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| Ahmet Yeşil, Sesler ve İzler, 2019, tuval üzerine yağlıboya, 130×98 cm. |
Ahmet Yeşil, “Sesler ve İzler” serisinden son dönem çalışmalarının yer aldığı eserleriyle 3-26 Nisan 2019 tarihleri arasında New York Gallery Max SoHo’da izleyicilerle buluşuyor.
Ahmet Yeşil, “Sesler ve İzler” serisiyle ilgili kaleme aldığı yazısında şunları aktarıyor: “Yaratmanın yaşama karşı başkaldırı olduğu inancıyla, yaşanılan gerçekten kendi gerçeğimi yaratarak çoğalmaya çalışıyorum, sonsuzluğun içinde bilinmeyen boşluklara yaşam izlerimi bırakarak.
Yaratma, cesaret gerektiren bir eylemdir. Rollo May’e göre yaratı ediminin olabilmesi için yoğun bir karşılaşma anı (encounter) yaşanması gerekir. Yaşama dair soruları sanatçının encounterlarıdır.
Karşılaşma anından sonra yaratı sürecine giren sanatçı sorularının yanıtını kendi dili ile şiirsel, işitsel-plastik, dramatik ortaya koyar. Sanatçının kendi dili ile ortaya koyduğu imgelem her bakanın gözünde yeniden yaratılarak çoğalmaktadır. Yaratıda ortaya konan “söz”ün bıraktığı her iz izleyiciyle birlikte çoğalarak yaşamda var olmanın göstergesi olmaktadır.
Malzemenin imkânlarıyla sürdürülen, gerilim, sanatçının verimini doğrudan etkiler. Gerilim yerini uzlaşmaya bıraktıkça, sanatçının diliyle hayat arasındaki sürtüşme ortadan kalkar, söz barışın işgaline uğrar, söz tükenir, kalan izler bizi her çağda sonsuz devinim içinde sesin izlerini takip etmemizin rehberi olarak yaşamın katmanları arasındaki halkaları oluşturur. Sanatçı da izleyiciyle aynı ölçü de yeni yollara yöneliyor. Sanat eserini kurcalamak risk almaktır. Sanatçının çalışma süreci bittiğinde, ortaya çıkan ses tüm duyu ve birikimlerinin sanatçıya da hiç beklemediği sorular sorar. Bir uçurum kenarın da duruşun bilince etkisidir. Bilincin yaratığı ses dalgalarının geride bıraktığı dilin izleri de gerçekte onunla beraber izleyiciyi de sürükler bu serüvenin içine. Bu izler yaratının ses dalgalarının zaman, zaman duyamadığımız sormaya başladığımız anda duyduğumuz gerçekte eserin bize seslenişi kurduğumuz iletişimle bizi etkileyen imgelerdir izler dediğimiz gerçek bu imge duyumsaması izleyicinin kendi hakikati üzerinden duyumsadığı imlerdir…”
BİLGİ İÇİN
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552 BROADWAY, #401, (Buzz #9)
Between, Spring St. & Prince St.
NY, NY 10012
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| Ahmet Yeşil, Sesler ve İzler, 2019, tuval üzerine yağlıboya, 120×90 cm. |
AHMET YEŞİL’S “VOICES AND TRACES” EXHIBITION AT GALLERY MAX SOHO
Ahmet Yesil’s “Voices and Traces” will be displayed April 3rd – 26th, 2019 at Gallery Max Soho.
Ahmet Yeşil writes about his “VOICES AND TRACES” series: “With the belief of it that creating is a rebellion against life, leaving my life traces into unknown spaces within infinity, I try to augment by creating my own reality out of the experienced reality.
Creation is a courage requiring act. According to Rollo May, in order for creation action to happen, there has to be an intense encounter. An artist’s questions regarding life are her/his encounters.
The artist who finds herself/himself in creation process following the encounter moment, performs the answers questions with -poetic, audial, plastic, dramatic- his/her own language.
The imagery which has been created by the artist with her/his own language multiplies within every single audience’ eye.
Every trace being left by “the word/ saying” performed in creation by multiplying, becomes the indicator of existence/presence in life.
Tension which is sustained by means of the material resources affects the productivity of artist. While the tension leaves its place to the reconcilation, the infighting dissappears between language of artist and life and then word gets exhausted and occupied by peace, remained prints compose the rings among the life layers in every era as the guide for following the voice marks in an endless action.
Artist heads for new ways equally the viewer does. Tampering with the art work is risk taking. When the artist’s work process is over, by all senses and accumulations the voice appears and asks unexpected questions to the artist. This is a cliff edge effect to the consiousness. In reality, the marks of language which is left by the vocal waves of consiousness carries away him along with the viewer into this adventure.
These marks are the voice waves of art work that could not heard sometimes and that could be heard when we begin to ask. In reality the call of art work is the images affect us by establishing a communication. The reality, we named as marks, is an image sensation which can be obtained through viewer’s own truth.
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| Ahmet Yeşil, Sesler ve İzler, 2019, tuval üzerine yağlıboya, 150×100 cm. |
Ahmet Yesil has been actively working as an artist since 1979. He has been featured in 117 solo exhibitions, participated in 297 mixed and contest exhibitions, and received 24 awards.
Even though he follows closely the art movements in the world and in Turkey, he clings to his own reality, developing his art as his brush portrays his longings, passions, excitement, emotions, ideas, pain and joy on the canvas. What needs to be emphasized is that he created an idiosyncratic visual language, which can only be defined as “Ahmet Yesil’s style”.
Like many artists, his early period stands out with landscape paintings. During this period, the artist mostly produced paintings that could be defined as impressionistic.
His second period can be defined as the figure period, during which he approached women and children in a social and societal context.
His third period (1990-1997) was the era when he really began to flourish as an artist. The image of rope began to attain an important place in his paintings and became an essential part of his compositions during this period.
In his fourth period as an artist, ropes and strings started taking up all the surface and content on the canvas. His recent works are detached from any thematic narrative; fully minimalistic works created by plastic and artistic power become semiotic and open pieces. The perfect harmony of rhythm, balance, lyricism, lighting, shadow and bright colors in Yesil’s paintings enable viewers from various cultures to immediately interact with the image.
That’s why his unique paintings have been exhibiting every year since 2006 at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In 2014, his work was exhibited at the same time across the hall from each other as Andy Warhol Retrospective at the Ludwig Galerie Schloss, in Oberhausen, Germany. His paintings are included in many private/public collections and museums, like The Royal Family Collection, The Palace of the United Kingdom and The Turkish Presidential Parliament building. His work can be found across the globe in countries such as Japan, China, Germany, France, USA, Canada, Netherlands, Mexico, Azerbaijan, UK, and Turkey. Ahmet Yesil’s “Voices and Traces” will be displayed April 3rd – 26th, 2019 at Gallery Max Soho.
www.GalleryMaxSoho.com
GALLERY ADDRESS:
552 BROADWAY, #401, (Buzz #9)
Between, Spring St. & Prince St.
NY, NY 10012
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| Ahmet Yeşil, Dipnotlar, 2019, tuval üzerine yağlıboya, 90×70 cm. |
Ümmühan Kazanç
