26th January - 26th April 2008 - 2nd Floor
Paradise is a free exhibition of three major recent works by internationally-respected Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman.
The sculptural installation Paradise (2007) follows on from Ataman’s seminal work Kuba (2005). The artist’s interest in storytelling, identity and community functionality continues as he presents twenty-four video portraits of residents from Orange County, Southern California. Each participant, including the oldest clown in the world, a wedding planner, car and star-obsessed teenagers, and the Laughter Yoga Institute of Laguna Beach, talks candidly and openly to the viewer.
Stefan’s Room (2004) is a playful five screen installation about Stefan Naumann’s obsession with over 30,000 tropical moths which he has collected in his tiny apartment. Turkish Delight (2006) is Ataman’s first performance piece and a semi-fictitious self-portrait. The single screen projection touches upon notions of the West’s gaze towards Turkey, and its definition of the exotic in both a tragic and comic way.
This is the UK premiere for these pieces and the only UK venue for the tour of Paradise.
Ataman lives and works in the UK, Argentina and Turkey. He has exhibited extensively around the world and was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2004.
Click here to visit the Paradise website
Paradise is commissioned by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, and Treaty of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA, the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Paradise is produced by Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü/ The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, Istanbul, Turkey.
Paradise is a free exhibition of three major recent works by internationally-respected Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman.
The sculptural installation Paradise (2007) follows on from Ataman’s seminal work Kuba (2005). The artist’s interest in storytelling, identity and community functionality continues as he presents twenty-four video portraits of residents from Orange County, Southern California. Each participant, including the oldest clown in the world, a wedding planner, car and star-obsessed teenagers, and the Laughter Yoga Institute of Laguna Beach, talks candidly and openly to the viewer.
Stefan’s Room (2004) is a playful five screen installation about Stefan Naumann’s obsession with over 30,000 tropical moths which he has collected in his tiny apartment. Turkish Delight (2006) is Ataman’s first performance piece and a semi-fictitious self-portrait. The single screen projection touches upon notions of the West’s gaze towards Turkey, and its definition of the exotic in both a tragic and comic way.
This is the UK premiere for these pieces and the only UK venue for the tour of Paradise.
Ataman lives and works in the UK, Argentina and Turkey. He has exhibited extensively around the world and was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2004.
Click here to visit the Paradise website
Paradise is commissioned by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, and Treaty of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA, the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Paradise is produced by Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü/ The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, Istanbul, Turkey.
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