Güçlü Öztekin
Good Stuff Takes Time—Great Things Happen Suddenly
2–30 March 2013
Rampa Istanbul
Şair Nedim Caddesi No: 21a
34357 Akaretler Beşiktaş
Istanbul, Turkey
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Rampa hosts Güçlü Öztekin’s exhibition, Good Stuff Takes Time—Great Things Happen Suddenly, from March 2nd to 30th, 2013.
Güçlü Öztekin, who has previously transformed Rampa’s space using various tools and works of different sizes, now splits the space starkly in half. The works imprisoned in the space relate to each other, referring to Rampa’s architectural structure and the artist’s position as a self-conscious temporary invader.
Öztekin’s second exhibition at Rampa addresses the artist’s multi-layered relationship with the space and his own production. Öztekin divides the main exhibition space into two, displaying two groups of “abstract” and “portrait” artworks back to back. The abstract works can be read as the deconstructed, destroyed, segmented versions of the various shapes and figures that the artist employs in his work, while the portraits tend towards an androgynous, genderless human type. The abstracts and portraits are both in line with Öztekin’s visual language; the sharp division between them and the foregrounding of the content unifies the artist’s practice while creating a rift at the same time. The artist thus utilizes this superficial split in his own works as point of departure for production. As the viewer cannot simultaneously see what lies on both sides of the wall, the works that are left “outside” invite the viewer to consider the framework that is deconstructed, produced, and interrogated in Öztekin’s exhibitions.
The exhibition space on the street level opposes the sharp division in the main exhibition space and is the visualization of a brainstorming session. Öztekin invades and claims the space with two- and three-dimensional objects. Öztekin produces a space within a space, under the auspices of the same exhibition, encouraging viewers to indulge bit by bit; he does not separate the production process from the exhibition process. This attitude enables the exhibition to move, not dissimilarly to an amoebic creature.
Güçlü Öztekin
Güçlü Öztekin was born in Eskişehir in 1978. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Painting in 2003. Güçlü’s first solo show was held in 2006 in İstanbul and he took part in several group exhibitions in Turkey and Germany. Öztekin is a member of HA ZA VU ZU artist group founded in 2005. Güçlü Öztekin lives and works in İstanbul.
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Visuals
You can download visuals of Good Stuff Takes Time—Great Things Happen Suddenly from this link.
