LACK OF WHOLENESS

Dear visitor,

We are living in barbarian times. When I say barbarian times, I’m not referring to the conflicts that we are living through around the world. They are not surprising. This world has always been bloody and outrageous.

We are living in barbarian times because we all have a little “Stalin” inside. We know better than everyone else; everything we do and think is right. Well, we think that we think. But we do not. We are just reacting.

Being that the painting (or at least the one that uses its own critical root as a canvas, that is, the one that acts based on its tautology), has not managed, despite its attempts, to move or distance itself from the established paradigms during the modern project. Volkan Diyaroglu (Istanbul, 1982) starts from that same assimilation to propose an exercise in representing his own pictorial mechanism. We have to say, therefore, that Diyaroglu paints exactly what he paints, so that, in Heideggerian terms, everything is clear to one’s own eyes.

Curated by: Bartosz Nowak
20.01-12.03.2023

*Zrealizowano przy pomocy funduszu stypendialnego ze środków finansowych budżetu Miasta Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego.

Notes on Volkan Diyaroğlu’s “Guernica Every day” Exhibition

We are living under constant bombardment in every sense of the word: Missiles, oppression, violence, censorship, opinions, visual messages… This seems to be a legacy of the 20th century that also gave character to the present millennium. The wounds inflicted by the 20th century tragic history have their representation in art, Picasso’s “Guernica” being one of the most famous examples.  Similarly, Volkan Diyaroğlu uses his artistic expression to present us with the torments of the 21st century.