Hot Spot Istanbul Ebru Uygun Exhibition Catalogue [German]

This catalogue was printed within the context of the exhibition titled Hot Spot Istanbul that took place at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich on June 6-September 22, 2013 by Kehrer Verlag. Accompanying this exhibition that looks into the nuances between abstraction, reduction, minimal art, conceptual art, and object art, the catalogue features a presentation of the curator Dorothea Strauss and a text by Thomas Wulffen, in German and English. Over the past ten years or so, Ebru Uygun has developed a complex way of handling the medium of painting, which constitutes a link between the act of painting on canvas, a deconstruction thereof, and a subsequent synthesis: Uygun tears several previously painted canvases into strips, a process which is physically quite strenuous, and collages these strips in a new sequence on another canvas. This process of fragmentation and synthesis gives rise to abstract constellations, the components of which hint at a possible, former whole, which nevertheless remains intangible. She causes a new image to emerge, in which everything that essentially constitutes painting is put under scrutiny: the image ground, the colors, the forms, and the image space which painting can thus create -be it representational, abstract or concrete. Ebru Uygun's solo and group exhibitions are as follows: Complicit , Dirimart, Istanbul (2002); Things, C.A.M Gallery, Istanbul (2003); Breath, Mac Art Gallery, Istanbul (2005); Trace, Mac Art Gallery, Istanbul (2006); Dirimart Presents, Dirimart, Istanbul (2009); Time For a Dream, Dirimart, Istanbul (2009); Istanbul Cool: Turkish Contemporary Art at Close Proximity, New York (2010); Confessions of Dangerous Minds, Saatchi Gallery, London (2011); Lucid Dreaming, Green Art Gallery, Dubai (2011); In Time and Rhythm, Dirimart, Istanbul (2012); Past and Present, Istanbul Modern (2013); Hot Spot Istanbul, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2013); Inside, Yallay Gallery, Hong Kong (2013); Random Process, Dirimart Nisantasi, Istanbul (2016); Surface and Beyond, Dirimart Dolapdere, Istanbul (2016); and Cloud in a Raindrop, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, 2017.