Gülgün Başarır “Interface, Mountain and Reflected Shadow”

GÜLGÜN BAŞARIR

INTERFACE “Mountain and Reflected Shadow”

Gülgün Başarır’s 17th solo exhibition titled Interface “Mountain and Reflected Shadow” is at Art Suites Gallery. The artist brings together his abstraction and abstract paintings, which he creates with two different situations, two different expressions and which he associates with the title “Interface”.

According to Başarır, everything visible is an interface in which the truth is hidden. The pictorial surface of the paintings that bear the traces of the artist’s process of becoming free from easy acceptance is an interface.

He leaves the end of meaning open in his successful paintings. Each picture asks the viewer to find their own meaning. In a geography where words are politicized, the meaning of the word mountain will be different for those who perceive the picture in their own conceptuality or in their own pictoriality.

In his paintings named Mountain, the artist expresses the mountain with abstraction in a pictorial space with his physical existence, while making the mountain a mountain. In his paintings titled Reflected Shadow, he emphasizes the shadow and the reflection form of the shadow, leaving the environment in which the shadows are reflected undefined.

While the mountain is a sign of sublimity, inaccessibility and its existence forever, the abstracted shadows in Reflected Shadow paintings are indicators of impermanence and variability with their forms. Within the scope of the exhibition, two different subjects associated with each other create a contrast with two different expressions. One is like a living body, representing the “other” relative to the other.

While Başarır highlighted the traces of human in his previous exhibition titled “Time of Time”, this theme was retracted in his exhibition titled Interface. The selected elements exist only with their own reality. The artist brings the viewer face to face with the reality of the painting.