Baris Saribas
barıs sarıbas // www.barissaribas.com
Baris Saribas was born in 1979 in Izmir. The artist graduated from Marmara University Fine Arts Department (İstanbul) in 2002. He had become student of very famous Turkish painters like Ekrem Kahraman, Prof.Dr. Hüsamettin Koçan, Prof.Dr. Mehmet Özer, Prof.Dr. Mustafa Pilevneli. Barıs Saribas has won 11 awards including 66th and 68th National Paint Awards, Young Painter of the Year Award in 2003, 2004 and 2006. He has been also invited many workshops abroad. He has 28 personal exhibitions in Turkey and other countries. He also joined many national and international group exhibitions. The subjects of his latest works were based on war planes, bombs and aircrafts were highly attracted worldwide and he joined an exhibition in New York recently. Baris Saribas continues to work in Istanbul and Izmir. The artist is represented by Olcay Art Gallery. (www.olcayart.com)
Burak Bedenlier
burak bedenlier // burakbedenlier.blogspot.com //
I began my art education at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in 1996 and concluded with an MFA degree in 2004. I worked in the Sculpture Department of the same institution as a research assistant from 2002 to 2010. Since 2010 I have been working as a lecturer in the same department. Also during but particularly after my graduation I have been continuously practicing art and participating in various group exhibitions, some of which included also international participants, e.g. Mardin Biennale and Port Izmir II. Furthermore, since October 2009 I am a guest artist at the Art Center Istanbul residency program. Although my educational background lies in sculpture and the related techniques of the medium, I use a lot of different strategies and experiment with a rich variety of materials in my actual and practical works. This spans a broad range, such as from photographs to installations, from drawing to metal and wood, from water to religion, from wars to gift items, neither sporadic nor indistinct but all very attached to one another, which you will also recognize while viewing my portfolio.
Emmanuelle Masson
emmanuelle masson // www.emma-masson.com
Fascinated by painting since 3 years old, she studied graphic arts in Sornas school Paris.
Later, she works with painter Gaugois, while she studied in Martin's school of London.
Hired by Saatchi & Saatchi, she works in advertising, but never stops to create and develop her style.
She later creates a range of clothes, which a brand will buy from her.
Always forward in her choices : i.e in late 70' she stylized 50's furniture and refrigerators. which became fashioned in the 90's
Genco Gulan
genco gülan // www.gencogulan.com
Genco Gülan is a conceptual artist with a focus in new media and performance art. He studied Political Science at Bogazici University then he pursued an MA degree on Media Studies at New School, New York. He got prizes from BP, New School, Lions and E. M. A. F. Gülan made solo shows in Istanbul, Berlin, New York, Seoul and Zagreb. His works are presented in museums such as; Centre Pompidou, Pera, ZKM, MAM Rio and La Triennale di Milano. He participated to; Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Bonn Biennale, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art, Wunderbar, Biennial Tehran and Istanbul Festival. His net-art pieces have been exhibited at irishmuseumofmodernart. org, rhizome. org at the New Museum and kanonmedia. com/ His works listed in required reading lists at; City University, New York, Rice University and U. C. Santa Barbara. Gülan gave conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts, Köln University and New York Institute of Technology. Genco Gülan and his art has been referred to by Newsweek, Herald Tribune, NY Arts, Art in America, Art News, Das Kunst, Beaux Arts, Me Naiset and Idomenee. He is in collections such as Abraham Lubelski New York, Marie - Laure Novak, Paris and Elgiz Museum Istanbul. A book on Gülan, edited by Dr. Marcus Graf is published with the title “Genco Gülan: Conceptual Colors”. His book “De-Constructing the Digital Revolution” is published by LAP and available at amazon. com/ He was in the Advisory Board of Balkan Biennial, Cosmopolis, Thessaloniki and International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore. He is the founder of iS. CaM and the Web Biennial. Currently he works in Istanbul.
Máximo González
Máximo González // www.maximogonzalez.info
Born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina, Máximo González studied at the Institute of Art Josefina Contte in Corrientes, Argentina, where he obtained a Teaching Degree in Visual Arts.
