Nalan Yırtmaç
19
Jul 09
metin text
Nalan Yırtmaç was an active member of a group of young artists who managed to enunciate a post-punk scene in Istanbul in the first half of nineties.
Psychedelic iconographies and figures taken from urban subcultures, aesthetic references to local kitsch and the ironic use of low-tech media used to shape their activities based around music and these have recently been transposed to different modes of visual production.
Nalan Yırtmaç, whose formal painting formation in the fine art academy allowed her to focus on the visual dimension right from the start, has documented the quotidian adventures of this subcultural collective in a journal-like methodology.
Her simple and immediate painting techniques, such as stenciling and graffiti now adorn the back streets of the city centre and contribute to the ongoing critical struggle against the rapid sterilisation and gentrification of the core of the city.
In opposition to the local art scene that intensively employs representations, allegories and direct political references, Yırtmaç’s works remain insistently focused on the lightness of everyday life.
Some of her recent art works that touch the issues of political repression and the consequent violence permeating everyday life make use of the grotesque quality contained within the images published by the mainstream media.
Similar to the works of other artists sharing her subcultural formation, Yırtmaç’s practice appeals strategically to the variant iconographies of local popular culture, particularly to the imagery from the early years of cultural liberalisation and consumerism, starting in the fifties and extending into the sixties and seventies.)
A certain sense of parody mocks the awkwardness in them -melodramatic cinema, cheap action and sex films, Mediterranean music, posters of early divas, photo-novels, weekly pictorial magazines etc.
Nevertheless, Yırtmaç’s retro-style expresses sympathy to the relative innocence and primitive quality present in this material, clearly privileged over the mechanic, corporate spectacle boom produced by the turbo-capitalism of the last two decades of this country.
ERDEN KOSOVA 2006
17
Jul 09
cv
1994- graduated at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Painting -studio Özer Kabas
exibitions
2009 "Sulukule:Lieu vole " Maison Folie Moulins Lille-France
2009"haksiz tahrik,Unfair excitement" curator:Canan Senol Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2008 "Index" curator:Daniella Gregory,Deniz Ova Wien-Avustria
2008 "coincidences,Intuitions,Fictions on Istanbul curator :Deniz Erbas atlas pasaji-Istanbul
2008 "Nature of Things" Karsi Sanat Calismalari-Istanbul
2008 Tatiana Doll ,Nalan Yirtmac Autocenter Gallery -Berlin
2008 "Stadtuerbindungen"Kunst museum Erlangen Erlangen-Almanya
2007 "Sobe! " curator:Leyla Gediz Bilsar -Istanbul
2007 "your stomach bigger than your eyes"10.th IstabulBienale-Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2007 "Alternative Ellection Posters" Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2007 " 11 ayin sultani -sultans of 11 mounths"Hafriyat Group Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2007 "Contenporary transport"Hafriyat Group DSM ve Keciburcu Müzesi-Diyarbakir
2007 "Modern and the rest-Modern ve Ötesi " curator:Fulya Erdemci ,Santralistanbul-Istanbul
2007 "Müdehale-tackle"Streetart Exibition Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2006 Solo exibition St. Georg Galerie-Istanbul
2006 "Spring cleaning-Bahar temizligi"Fulya Cetin,Nalan Yirtmac-Karsi Sanat Calismalari
2006 "Pattern-motif" Michele Thursz Borusan galeri-Istanbul
2006 "sckechbook exibiton-istanbul defterdarlari-Karsi Sanat Calismalari Istanbul
2005 "Production fault" 9.th Istanbul Bienale Antrepo5-istanbul
2004 Kooperatif Tüyap art Fair Istanbul
2004 "Berlin.Istanbul-vice,versa" curator:Christoph Tannert-BethanienBibliothek-Berlin
2004 "The False World" Hafriyat group Rathausgalerie-Munich
2004 "Rainbow and boredom" curator:Levent Calikoglu Akbank Sanat-Istabbul
2003 "Istabul" Curator:Erden Kosova,Basak Senova Graz -Avustria
2003 "Family Special" Karsi Sanat Calismalari-Istanbul
2003 "Dangerous Things" curator:Levent Calikoglu-Karsi Sanat Calismalari -Istanbul
2002 Kooperatif Group Exibition Kargart galery-Istanbul
2000 Hafriyat Group Exibition ODTÜ-Ankara
1999 "Hain Geceler-Treacherouse Nights" Nur Apartmani-Istanbul
exibitions
2009 "Sulukule:Lieu vole " Maison Folie Moulins Lille-France
2009"haksiz tahrik,Unfair excitement" curator:Canan Senol Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2008 "Index" curator:Daniella Gregory,Deniz Ova Wien-Avustria
2008 "coincidences,Intuitions,Fictions on Istanbul curator :Deniz Erbas atlas pasaji-Istanbul
2008 "Nature of Things" Karsi Sanat Calismalari-Istanbul
2008 Tatiana Doll ,Nalan Yirtmac Autocenter Gallery -Berlin
2008 "Stadtuerbindungen"Kunst museum Erlangen Erlangen-Almanya
2007 "Sobe! " curator:Leyla Gediz Bilsar -Istanbul
2007 "your stomach bigger than your eyes"10.th IstabulBienale-Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2007 "Alternative Ellection Posters" Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2007 " 11 ayin sultani -sultans of 11 mounths"Hafriyat Group Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2007 "Contenporary transport"Hafriyat Group DSM ve Keciburcu Müzesi-Diyarbakir
2007 "Modern and the rest-Modern ve Ötesi " curator:Fulya Erdemci ,Santralistanbul-Istanbul
2007 "Müdehale-tackle"Streetart Exibition Hafriyat Karaköy-Istanbul
2006 Solo exibition St. Georg Galerie-Istanbul
2006 "Spring cleaning-Bahar temizligi"Fulya Cetin,Nalan Yirtmac-Karsi Sanat Calismalari
2006 "Pattern-motif" Michele Thursz Borusan galeri-Istanbul
2006 "sckechbook exibiton-istanbul defterdarlari-Karsi Sanat Calismalari Istanbul
2005 "Production fault" 9.th Istanbul Bienale Antrepo5-istanbul
2004 Kooperatif Tüyap art Fair Istanbul
2004 "Berlin.Istanbul-vice,versa" curator:Christoph Tannert-BethanienBibliothek-Berlin
2004 "The False World" Hafriyat group Rathausgalerie-Munich
2004 "Rainbow and boredom" curator:Levent Calikoglu Akbank Sanat-Istabbul
2003 "Istabul" Curator:Erden Kosova,Basak Senova Graz -Avustria
2003 "Family Special" Karsi Sanat Calismalari-Istanbul
2003 "Dangerous Things" curator:Levent Calikoglu-Karsi Sanat Calismalari -Istanbul
2002 Kooperatif Group Exibition Kargart galery-Istanbul
2000 Hafriyat Group Exibition ODTÜ-Ankara
1999 "Hain Geceler-Treacherouse Nights" Nur Apartmani-Istanbul
