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.
Source: Motherland Newspaper
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.
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 presents countless story materials intertwined with objects that he 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.
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