TATE MODERN
The Gaonkar Haarman Gallery
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This show was a great collection of cultural reflection through different angles. Their installations and their usage of videos and sounds were very powerful in order to react to the notion of identity investigation, displacement experiments, public memories of heroic death and the idea of culture in multi-cultural societies. I could relate very closely to the theme of these works based on my own cultural experiment outside of my home country; therefore I really felt and understood their concept. The combination of mediums in this show was very inspiring for my practice because I am thinking of using motion pictures and videos as part of my drawings.
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TATE MODERN
Modigliani
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It was a privilege for me to have this opportunity to see the great Modigliani’s painting very closely. I was amazed by his technique and his idea of human body…the way he conveyed the figures was fascinating to me because he had used the idea abstraction in a profound direction that the viewer could see another layer of figurative concept.
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Camberwell Space
Drawing event: A History of Drawing
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It was my honor as a drawing student to visit this amazing drawing collection reflecting a history after World War II. It was very educational for me to participate in this symposium. I have learnt a lot about drawing and its definition among our current situation. It was fascinating to see extreme range of drawing as a very traditional direction and also a new reading of drawing which is along more with contemporary art. That event was a great opportunity for me expands my understanding and my knowledge about drawing itself and also others’ readings of drawing as a platform to use in any direction we want to.
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SAATCHI GALLERY
ICONOCLASTS EXHIBITION
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At Saatchi gallery was showing different art pieces with different themes. It was great to see all these broad range collection at once and have this chance to think and compare all together. For me two of those artists were fascinating the most: Maurizio Anzeri and Thomas Maileander. Their techniques were interesting for me because both had used photography as a base but added another layer of craft and drawing on top of those pictures. It was very inspiring for me to think how I can learn from them to incorporate my layering idea into my memory collection of my nostalgic pictures that I want to process my drawings based on.
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Devid Zwirner GALLERY
Bridget Riley
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It was remarkable to be able to watch Bridget Riley compositions and feel the sense of vibrant and movement through simple geometric elements. The optical effect of these geometries repetition had reflected a mysterious feeling of illusion to me. It was a great experiment of spatial and optical illusion being in front of those paintings. Playing with the colors and repetition in her works were very educational for me to learn from it.
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GAZELLI ART HOUSE
her shey qayidacaq
Mikayil Bdullayev, Gennadiy Brijatryuk, Aida Mahmudova, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich
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This show was about the artists’ idea of specific part of Asia, Azerbaijan. The art works were showing different themes and ideas of identity in different directions. It was a good combination of various mediums which was interesting to watch.
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RICHARD SALTOUN GALLERY
WOMEN LOOK AT WOMEN
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This show was a collection of women artists who react to the feminine identity. Each of these artists has reacted to their ideas of their own bodies through different visual representations. I enjoyed visiting this exhibition very much for having this opportunity to see all these various feminist aspects by different artists from around the world. It was inspirational for me to see photographic show and also transformation of their photos on to other materials.
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WHITE CUBE
Minjung Kim
The Memory of Process
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This exhibition was amazing example of showing the process of making. I was astonished by her technique and how she had used the paper to draw. Creating those beautiful rhythms and patterns was reflecting a dynamic abstract composition. It was an illusion of different architectural spaces when I was looking at the details and the drawing on its self. I loved spending time to stand in front of those drawings and just watching and following the lines with my eyes.
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Collyer Bristow Gallery
In The Future
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It was a great experience for me to see all those impressionist artists' paintings specially Monet’s Thames series. It was magical moment to look at those paintings from close distance. Their technique, choice of colors, simplicity and pureness in their paintings were magnificent to watch. Their artistic reaction to their living context ,London was shown in their choice of urban elements which were playing the role of their inspiration.
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Drawing Now Art Fair/Paris, France
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Seventy two galleries had shown their drawing collection in this Drawing Fair in Paris, France. It was a great opportunity for me to be able to go there and visit this amazing collection closely. The fair included contemporary drawings and some master pieces. It was fascinating to visit all different types, subjects, techniques and materials in drawing field. To be able to be there was a chance to compare various drawings all at once in one location. To be familiar with pricing and representational aspect of those drawings were very useful and educational. I was very satisfied to visit some of my favorite artists’ drawing closely. At the same time it was overwhelming to see all those art pieces all at once and to learn more about all those talented and creative artists. I learnt a lot about the usage of different material and techniques in drawings.
