucci” and “Boss” and then shock the visitors, breaking Heterosexual and emotional cliches. In this context, pictures and heroes as we encounter them daily, embrace new and different roles in the world of the artist. While we see a male figure in a picture of the artist with a warm and erotic posture, we can see the same person in another picture as a prostitute or even as a murderer using his body as a bate for attracting its victim, or in the next moment, as a saint.
In the pictures of the artist where we can follow the track of love and deity, the obsession of the artist with the canvass fills the spectator with admiration. These works, which force us tore-name and re-define passion, were a series that the artist had not aimed to exhibit. Taner Ceylan’s objective is the pursuit of truth by means of his paintings and for him the “instant” is the most important time.