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Above the Clouds: Underground

2 weeks ago | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç |Travis Jeppesen |Jacoba Urist

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Kaya Genç on Itziar Barrio

Dec 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç

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Kaya Genç on Şakir Gökçebağ

Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç

Şakir Gökçebağ, a Turkish-born alumnus of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf who has lived in Hamburg since 2001, has had shows in his home country before (at Baksı Museum in Bayburt in 2019–20 and at Istanbul’s Ferda Art Platform in 2021), but “As It Seems,” curated by Emre Baykal, is his most extensive presentation in Istanbul to date.
“Painting Today”

Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç

In preparing “Painting Today,” a meticulously researched show that displayed works produced in the past half decade by twenty-eight artists who live in Turkey or are part of its diaspora, Burcu Çimen and Didem Yazıcı rejected a thematic approach. Also, this offering of small tastings of contemporary Turkish painting was not a comprehensive survey; many of the living “stars” of Turkish painting, from Mehmet Güleryüz to Bedri Baykam, were absent.
Kaya Genç on Jackie Matisse

Jul 30, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç

May 23, 2024 - December 15, 2024Jackie Matisse (1931–2021) was born into artistic royalty. Despite being the goddaughter of Joan Miró and the daughter of the art dealer Pierre Matisse, Jackie somehow avoided art for years.
Kaya Genç on İrem Tok

May 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç

İrem Tok has devoted the past decade to carving up old dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other books and populating these volumes with miniature worlds—mundane, mossy microcosms composed of ceramic plants, water, trees, wandering humans, and sometimes the artist’s avatars. Tok’s latest exhibition, “Meeting the Darkness,” offered variations of this approach: In Zamanın tanığı (Witness of Time; all works 2023), a minuscule lake sits atop five volumes of a French encyclopedia.
Handan Börüteçene

Jan 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç

From early on in her career, the trailblazing sculpture artist Handan Börüteçene has integrated her interests in archaeology and sociology into a growing body of public installations. Take İşçi Kadın (Workwoman), 1982, a piece from Börüteçene’s graduation project that was accidentally broken before its public debut.
Kaya Genç on Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses

Jan 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç |Slantthe Politics |Michael Corris

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry GrassesNURI BILGE CEYLAN loves scoundrels of an artistic bent. There is no other way to explain the preponderance of louts, misanthropes, and creeps who have populated the films made over his three-decade career. Take the autofictional Clouds of May (1999), whose conniving protagonist, a fledgling director, employs family members to film his debut in his native Thracian town.