2014
Interview with Denis Maksimov / Bxl Connect / No:10 / October-November 2014
“AN ARTIST WANTS TO BE IMMORTAL, A KIND OF SEMI-GOD, AND TO SHAPE HIS WORLD, SOMETIMES KILLING PEOPLE WITH HIS WORKS, SOMETIMES KILLING IDEAS, SOMETIMES KILLING LINES AND POINTS OR EVEN THE TIME. IF YOU REPLACE “ARTIST” IN THAT SENTENCE WITH “POLITICIAN”, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.”
FORMATRACIA. APUNTES FENOMENOLÓGICOS DE VOLKAN DIYAROGLU / JOSE RAMON ALARCON @ MAKMA.NET (Spanish)
Formatracia se erige en el retorno expositivo a Valencia de Volkan Diyaroglu (Estambul, 1982), a modo de solo exhibition, tras sus últimas individuales de 2007 en las ya extintas Forja Arte Contemporáneo (“Delik”) y Galería Edgar Neville (“Mi Vértigo”). Desde entonces y durante un lustro y medio su obra se ha prodigado por el mapa internacional, manifestando su impronta pictórica en conspicuos países europeos, Estados Unidos, así como en su más reciente “Memory & Blood”, en Element Art Space de Singapur.
Toni Calderon about Volkan Diyaroglu / Formatracia (Spanish)
Hay innumerables ejemplos en el que el arte se convierte en parte esencial de la propia vida del artista. Esto no es algo nuevo pues ya en los años 50 del siglo pasado se convirtió en una de las características de numerosos planteamientos artísticos que terminaron eclosionando en multitud de propuestas absolutamente personales y ya no tanto encorsetadas en movimientos, istmos o grupos.
A NEW SELECTION FROM THE ELGIZ COLLECTION / 17 June – 1 November 2014 / ELGIZ MUSEUM / ISTANBUL / TURKEY
The Elgiz Collection periodically presents a new selection in the temporary exhibition area. This time the new selection includes works by the artists: David LaChapelle, Alex Prager, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Gilbert & George and Guillermo Mora. Instead of focusing on just one discipline, this selection offers viewers video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation.
CLIMATE CHANGE / BOZLU ART PROJECT / ISTANBUL / 2014
I WISH I HAD A RIVER / HARLAN LEVEY PROJECTS / BRUSSELS
HARLAN LEVEY PROJECTS / BRUSSELS
Opening: 4th April – 25th May 2014
An exhibition featuring works by Volkan Diyaroglu (TR), Erich Gruber (AT), Charlotte Schleiffert (NL) (courtesy Annie Gentils Gallery), Roland Bouvier (FR) and Marcin Dudek (PL).
+ information -> http://www.hl-projects.com
NILO CASARES /// MEMORY & BLOOD (SPANISH AND ENGLISH VERSION)
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NILO CASARES /// MEMORY & BLOOD
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El asiático Volkan Diyaroğlu nace a orillas del Mar Negro, un mar mil veces navegado por la familia del poeta Hesíodo, quien nos legó el conocimiento de que en el principio era el Caos, Caos que se vio sometido al ordenamiento del Tiempo, cuya hija natural, e incestuosa madre de las Musas de todas las artes, es Mnemósine, la Memoria.
PRESS RELEASE / BLOOD & MEMORY / ELEMENT ART SPACE
Singapore, 22 February 2014
PRESS RELEASE
VOLKAN DIYAROGLU: Memory and Blood
Friday, 14 March − Sunday, 20 April 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, 14 March from 6:30 to 8:30 PM
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.