Continuing our long tradition of participating in this truly international art fair, C24 Gallery is thrilled to return to Contemporary Istanbul this year with the works of five artists, three of whom have never before exhibited in Turkey. These artists are Gabe BC, based in New York with Central American roots,  Brendan Lee Satish Tang, who is of mixed-Asian descent, based in Vancouver, Canada, and Patricia Waller, a true Berliner, born in Chile. These exciting artists have joined our steadfast Istanbul-based artists Fırat Neziroğlu and the legendary İrfan Önürmen!

 

More about the artists:

 

Gabe BC’s immersive, interactive projects utilize cutting-edge technology combined with video, projections, and neon light. With roots in filmmaking and influenced by the rise of social media programs and AI technology, the artist’s work ranges from small sculptures to large-scale, interactive, public installations that focus on memorialization, modern culture, and the digital and cultural imprints we leave behind for future generations. Barcia-Colombo often tempers his obsession with legacy and memory through his use of humor, as he tackles serious issues in works of all sizes.  

 

Fırat Neziroğlu is Turkish-born artist based in Istanbul. He is known worldwide for a dynamic weaving style built on the legacy of Anatolian weaving traditions. Utilizing homemade, custom-dyed wool, Neziroğlu elevates a centuries-old artform to new heights with contemporary images and content, creating three-dimensional portraits of his dear friends, cherished animal companions, and public figures, incorporating bold colors and original, patented weaving techniques into striking, textured works of art. 

 

İrfan Önürmen lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been represented by C24 Gallery since 2012, and during that time, he has had five solo exhibitions of his work and been shown at 15 international art fairs. Önürmen addresses the impact of mass media on human experience and its visual representation through collage, painting, and sculpture. His work investigates questions of identity amidst the pressures of everyday living, and the swirl of changing political and cultural circumstances. He is particularly well-known for his groundbreaking, three-dimensional tulle constructions, made from sewn-together shapes that he cuts from different colored pieces of tulle. His work has been a fair favorite for years at Contemporary Istanbul, and is found in numerous collections including the Istanbul Modern Museum in Turkey and the Leon Black Collection in the United States. 

 

Brendan Lee Satish Tang is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist who incorporates a variety of mediums and cultural influences to create imaginative sculptures, paintings and drawings. Born in Dublin, Ireland to Trinidadian parents of mixed-Asian descent and relocating to Canada as a young teen, Tang has devoted much of his artistic career to the exploration of modern Asian culture as filtered through his hybrid upbringing. A Gen-Xer who has admittedly been majorly influenced by comic books and video games, Tang is widely celebrated for his Manga Ormolu ceramic series that blends elements of Chinese Ming Dynasty style vases with anime and manga robotics and technology. Growing up in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island with no specific ethnic enclave of his own, Tang became adept at blending in, adapting and negotiating various Asian spaces via a western perspective. The works in this series, metaphors for tech and culture, reflect the constantly shifting dynamics he has navigated between history and identity.

 

Berlin-based artist Patricia Waller is well known for her colorful crocheted works that deliver serious messages about violence and abuse via a medium that is more commonly associated with comfort. Chilean-born Waller has made a decades-long career of responding to the growing acceptance of violence in the world as well as satirizing and playing with cultural mythologies and norms. Confronting bloody realities with a vicious sense of irony, Waller creates handcrafted wool objects that play with well known symbols of innocence, causing us to reconsider how we deal with our fears and our ability to address or repress them. By subverting traditional uses of a familiar material, her bold and graphic work serves as a wake up call to re-examine a pervasive imbalance in our collective psyche. In other works, she applies her dark brand of humor to topics ranging from superheroes, fairy tales and cartoon characters to circus performers, magicians, and animal abuse.

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