From 1992 to 1995, Máximo worked with the Arte-Ahora group creating murals and monuments in over 20 public places in the cities of Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Formosa.
In 1996 Máximo had his first solo exhibition in Corrientes, Argentina. He then worked as Art Director for two short films in Córdoba and Buenos Aires. In 1998 he moved to Córdoba, where alongside with other artists, created ‘Apeyron’ (a plastic and scenic experimentation research center). In 1999 he moved to Buenos Aires, where he studied with visual artist Mónica Girón and the curator and art critic Julio Sánchez at Universidad del Sur. Since 2003 Máximo has lived and worked in Mexico City. He has completed 27 solo exhibitions and special projects amongst which are the following: Project for the reutilization of obsolete vehicles after the extinction of petrol at Travesía Cuatro Gallery, Madrid and Project B, Milano; Dream at DFMC office, Chicago; Wait at Haydeé Rovirosa gallery, NY; Chignahuapan at Skestos Gabriele gallery, Chicago IL and Voges gallery, Frankfurt; PISAR at Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires; Moral and Civic instruction at Travesía Cuatro gallery, Madrid; Greenhouse effect at Art&Idea, Mexico City; Thesis of the unexplainable at Cambá-Cuá Park Cultural Center, Corrientes, Argentina. He has participated in more than 66 group exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, United States, Canada, Spain, England, France, Germany, Poland and Czech Republic. Most notably, he showed “Where have all the flowers gone?” as part of the Poetics of the handmade exhibition at MOCA LA and participated in The tree: from the sublime to the social at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Fine Line at Museo de Las Americas, Denver, CO; The lines of the hand at MUAC, Mexico City; and 2nd Polygraphic Triennial of San Juan, Latina America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico; Mexico: Politics / Poetics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Nuri Battal
Nuri Battal
Excerpt from ”IN THE ABSTRACT-SENSUAL FLUENCE OF “CATHARSIS”
Kaya Ozsezgin
Behind the form perception that the artist presents to viewers, tendency of reification of the order (cosmos) perception in the origin of the nature lies. Nuri Battal is not interested with the appearance world but meaning issue at the abstractive plan of the world. Due to that, he makes sharp references to this meaning by piling the forms which the paint does not cover completely with the help of light, by means of bringing light-dark differences forward, is bringing the emphasis dose of this sharpness forward. “Catharsis” term which means “purification” in Greek language, opens a door of a modern-origin spiritual relief in his paintings. Nuri Battal furrows in the paint with the hard end of a spatula or brush as he would like to unbind the tight-knit fabric of the tarpaulin, canalizes these furrows towards certain directions. Nuri Battal, also opens the way for opportunities which will deepen his message in terms of spiritually by means of this method. Thus, sympathy he feels for the Zen-Buddhist theories which have imbedded in his subconscious by being impressed sufficiently from the gracefulness of Far East philosophy in Japan during his
accommodation for three years have an important role in this situation. Instead of predetermining the path and the destinations to be arrived on this path, letting this to the natural flow is an expectable fact from the view point of viewers of Nuri Battal. Consequently viewer would like to keep alive and conserve the impression obtained by looking at the painting of him inside. This deliberate abstract search in the painting actually directly corresponds to the color and form design which Nuri Battal fictionalized and calls the viewer for a spontaneous appointment with a feeling of spiritual catharsis.
Yigit Yazici
Yiğit Yazıcı // www.yigityazici.com
Born in 1969 in Bursa, Yiğit graduated from the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Mimar Sinan University in 1992. Since then he has taken part in many exhibitions, both in Turkey and abroad, drawing attention especially with his functional art works. Indeed he was a pioneer in his field for his ‘shoe cabinets’ exhibition in 1998. One of Yiğit’s aims is to give the observer a new perspective by transforming normal, everyday objects into customised works of art. He also works on creating new art concepts in different fields. Yigit believes that art can be expressed by any individual who pursues his dream and devotes his life to it. His mission is to take his place in the global art scene as a Turkish contemporary artist.
