Gün (Mehmet Gün, known as Mehmet Gün in Turkey), who continues his artistic life in Berlin and London, appeared before art lovers in Turkey for the first time at Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art between May 3-14, 2011 with his 'staged' photographs, which he has been focusing on since 2007. Gün, who took part in the first of the Elgiz Museum's 10th Anniversary 'Masters' exhibitions, is also one of the first artists to join the Elgiz Collection. In this organization, which is also the first exhibition organized by Gün himself in Turkey for 13 years, art lovers have seen very different works from what they have known so far.
The large-scale photographs produced by the artist between 2008-10 include interpretations of subjects, objects and visual elements from literature, 17th century Baroque masters, Renaissance painting, religious and everyday objects in nu works, and astrophysics. Gün's parallelism between the words of the Irish writer and poet Samuel Beckett and his own approach to art resulted in the transformation of words into images and marked his first period of working with photographic media.
Four of the works in the exhibition bear the same title as Beckett's short story Worstward Ho, published in 1983. This series was exhibited at the Berlin Museum of Contemporary Art (Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie) in 2009. 'Astronomer', one of Gün's works on classical painters, is a conceptual work on the Dutch painter Jan Vermeer.
Son Yemekten Sonra, 2010
Gökbilimci Vermeer, 2010
Exhibition Opening, Sabine Küper-Büsch, Sağda; Son Kahvaltı, 2010. Fotoğraf: Muri Eren
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