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RSS FeedsSolo exhibition by Turkish-American multimedia artist Ahmet Civelek on view at Pi Artworks Istanbul
(Artdaily.org)

 
 

10 december 2018 01:10:07

 
Solo exhibition by Turkish-American multimedia artist Ahmet Civelek on view at Pi Artworks Istanbul
(Artdaily.org)
 


Pi Artworks Istanbul is presenting Number 3: Grit, a solo exhibition by Turkish-American multimedia artist, Ahmet Civelek. Centering around a concept usually quite foreign to creative artists -destruction- in these new bodies of work Civelek employs a humble, readymade, and quite contradictory material: commercially manufactured sandpaper. Civelek’s highly process-based practice inhabits the symbolic and poetic spaces in between drawing, sculpture, and installation. This solo exhibition is the artist’s third, and his first with Pi Artworks. While often imbued with deeply negative connotations, the artist sees the act of destruction as a form of creative authorship as sincere and perhaps more accessible than creation. Though born in the US, Civelek was raised in Istanbul during a time of heightened geopolitical instability. Often witnessing the precarity of daily life firsthand, as well as regular cycles of creation and d


 
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