The works, all of which are created with recycling materials, open up to multilateralism both in form and content. Sürsal's ’Urban Layers" Exhibition will be open to visitors until December 9, 2023.
We are always in pursuit of images in the cities where we live with squares, streets, historical structures and a pile of buildings added to them. Each of us watches the flowing life from our own point of view and we pass through the streets of the city with completely different impressions every time.
We are not questioning whether their structures, loaded with layers like clothes passed on top of each other, fit or did not fit. Akbar Sürsal invites us to a personal image journey under our own guidance with the intricate forms he puts in front of us in his exhibition called ’Urban Layers".
THE FORMS HE CREATES DRAW THE VIEWER INTO HIS OWN STORIES
The artist was inspired by John Berger, who said, ’The thing that holds everything together is emptiness“ with his works called ”Urban Layers". Dec. And with every glance at the works exhibited by Sürsal, we visualize our own story one more layer.
‘Urban Layers" is a series of works in which the artist transforms the illustrations that he has intricately stacked by evaluating the recycling materials into sculptures with bold and dominant colors by embodying them." When viewed as a whole, it highlights a symbolic fiction.
This series of Sürsal, which uses polyurethane derivatives and unusual materials in its works, is light enough to contrast with its large dimensions.
Sürsal presents countless story materials intertwined with objects that he sometimes deliberately, sometimes intuitively places inside the City Layers. Rather than being a storyteller, he prefers to draw the audience into his own stories with the forms he creates.
Who is AKBAR SÜRSAL?
Akbar Sürsal was born in Istanbul in 1971 and graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Anadolu University in 1994. The artist participated in various sculpture workshops for his professional development at Wichita State University in the USA, and continued his work in the advertising industry between Dec 1997 and 2001, in Skala, Artist and Art Life magazines between Dec 2001 and Dec 2007, and then in post production as a re-touch artist.
between 2009 and 2010, Sürsal attended the Master's Program in Art Theory and Criticism at the Department of Art Science of the Institute of Social Sciences of Işık University, Prof. Halil Painting from the Mediterranean and Asst. Assoc. He took Sculpture lessons from Bülent Çınar. Having completed his Master's Thesis on the topic “An Analogy between El Greco and Francis Bacon for the Deformation Principle in the Context of Being and Time”, the artist has also participated in many art seminars.
The artist is currently making relief, object and lighting designs in addition to sculpture and painting works in his own workshop in Istanbul, and also produces custom-made designs for the construction industry.
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