Sculptor Akbar Sürsal presented his works, which he called ’Urban Layers", to art lovers in Artgalerim Karaköy on November 16. 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 continue to be exhibited until December 9, 2023.
Sculptor Akbar Sürsal presented his works, which he calls ”Urban Layers", all of which were created with recycled materials, to the appreciation of art lovers with the opening ceremony held last week in Artgalerim Karaköy.
Inspired by John Berger, who says “The thing that holds everything together is emptiness,” Sürsal created his works by evaluating recycling materials and Deconstructing the illustrations he intricately stacked. ‘City Layers’, a series of works that he turned into sculptures with bold and dominant colors, is a symbolic fiction that stands out when looking at the whole of the works.
Using unusual materials such as polyurethane derivative and ‘Ethyl Vinyl Acetate’ called ‘Eva’, which are formed by combining two materials other than traditional, this series of Sürsal's works is light enough to contrast Decently with its large dimensions.
THE FORMS HE CREATES DRAW THE AUDIENCE INTO THEIR STORIES
We are always after images in the cities where we live with squares, streets, historical structures and a lot 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".
Sürsal offers its audience countless story materials intertwined with objects that it sometimes consciously, sometimes intuitively places inside the Urban Layers. Rather than being a storyteller, he prefers to draw the audience into his own stories with the forms he creates.
Who is AKBAR SURSAL?
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.
Sürsal, who attended the Master's program in Art Theory and Criticism at Işık University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Art Science between 2009 and 2010, 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 still making relief, object and lighting designs in addition to sculpture and painting works in his own workshop in Istanbul, he is also producing custom-made designs for the construction sector.
Publications:
- Akbar Sürsal, ”Julia Fullerton-Batten", a conversation on the concepts of being and time, Academy Art, Issue: 2, p. 32-33 (2010)
- Akbar Sürsal, ”On the Time Jump in Francis Bacon", Art Art Kunst, p. 12-13 (2011)
Exhibitions:
- Gallery Selvin Sculpture Exhibition 2019
- Art Contact Fair, Istanbul 2022
- Akeramos Art Center, Bursa 2023
Projects:
- YBM Design-Faruk Hospital, Northern Iraq. 26x3.55 m glass lowering Water-Themed Composition. December 2012.< / li>
- YBM Design-Entes. 110x560 cm glass lowering wall panel work. October 2013.< / li>
- TOSB-Social Facilities. 20x9 m, Birds Relief Work with the Theme of Freedom. July 2016.< / li>
- It's Good that There is a Uskudar- Combines Art For a Barrier-Free Life Project: Artistic works made using recycling materials in garden, social areas within the scope of the project. May 2017.< / li>
- Maximum Contact-Work on hotel room wall accessories, Antalya. November 2018.< / li>
- Istanbul Surgical Hospital- Evil Eye Bead Lighting Study. May 2019.< / li>
- Ataköy Mansions- 4x150x370 cm Geometric Relief Work. 10x65x300 cm Triangular Relief Work. September 2019.< / li>
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