#ayse erkmen

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Ayşe Erkmen at Barbara Weiss

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Ayse Erkmen, hot pink/not the color it is, 2014, bronze, patinated, 30 x 20 x 10 cm            

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ARTbmk★ on PHOTO & VIDEOtour @ Skulptur Projekte Muenster 2017 // Jesus-Effekt -- Ayse Erkmens Skulptur-Projekt "On Water" lässt die Besucher im Stadthafen übers Wasser wandeln // Fotos © 2017 by Bertram Maria Keller/ARTbmk★

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Ayse Erkmen - From the series Not the color it is, 2015 (Bronze, patina)

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Ayse Erkmen: Sculptures on Air, 1997. On Water, 2017. Photos: Roman Mensing For me “public space” has a different meaning because for many years I worked only in public space – not that I was commissioned or asked to do so, but because there (Istanbul), there had been no other change/space to show the kind of work I was doing. There were not many art spaces anyway, and the existing few were not interested to show my work. This is till the case even today. Therefore to be able to show my work, I always had to find my own space and my own means. ....., this fact has become so much part of me and my work that even now when I am showing in an “art space”, the first thing I do is to find space out of the normal limits of exhibiting. A. Erkmen, Art in Space. Public Art a Reader. ed. Florian Matzenr. Hatje Cantz Publishers. Munich 2004. pg 47. 

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ayse erkmen

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Ayse Erkmen

Erkmen is a visual artist, born in 1949 in Istanbul. She is a visual artist recognised as “one of the foremost Turkish artists.” Erkmen’s works take the social and physical environment that she is in. However, she doesn’t invent new forms but instead she transforms architectural and social conditions and contexts. He has mentioned “I take everyday objects, or more often situations, which I already see as artworks that are freed from these starting points. There is a long process of working through to reduce and change the direction. The tension may come from the result of this switch of context or the effort to balance the form and function while creating the work.” I love her unique designs that challenge the ‘norm’ and makes the viewer look at her work from a new perspective.