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Musee de l'Orangerie - Paris, France
Claude Monet: Water Lilies
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- In the 1890s, Monet developed a Japanese-style water-garden around the pond at his home in Giverny, north-west of Paris. The garden became an ‘outside studio’ for the artist, and the water-lilies floating on the surface of the pond became the principal motif of his later paintings. Filling the canvas, the pond becomes a world in itself, inspiring a sense of immersion in nature. At times verging on abstraction, the water-lily pictures are the culmination of Monet’s fascination with light and its changing effects on the natural environment. - (Gallery Label). ‘Mr Claude Monet has painted the surfaces of the pond where water lilies flourish in a Japanese garden.’ (Alexandre, 1921). Water Lilies painting by Claude Monet were absolutely amazing to visit in person. The colors, scale, composition and the techniques were mesmerizing to watch. It was surreal for me to be there and sit in front of those beautiful and magical paintings.
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Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
Sheila Hicks: Lifelines
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Hicks’s art is simply considered by her unique method using of different materials, her direction to play with colors and textiles in space, and various creative forms within a new existing. ‘What is my work? I studied paintings, sculpture, photography and drawing, but textiles were what most attracted me. I practise a kind of textile art. I create environments, make objects with thread, weave fabrics, build soft sculptures and bas-reliefs; I devote myself to design and produce functional objects using thread.’ This is how Sheila Hicks describes her work. This exhibition was highlighting the idea of poetry, life and love. Her way to build different forms in various scales was challenging the concept of materiality and her immersion in colorful world.
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Newport Street Gallery
Rachel Howard: Repetition is Truth - Via Dolorosa
John Copeland: Your heaven Looks Just Like My Hell
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This series of Howard’s work were about the repetition, iconography, abstraction, human rights and controlled violence. This exhibition presents the challenge of creating balance between control and human agency. We can observe the combination of precision and chance in each painting. Her abstraction in her paintings to reflect political issues.
This exhibition presents Copeland’s figurative and abstraction paintings series. When we look at the paintings we feel that they are still wet. His way of using acrylic and oil color reflect the idea of movement, floating and stillness simultaneously. The works are very ambiguous and tell story of seriousness and play. His idea of using ordinary objects and figures make his paintings more tangible in a way to connect with the artist’s ambitions. |
Tate Britain
All Too Human
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The All Too Human exhibition was a great collection of artists’ exploration in Britain to show cases their captured moments of their life around them by using the possibilities of paintings. This exhibition exhibit a century of art making from early twentieth century till contemporary evolutions paintings. It shows how the artists have captured their subjects from life, regular sitters, including relatives, friends and lovers. It was amazing to visit and understand different narratives in the different artists’ works and be able to compare them with each other. These artists have used their paintings and art in order to speak their minds instead of using words, since the limits of verbal language. ‘Embracing the visual and tactile qualities of paint, these artists set out to explore what it is that makes us human.’ (Tate Britain’s Introduction)
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White Cube
Beatriz Milhazes & Leon Wuidar
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This exhibition presents the paintings which include geometric forms like polygons, squares, rectangles and tubular forms, which are painted in symmetrical arrangements. His direction to create compositions in his paintings was to use repetition and architectural elements. The repetitions and seriality in his works reflect the idea of symmetry, mirror imaging, two and three dimensionality and controlled order. It was interesting and inspiring for me to see another artist’s method how to incorporate geometric forms and shapes in his compositions.
This show was representing optical movements, disturbing things; which disturb viewers’ visions when they look at it. Milhazes’s sculptures are challenging the idea of symbolism and materiality. Her dense physical forms with conceptual layering reflect a richness of form and color to offer a unique visual experience. In her huge hanging three-dimensional sculptures ‘Mariola and Marola’, she is trying to explore the dialogue between forms and chromatic focus. |
Royal Academy of Art
London Original Print Fair
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The London Original Prints Fair was an amazing collection of all different techniques in print making industry. Forty different galleries had presented their selective works for this fair. I learnt a lot about various techniques in print making. Especially being able to visit master pieces of well-known artists was a great opportunity for me. On the other hand the variety in print making was very interesting to observe and have a chance to learn more about the realistic and abstraction style by using print making techniques as a part of the drawing process and in a way become part of the art piece. I really enjoyed visiting all these creative and innovational print making process in this exhibition.
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