Bozlu Art Project Mongeri Building will be hosting the exhibition “Outlier Works” between 17 May-31 August, focusing on the unknown works of well-known artists of Turkish art. The exhibition, curated by Oğuz Erten, with its title “Outlier Works”, focuses on the works of the artists in the exhibition, which are mostly unknown or open to contradictory readings in terms of content.
The exhibition features remarkable works of art by Halil Akdeniz, Ercan Akın, Ali Alışır, Özdemir Altan, Cihat Burak, Server Demirtaş, Sinan Demirtaş, İnci Eviner, Murat Germen, Can Göknil, Meriç Hızal, Tülay İçöz, Balkan Naci İslimyeli, Kazım Karakaya, Nur Koçak, Gamze Taşdan, Ömer Uluç and many other valuable artists. By allowing the audience to look at and read art history away from the known cliques, this exhibition also aims to pave the way for new ways of thinking by revealing that a new and alternative way of writing art history is also possible.
Given that art is a laboratory field and the artist is someone who constantly tries again and again and again like a scientist, and considering that the trials s/he makes in his/her investigations to find the result s/he desires are indispensable for the result, the “Outlier Works” that emerge in these deviations almost assume gigantic proportions for the history of art. The question as to which direction his/her art would have taken if s/he had continued to work in the outliers is the real intellectual climax of the exhibition. Moreover, “Outlier Works” is also an indication of how much the artist has tried and laboured to find his/her style. A treasored quote by Thomas Edison sums up the process very well: “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Opening on 17 May at Bozlu Art Mongeri Building, the exhibition “Outlier Works” will be on view at Bozlu Art’s temporary exhibitions gallery throughout the summer. The exhibition will end on 31 August!