Small Faces, Big Sizes

Small Faces, Big Sizes

20 January - 13 March 2015

In exhibitions about ‘living beings’ - beings born and dying, is the ‘facial expression’ and the subject of the exhibit realistic? Exaggeratedly large? Or is it small - that is, its scale - is one of the most important components of the emotion desired to be conveyed. It is aimed to juxtapose the works selected from the museum's collection with this in mind.

The first characteristic of the most important works of art in the history of art is that they have a fascination that, even from far away, traps the viewers in their gravitational field and compels them to come towards them. When they bring the viewers, who are drawn to them by their fascination, to the proximity of ‘eye to eye’, it can be said that both the ‘small face’ and the ‘big body’ that forces us to look up from above are at the closest point and ready to share their secrets mutually with the viewer... Of course, while the viewer takes steps towards the work of art in question, he/she also works on the file he/she has compiled from the memories of his/her memory and tries to understand which sources of inspiration and references the artist's artworks, which hover at opposite poles, open or open the door to.

MEZZANINE FLOOR

The Elgiz Museum welcomed 2015 with a space proposal or a fine-tuning of the ‘Mezzanine’, transforming it into a more holistic, more qualified exhibition space. ‘The light scheme of the Mezzanine has been reinforced, and the office corridor and the spaces at either end have been organised for the exhibition of artworks of appropriate size and quality. This is the third new space discovery in the museum's interior transformations, following the efficient utilisation of the ‘TRIANGLE’ area at the museum's entrance and the ‘TERRACE’ on its roof. The ‘HANGING FLOOR’ is a second space of 160 square metres with an identity that can be opened for thematic exhibitions independently from the ‘PERIODIC EXHIBITIONS AREA’ on the ground floor, or it gives the museum the ability to increase the ‘PERIODIC EXHIBITIONS AREA’ and to integrate and enrich the interior space.

1915 - 2015

We commemorate Cihat Burak and Nuri İyem, two of the pioneers of Turkish contemporary painting, on their 100th anniversary with their works and with respect.

The artists coming together with their works in this special exhibition are: Adnan Turani, Anne Wölk, Áron Zsolt Majoros, Aslı Torcu, Azade Köker, Bedri Baykam, Burhan Doğançay, Burhan Uygur, Cihat Burak, Çağdaş Erçelik, Ebru Alpagut, Ergin İnan, Ferhat Özgür, Habip Aydoğdu, Hakan Bakır, Hakan Gürsoytrak, Hakkı Anlı, Halil Vurucuoğlu, Hande Şekerciler, Haşim Nur Gürel, İhsan Oturmak, Jacqueline Fraser, Jacqueline Roditi, Jonathan Meese, Komet, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Levent Morgök, Luca Zampetti, Mahmut Aydın, Mehmet Güleryüz, Melisa Mızraklı, Murat Pulat, Mustafa Ata, Nancy Atakan, Neriman Polat, Nuri İyem, Özlem Günyol, Paul Hodgson, Robert Rauschenberg, Sean Henry, Selma Gürbüz, Stephan Balkenhol, Şenol Yorozlu, Tomur Atagök, Volkan Kızıltunç, Wolfgang Petrick and Xavier Veilhan.

The exhibition will be on view between 20 January - 13 March 2015.

Foto: Kayhan Kaygusuz

Soldan sağa; Hande Şekerciler, Ebru Alpagut, Murat Pulat

Soldan sağa; Burhan Doğançay, Selma Gürbüz, Tomur Atagök, Neriman Polat

Soldan sağa; Nuri İyem, Cihat Burak