OUT OF ALAN

SURFACE-SEQUENCE

MURAT PULAT

04/10/2015 – 25/10/2015

MARK PEET VISSER

NETHERLANDS

Pulat has captured the attention of collectors worldwide especially with the inclusion of his works at international auctions between the years 2011-2014. In this period he was one –and maybe the first– of the most sought after young artists in Turkey. The great interest shown in his works at the Contemporary Istanbul in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 has largely increased his renown in Turkey. These accomplishments further boosted the visibility of the artist, who was already being followed by art galleries and institutions worldwide. Pulat’s solo show in New York opened in January 2014 was a big success, resulting in his works entering important private collections in the USA.

Murat Pulat is especially interested in movie sequences by new wave overture directors. By reproducing these scenes on the canvas, he incorporates the images into life. As he combines cinema, the art of the new age, with traditional materials such as canvas and oil paint, he saves viewers from being imprisoned in new technologies of visualization.

Surface-Sequence is a large-scale show comprising Murat Pulat’s most recent works. In this series, the artist boldly makes use of multi-layered color areas. Each work is at the same time calm, passionate and vivid. As sequences from movies move into a new context of aesthetics, a new category of art emerges. Held at Mark Peet Visser Gallery, which is one of the significant contemporary art institutions in the Netherlands, in cooperation with ALAN Istanbul, the show can be visited between the dates October 4th – October 25th, 2015.

“Contemporary Sculpture Indoors and Outdoors”

Haluk Atalayman, Neda İsmail Atar, Elçin Ekinci, Gülen Eren, Ferit Furuncu,

Kadriye İnal, Sesil Beatris Kalaycıyan, Ilgın Seymen, Meliha Sözeri

04/06/2015 – 05/09/2015

This is the first gallery show in Turkey that utilizes both interior and outdoor space. The 300-square-meter backyard of OVERTHOSE Nişantaşı hosts the works of young generation contemporary artists. Starting with 3-dimensional works in interior space, the show then takes viewers outside. With its natural landscape and vegetation, the garden hosts a wide range of works – and each artist relates to the space according to his/her own artistic perspective.
“HIDDEN” is a large-scale project exhibition that brings together the works of 8 prominent young-generation artists who create 3-dimensional works. This special show aims to offer an unusual experience for viewers by combining two completely different fields through art works. Beginning at OVERTHOSE which is located on a busy street in the central district of Nişantaşı, the show then surprisingly leads viewers to natural space, and this opens the way for a unique kind of perception. The act of passing from man-made cartesian spaces onto organic soft ground gives the impression of a large installation made up of contemporary art works.
The artists in this show (some of whom live in Istanbul and some live abroad) all have different formal attitudes. The works of these artists interact with each other and establish a dialogue, albeit a limited one. On the other hand, each work positioned in the backyard awaits to be perceived and understood by itself.
“HIDDEN” can be seen at Nişantaşı OVERTHOSE between May 29th 2015 and September 5th 2015.

in OVERTHOSE

KEZBAN ARCA BATIBEKİ, İSMET DOĞAN, KOMET, AYLİNE OLUKMAN, ARDAN ÖZMENOĞLU, MURAT PULAT, MERVE ŞENDİL, HALİL VURUCUOĞLU

20.12.2014 // 28.02.2015

“Intentional Overdose” brings together Istanbul-based, internationally-renowned contemporary artists, who are gradually coming into prominence in the World Contemporary Art scene.
Featuring artists who create visually-moving works with powerful imagination, “Intentional Overdose” aims a visual integrity with regard to contemporary aesthetics, instead of focusing on the individual statements of each artist.

Then, what does “Intentional Overdose” exactly mean?

The common characteristic of the prominent two dimensional works in contemporary art is that, in these works the image is released from the limitations of two dimensions and acquires a three dimensional quality by means of colors, texture or technique. This is an approach that prioritizes space, that frees itself of its boundaries by making space a part of the work. Thus, this kind of works deserve to be addressed with their overdosed interventions to the surrounding space, instead of being evaluated on their own. “Intentional Overdose” focuses on the potential effects on viewers when works take on the space as if in a show of strength. It’s the experience of how the works of contemporary artists communicate with one another within the space of OVERTHOSE. “Intentional Overdose” is the sum of the loud and high-voltage images contained within.

Murat Pulat

Solo Exhibition 16/01/2014 – 15/02/2014

Leila Heller Gallery

New York

Image-Animal Catalog

Following the inclusion of his works in international auctions between the years 2011 – 2013, Murat Pulat became a focus of attention for collectors worldwide. Meanwhile he had come to be one of the most sought-after young artists in Turkey, maybe the most. And when his works drew heavy interest from art-lovers at Contemporary İstanbul in 2011, 2012 and 2013, his fame has further spread. These accomplishments helped the artist earn more followers, though he was already watched by many art galleries and institutions around the world.

