SELMA GÜRBÜZ AT RAMPA GALLERY ISTANBUL
March 2, 2017 – April 8, 2017
SELMA GÜRBÜZ AT RAMPA GALLERY ISTANBUL
March 2, 2017
– April 8, 2017
Rampa is
pleased to present its third solo exhibition of Selma Gürbüz’s works from March
2 – April 8, 2017. Gurbuz is an anomaly amongst her contemporaries. Her
style and subject matter is singular and in her new body of works she continues
and expands on her aesthetic prowess. The exhibition, “Carnivalesque,” includes
never before seen three-dimensional work, painting, work on paper, and kinetic
sculpture.
Gürbüz’s works
have often tended toward the historical, fantastical, and mythological — a
tendency typical to Carnival, as well. Historically, Carnival was a celebration
that occurs in late February or early March, better known as Mardi Gras or The
Feast of Fools. The festival still famously exists today in cities like Venice
and Rio de Janiero. It is a jubilant, ecstatic and excessive gathering held in
preparation for Lent, a 40-day period of chastity, frugality and fasting. The
celebration is marked by masks, theatre, performance, and is a jovial and
sometimes sinister public revolution against all that is stabilizing or
socially acceptable. Carnivalesque is therefore a freedom characterized by a
communal and ritualistic defying of norms. It is war and peace, young and old,
rich and poor, past and present, Heaven and Hell, male and female, all at once.
While Gürbüz
maintains her stylized aesthetic, in this exhibition she gives the figures and
characters in her works a new agency. They speak, they fight, they dance, and
some literally move off of the canvas, as in her three-dimensional paintings.
The figures depicted, historical or imagined, animist or human, all have a
sense of pride, marked by a defiant liveliness. Put together, the works reflect
the shadowy, anarchic, and freeing dualities that define the Carnivalesque.
You may visit
Selma Gürbüz past exhibition news at Rampa Gallery Istanbul to see more
information about her and her arts to click below link.
https://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/01/exhibition-of-selma-gurbuz-at-rampa.html
DIXI, 2016 ( DETAIL )
DIXI, 2016
Ink on Handmade Paper
Dimensions: 220 x 120 cm ( Without Frame )
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
DIXI, 2016 ( DETAIL )
DIXI, 2016 ( DETAIL )
DIXI, 2016 ( DETAIL )
CRIMSON NIGHTS
1, 2015
Ink on Handmade Nepalese Paper
Dimensions: 152.5 x 301 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
CRIMSON NIGHTS 1, 2015 ( DETAIL )
CRIMSON NIGHTS 1, 2015 ( DETAIL )
CRIMSON NIGHTS 1, 2015 ( DETAIL )
CARNIVALESQUE
1 - 10, 2017
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm ( Each )
Courtesy the
Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
TIME PAST.
AGAIN
Ink on Handmade Nepalese Paper
Dimensions: 240 x 122 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
TIME PAST. AGAIN ( DETAIL )
WAR & PEACE, 2017 ( DETAIL )
CARNIVALESQUE,
2017
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 160 x 236 cm ( Framed )
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
CARNIVALESQUE, 2017 ( DETAIL )
SAIL ME TO THE SUN, 2016
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 155 x 230 x 20 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
CARNIVALESQUE, 2017 ( DETAIL )
CARNIVALESQUE, 2017 ( DETAIL )
WAR &
PEACE 2017
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 155 x 230 x 8 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
CRIMSON NIGHTS
2, 2015
Ink on Handmade Nepalese Paper
Dimensions: 153 x 300 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
CRIMSON NIGHTS 2, 2015 ( DETAIL )
CRIMSON NIGHTS 2, 2015 ( DETAIL )
CRIMSON NIGHTS 2, 2015 ( DETAIL )
AFTER THE
SPRING. HERE I AM, 2016
Ink on Handmade Nepalese Paper
Dimensions: 220 x 120 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
AFTER THE SPRING. HERE I AM, 2016 ( DETAIL )
AFTER THE SPRING. HERE I AM, 2016 ( DETAIL )
BOOM, 2017
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 155 x 230 cm
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
BOOM, 2017 ( DETAIL )
BOOM, 2017 ( DETAIL )
AD GLORIAM,
2016
Ink on Handmade Nepalese Paper
Dimensions: 220 x 120 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
AD GLORIAM, 2016 ( DETAIL )
AD GLORIAM, 2016 ( DETAIL )
MENINAS I, 2016
Iron
Dimensions: 124 x 90 x 38 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
MENINAS II, 2016
Iron
Dimensions: 90 x 65 x 27 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
MENINAS III, 2016
Iron
Dimensions: 72 x 52 x 22 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
MAYBE YOU FEEL
LIKE IT, 2016
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 155 x 230 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
BOOM, 2017 ( DETAIL )
JEAN D'ARC,
2016
Ink on Handmade Nepalese Paper
Dimensions: 220 x 120 cm.
