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Genco Gulan

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Genco Gulan
Self-portrait with 4 eyes. Oil on Canvas. Pekin Collection.
Born (1969-01-13) 13 January 1969 (age 55)
Istanbul
Died
Versailles,france
NationalityTurkish
EducationThe New School,
Known forContemporary Art, Painting, Sculpture,
MovementIdea art, Post Dada

Genco Gülan (Turkish pronunciation: [dʒendʒo ˈɟylan], born 13 January 1969) is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist, who lives and works in Istanbul. His transmedia contextual work involves painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance and video.[1]

Gülan studied Media at The New School, New York.[2] His art has appeared at Pera Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, ZKM Karlsruhe, Triennale di Milano, Biennial of Tehran and Pompidou Center Paris. Gulan has (had) solo shows at Gallery Arts in Berlin, Istanbul; State Painting and Sculpture Museums in Ankara, Izmir; Foto Gallery Lang, Zagreb and Artda Gallery, Seoul among other places.

Art

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Twin Project, 2011. Performance by twin sisters; Yeliz and Deniz Çelebi.

Gülan uses text, codes and even his own DNA in his art. He is a new media artist.[3] In a video piece called Tele-rugby, he filmed a female swim team playing rugby underwater with a TV monitor.[4]

His experimental works[5] include net-art, web art, AI generated images, Robot Games, SCIgen papers and online videos.[6] Genco uses boron in his sculptures.[7]

Works

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The Android Statue was exhibited at the Antalya Archeology Museum from March 12 to March 20, 2014. Sketches of his kinetic marble statue series titled "Robotic Statues" were also shown. Genco Gülan has been working with robots in various university labs since the mid-1990s, using their hardware and software in his art projects. His artwork "Robots, Football and War (RFW)" was part of the computer game "Balkan Wars," which won an award at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in 1995. His AI-generated play was used in the project "YEN! (New)," presented at the Pera Museum for the 16th Istanbul Theatre Festival.[8]

Swimming Rocks, Çeşme, Alaçatı

Gülan's "The Great Conjugation" was exhibited at Boğaziçi University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, Washburn Hall, in May and June 2014. The installation used roughly 1,000 ties to create a route spanning all five floors of the building. Viewers were invited to bring their ties to add to the installation, which included ties of various colors, designs, and brands. This installation was also displayed at the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Ankara Contemporary Art Center in 2013. In 2011, Genco Gülan was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation European Art Prize and held his first exhibition at the White Saloon inside the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, where he studied Political Science and International Relations from 1987 to 1991.[9]

Karate, 2014, 25×20×20 cm

An exhibition titled "Swimming Rocks" was held on June 27, 2014, at the Art Gallery of Kırmızı Ardıç Kuşu, Gallery Metazori in Çeşme, Alaçatı, where Gülan spent much of his childhood. The "swimming rocks" refer to pumice rocks that float on water, found in the Aegean Sea around Çeşme and Alaçatı. Gülan created the "Swimming Rocks" from these and other stones. Works by his mother, Tezer Gülan, and his grandmother, Saime İzmiroğlu, were also featured. Additionally, Gülan presented his "New Landscape" series, an interpretation of landscapes as barcodes, and his "Digital Ghost" series, which involved painting images from his laptop onto large canvases.[10]

Museum

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As an art project in 1997, Genco Gülan established the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum.[11]

"At first the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum developed as an art series in the manner of Duchamp and Broodthaers until the end of the 1990s. Later it evolved when it was transferred to the Internet. It turned into a new age institution that organized exhibitions, workshops and provided logistic support on cyber space."[12]

For almost a decade, the museum ran a residency program called "I live in a Museum" and hosted artists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Spain, and China at its Galata location.[13]

Gülan's monograph; "Conceptual Colors" edited by Marcus Graf, is co-published by Revolver Publishing in Berlin in collaboration with Artist Istanbul. His books are available at libraries such as the German National Library, SALT Istanbul, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library and the Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University. Gülan founded the Web Biennial[14] at the turn of the century, served on the Board of Balkan Biennial in Thessaloniki, International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore in 2008 and was a guest editor for Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media. He was in the jury for Turgut Pura Art Prize in Izmir and teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Boğaziçi University.[citation needed]

Selected images

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  • Pompidou, From the "I love You series", C-print, Paris, 2007
    Pompidou, From the "I love You series", C-print, Paris, 2007
  • 'Magic Beans' 2013. Sculpture with 600 used neckties and a crane, 150m.
    'Magic Beans' 2013. Sculpture with 600 used neckties and a crane, 150m.
  • Art (Blue), ready-made, 2013.
    Art (Blue), ready-made, 2013.
  • 33.3 QR Code poem
    33.3 QR Code poem

References

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  1. ^ Foroohar, Rana and Matthews, Owen. (28 August 2005). Turkish Delight. Newsweek. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  2. ^ Weshinskey, Anne. (25 August 2011) With Fish or Without. Lab Kultur. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  3. ^ .Vito Campanelli e Danilo Capasso (a cura di), Cultura e nuovi media. Cinque interrogativi di Lev Manovich, Edizioni MAO, Napoli, 2011. ISBN 978-88-95869-00-1
  4. ^ Atakan, Nancy (Spring 2006)FROM NEW MEDIA FROM THE PERIPHERY Archived 1 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of the New Media Caucus. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  5. ^ Reil, Alexandra. (25 August 2011) Art Following the Trend?. Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 5 June 2012
  6. ^ Landi, Ann (1 September 2009)What they see in Van Gogh's ear. ARTnews. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  7. ^ Utku, Ahsen (23 April 2011)Genco Gulan sends messages to the future through art Archived 25 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  8. ^ RHIZOME: The Android Statue, Genco Gulan. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  9. ^ RHIZOME: The Great Conjugation, Genco Gulan. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  10. ^ ALAÇATI KIRMIZI ARDIÇ GALERİ Archived May 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  11. ^ Gibbons, Fiachra. (13 June 2006) Istanbul set to stamp its culture credentials - Arts & Leisure. The New York Times (International Herald Tribune). Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  12. ^ Graf, Marcus. Conceptual Colors of Genco Gulan, Revolver Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-3868952049
  13. ^ Lubelski, Abraham. (22 December 2006) Contemporary Istanbul Archived 11 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Art Fairs International. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  14. ^ Lev, Julia. (27 January 2011) Plato's new exhibition brings net-art to the fore Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 6 June 2012.

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