HALUK AKAKÇE

May 24- July 10, 2007

Haluk Akakçe was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1970. He studied Fine Arts at the Bilkent University in Ankara, and continued his studies at the Royal College of Arts, London and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives and works in New York.

Akakçe is a child of the digital revolution who works in a broad range of media, effortlessly moving from low-tech drawing and wall painting to, more recently, digitally animated video. Akakçe’s figures are cyber-visions of techno-organic hybrids. They remind the fluid morphology of the body in Japanese comics, the contorted visions of Hieronymus Bosch and the arabesques of classical Islamic architecture.

His move from wall painting to video was natural for him, since he conceives the wall as a site of projection. In this exhibition he will be showing videos in which a line –up of imaginary objects are parading before the viewer and present a transforming scene in constant flow. The plot is a transient stage that hosts a metaphysical landscape. With the help of music, the objects gain life and reflect emotions. Each object is a reflection of various states of being: some calm, some restless and deconstructed, they all need each other to rest their shadows on. Trapped in a revolving universe act as orbits of an invisible inner mechanism.

The gallery remains open from Tuesday to Friday 10:30–20:00,Saturday 12:00–16:00.