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Volkan.
Volkan.
10.01.2005
Back on Biennial
The magnificient trio (me, my love and mügü) visited the remaining buildings of The 9th International Istanbul Biennial.
This part was more interesting than the previous one.
The most interesting of all wat the artwork of Y.Z. Kami, who is best known "for his portraits of humble, unremarkable people with compact and acute gazes".
For the Biennial, Kami photographed scenes from Konya during "Mavlid" (the celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday).
And there were his sculptures all around the floor.
I cannot exatly tell about the artwork. You have to see it for yourself. There were stone circles with various sizes on the entire floor.
Just quoting a passage so that you may have a feeling of what it looks like.
"In Kami's sculptural installation, Sufi philosophy is echoed by the circular orbit of the alabaster stones, each one painstakingly preapared and inscribed with verses from Mevlana's The Book of Shams-e Tabrizi.The scultpture evokes, in one sweep, Kami's Persian heritage, the stonework in Seljukid, religious architecture in Central Asia and the ornamental aesthetics of that region that have been fundamental to his practice for the last ten years."
As a side note: point is to man, and circle (or sphere) is to God in Sufi philosophy. Not only in Sufi school but also in many ecsoteric schools (in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, --hypotetically speaking: in Mu and Atlantis, may be--) the usage the same symbolism to express god-human-god, point-sphere-point relationship is worth thinking.
That's for today.
Cheers!
This part was more interesting than the previous one.
The most interesting of all wat the artwork of Y.Z. Kami, who is best known "for his portraits of humble, unremarkable people with compact and acute gazes".
For the Biennial, Kami photographed scenes from Konya during "Mavlid" (the celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday).
And there were his sculptures all around the floor.
I cannot exatly tell about the artwork. You have to see it for yourself. There were stone circles with various sizes on the entire floor.
Just quoting a passage so that you may have a feeling of what it looks like.
"In Kami's sculptural installation, Sufi philosophy is echoed by the circular orbit of the alabaster stones, each one painstakingly preapared and inscribed with verses from Mevlana's The Book of Shams-e Tabrizi.The scultpture evokes, in one sweep, Kami's Persian heritage, the stonework in Seljukid, religious architecture in Central Asia and the ornamental aesthetics of that region that have been fundamental to his practice for the last ten years."
As a side note: point is to man, and circle (or sphere) is to God in Sufi philosophy. Not only in Sufi school but also in many ecsoteric schools (in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, --hypotetically speaking: in Mu and Atlantis, may be--) the usage the same symbolism to express god-human-god, point-sphere-point relationship is worth thinking.
That's for today.
Cheers!
