Kemal Seyhan: Kemal Seyhan
Pi Artworks London is proud to present inaugural solo exhibition by Vienna-Istanbul based artist Kemal Seyhan. For his debut solo exhibition in the UK, Seyhan will present signature paintings from past 3 decades, new paintings, drawings and sculptural objects.
Kemal Seyhan’s paintings in the last two decades are narrated with a narrow language, comprising four words:horizontal - vertical - colour - intensification.
While he pieces the words of this narrow vocabulary together, the artist restricts himself with a series of rules: Starting with black, applying vertical and horizontal on the canvas lengthways, avoiding simple topological relations on the surface of the work –such as large-small, including-included, inside-outside; in this context, not using the color to define the space on the canvas, putting it mainly under intensification’s order creating an excelled surface that disables any three dimensional illusion, leaving everything else (except for the surface), the back or sides of the canvas, out of attention. The works are implemented by applying this vocabulary and rules on canvas deck of times. Kilos of paint is used to color the canvas with thousands of spatula touches to create strata.
About:
Kemal Seyhan, b.1960, Kayseri, lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Istanbul, Turkey
Major exhibitions include; Untitled - Poetics of Inner Space (solo), Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2018); Syntax (solo) Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany(2017); Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul, Freiburg, Museum for Modern Art Freiburg, Germany (2016); Ondas Negras (solo), GPLSpaceVI, Vienna, Austria (2015); 41Meter (solo), Zorlu Center, Istanbul, Turkey (2013); Sieben Grengänge, House Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria (2011); Kemal Seyhan (solo), Cora Hölzl Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany (2010). Major collections include; Ferdinandeum, Tiroler State Museum, Innsbruck, Austria; Arch Driend Collection, Vienna, Austria; Die Roland Madesta, Nürnberg, Austria; Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum Evliyagil, Ankara, Turkey.
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Topology
1989-2018
Oil on cotton
40 x 48 x 8 cm -
Untitled
2020
Oil on canvas
85 x 70 cm -
Untittled
2017
Oil on canvas
230 x 190 cm -
Untitled
2019
Oil on canvas
230 x 190 cm -
Untittled
2019
Graphite on canvas
230 x 160 cm -
Untitled
2019
Graphite on canvas
230 x 160 cm
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Untittled
2020
Oil and graphite on canvas
80 x 65 cm -
Untitled2020
Oil and graphite on canvas
80 x 65 cm -
Untitled
2018
Graphite on canvas
80 x 65 cm -
Untitled
2010-2018
Graphite on canvas
60 x 50 cm
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Untitled
2016
Oil and graphite on canvas
230 x 190 cm -
Untitled
2020
Oil on canvas(steel framed)
46 x 33 cm -
Untitled
2020
Oil on canvas(steel framed)
46 x 33 cm -
Untitled
2018
Oil and graphite on paper (steel framed)
54 x 39cm -
Untitled
2018
Oil and graphite on paper (steel framed)
54 x 39cm -
Untitled
2018
Oil and graphite on paper (steel framed)
54 x 39cm
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KEMAL SEYHAN
13 MAY - 10 JUNE 2021
Pi Artworks London is proud to present inaugural solo exhibition of Vienna-Istanbul based artist Kemal Seyhan. For his debut solo exhibition in the UK, Seyhan will present signature paintings from past 3 decades, new paintings, drawings and sculptural objects.
Kemal Seyhan’s paintings in the last two decades are narrated with a narrow language, comprising four words: horizontal - vertical - colour - intensification.
While he pieces the words of this narrow vocabulary together, the artist restricts himself with a series of rules: Starting with black, applying vertical and horizontal on the canvas lengthways, avoiding simple topological relations on the surface of the work –such as large-small, including-included, inside-outside; in this context, not using the color to define the space on the canvas, putting it mainly under intensification’s order creating an excelled surface that disables any three dimensional illusion, leaving everything else (except for the surface), the back or sides of the canvas, out of attention. The works are implemented by applying this vocabulary and rules on canvas deck of times. Kilos of paint is used to color the canvas with thousands of spatula touches to create strata.
About: Kemal Seyhan, b.1960, Kayseri, lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Istanbul, Turkey.
Major exhibitions include; Untitled – Poetics of Inner Space (solo), Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2018); Syntax (solo) Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany (2017); Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul, Freiburg, Museum for Modern Art Freiburg, Germany (2016); Ondas Negras (solo), GPLSpaceVI, Vienna, Austria (2015); 41 Meter (solo), Zorlu Center, Istanbul, Turkey (2013); Sieben Grengänge, House Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria (2011); Kemal Seyhan (solo), Cora Hölzl Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany (2010). Major collections include; Ferdinandeum, Tiroler State Museum, Innsbruck, Austria; Arch Driend Collection, Vienna, Austria; Die Roland Madesta, Nürnberg, Austria; Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum Evliyagil, Ankara, Turkey.