Courtesy the Artist and Rampa, Istanbul
Photo: Chroma
JEAN D'ARC, 2016 ( DETAIL )
RAMPA
GALLERY ISTANBUL
Rampa
Gallery, located in Besiktas, Istanbul, is committed to the realization and
presentation of exceptional artworks, to communicating with a broader audience
and to supporting scholarly research about the gallery artists. Rampa
facilitates the production and presentation of artworks across diverse mediums
and strives to create an innovative and critical forum for artistic production
and discourse.
Rampa
aspires to contribute to the international acknowledgment of its artists by
building sustainable collaborations with curators, museums and cultural
institutions and placing works by its artists in leading private and public
collections.
Located
in one of the recently renovated Akaretler Row Houses, Rampa is one of the
largest galleries in Istanbul and it is comprised of two separate spaces. The
first space on the ground floor functions as a project room. The main gallery,
with a footprint of 900 m2, is designed as an open space in order to
accommodate diverse exhibitions, providing facilities for large-scale works and
installations.
http://www.rampaistanbul.com/en/about-us/
SELMA GÜRBÜZ
Selma
Gürbüz (1960) was born in İstanbul, Turkey. After having studied at Exeter
College of Art Design between 1980-1982, she graduated from Marmara University
Fine Arts Faculty in 1984.
Her
recent solo exhibitions include “Carnivalesque”, Rampa, Istanbul (2017);
“Intemporel”, Galeri Nev, Ankara (2016); “Daydream”, Rampa, Istanbul (2014);
“Long Night. Faraway Voyages.”, Rampa, Istanbul (2013); “Mind’s Eye”, Lawrie
Sahbibi Gallery, Dubai (2011); “Shadows of Myself”, Rose Issa Projects at
Leighton House Museum, London (2011); “Archetypes”, Warehouse (Antrepo) No: 3,
İstanbul (2010), “Sunny Shadows”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2008) and Makii
Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo (2007); “Feline I”, Galerie Maeght, Paris (2006);
“Feline II”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2006); “The Fairy and the Genie”, Gallery
Apel, İstanbul (2004), “Yünname”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2000) and “Karaname”,
Gallery Apel, İstanbul (1999).
Gürbüz
has also participated in many national and international group exhibitions
including “Small Faces, Large Sizes”, Proje 4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary
Art, Istanbul (2015); “Another Time, Another Place”, Rose Issa Projects, London
(2013); “Artists in Their Time” (2015-2016), “Dream and Reality” (2011), “From
Traditional to Contemporary” (2010), “New Works, New Horizons” (2009) and
“Modern Experiences” (2008), İstanbul Modern, İstanbul; “Cara a Cara”
(travelling show), with Marco Del Re, Galerie Maeght, Paris and Barcelona
(2003); “Fantaisies du Harem et les Nouvelles Shéhérazades” (travelling show),
Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona and Museum of Natural History, Lyon
(2003); “Le Cirque” (travelling show), Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Editions Eric
Koehler, Athenee-Theatre Louis Jouvet, Paris, Espace Mira Phalaina, Montreuil
and Novomestka Radnice, Prague (1996). Her other projects include “Shadow
theatre design for ‘More Wind’”, Portside Gallery, Yokohama (2005) and
“Futurist Stage Curtain Design”, Revues Parlées, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
(1996).“Automatic Games”, Kwangju Biennale, Korea (1995) and “L’Orient des
Cafés” (travelling show), French Cultural Centre, Cairo, Alexandria, Athens,
Thessaloniki, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (1992).
Selma
Gürbüz lives and works in İstanbul, Turkey.
http://www.rampaistanbul.com/en/artist/selma-gurbuz/#works_in_exhibition_4991