Murat Pulat has a special interest in movie scenes by new-wave/overture directors. By reproducing these images on canvas, he helps the scenes become a part of our lives as visual elements. He combines cinema – the art of the new era – and traditional media such as oil paint and canvas on an intermediate surface, thus saving his viewers from the imprisonment of the new technologies of visualization.

Image-Animal is a large-scale show comprising Murat Pulat’s latest works. In this series, the artist has also included moving-imagery in his paintings. The image is no more still, it is rather perceived as a slice of time taken from a movement that is infinite. Thus effectively increasing the “duration” of each painting. Image-Animal can be seen at the main gallery-room of Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea, New York between January 16, 2014 and February 15, 2014.

ALAN İstanbul and Overthose presents “Conversation Series”. In first part of the series participation with Eda Kehale Argun, Dila Kabakçı and Sedat Ozturk as guest speakers, talked about “Contemporary Art Production, Circulation and Collection in İstanbul”. Series will be organized upcoming days with different issues.

ALAN İstanbul Artists:

Komet

Murat Pulat

Monika Bulanda Ayline Olukman Zeynep Beler Gökçe Çeliker Meltem Sırtıkara Architectural Consulting: www.zemin.biz.com

Location: Lütfi Kırdar Kongre ve Sergi Sarayı
Date: 24.11 2011 – 26.11.2011

ALAN istanbul is not only an art gallery but also a free and independent space for artistic action.

ALAN istanbul is a living art environment where performances, video and film screenings can be held in addition to exhibitions within the scope of plastic and visual arts, as well as permanent and temporary exhibitions.

ALAN İstanbul Artists:
A. Cem Şahin
Murat Pulat
Monika Bulanda
Süha Şahin
Ayline Olukman

In June, ALANistanbul will present an exhibition of five contemporary artists at Bodrum Castle, one of Turkey’s most historic and mystical sites, built on a rocky peninsula between two harbors and surrounded by the sea on three sides. Curated by Billur Tansel, the exhibition will be on view from June 8 to 16, 2011. The artists in the exhibition, Ayşegül Sağbaş, Burcu Perçin, Kezban Arca Batıbeki, Murat Pulat and Yavuz Tanyeli, will present a synthesis of the past, present and future in a nostalgic space with their newest works. In this space where altars, sarcophagi and various artifacts collected from ancient Halicarnassos and its surroundings are present, the simultaneous exhibition of artworks by our well-known contemporary artists offers the viewer the opportunity to wander through a wide range of time.

Roberly Bell aims to enter into a dialog with Istanbulites through a relational project by using ALANistanbul’s indoor exhibition spaces and outdoor terrace together. The artist, who studied sculpture at the University of Massachusetts and State University of New York, establishes a warm contact and exchange with the audience while making the representative forms of the natural material for her artistic creativity. This perceptual relationship with Roberly Bell’s installation is enhanced by the colorful sculptures available for use, promising the viewers an intimate relationship. As an artist who spent most of her childhood in Latin America and South East Asia and lives in the metropolis of New York, Roberly Bell has a personal interest in revealing the deep sense of division and problematic relationship with nature experienced by today’s urban dweller. It is possible to say that the modern individual’s perception of nature involves excessive control and a sense of psychological omnipotence. Bell displaces this distorted perception, which is stuck in the masculine language of cities and produced by this language, with a feminine and warm expression and communication, and brings it to the agenda with an exhibition that is unprecedented in Turkey after America and Russia. Roberly Bell realized her works at atelier 13 in Istanbul. Describing his working process at atelier 13 as a very special experience, the artist designs his exhibition as a process of communication with his viewers. The artist presents each viewer with a real flower and sends a photograph of the building in which they live to the artist’s address on the card in the flower, asking them to become participants in future exhibitions.

While being pushed to the background by new media tools and forms of expression on the one hand, and exposed to the coding of the internet’s circulation network on the other, the art of painting continues to maintain its active place in the ever-expanding contemporary art practices with a brand new power and richness.

Deniz Güvensoy combines the spatial possibilities of ALANistanbul with the expressions of imagination on a plane where simulation and reality melt. The works generate new meanings as escape lines deriving from a common context and each deepening in itself. In this way, the exhibition “http://” aims to open a new SPACE within the “situation” that we are now completely familiar with and have internalized.