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HAT & PERA - '' If You Want To See The Sea...''
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HAT & PERA - '' If You Want To See The Sea...'' Installation

Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

Turkey

Installation, Oil on Fabric

Size: 9.8 W x 9.8 H x 5.1 D in

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Hats hang from the ceilining .This hat's views still make you feel you're walking in that area with the old Istanbuliteses. Even if Istanbul residents disappear one by one, with their artworks, lives and the values left by their, courtesy and cultural wealth they slowly took off their hats to us and greeted us. She thinks especially the old Istanbulites miss the old Istanbul very much. HAT & PERA - '' If you want to see the sea ... '' As you walk through the relatively narrow streets of Pera and the wide main street Istiklal Street, you actually forget that the sea is a bit far. This is one of the seven hills of Istanbul and only the terraces of tall buildings have sea views. Even if the buildings impress you with their old and elegant decorations, look at the sky as you look at them as you raise their faces towards the sky and get bored in the crowd of people. This famous Turkish writer and poet Sebahattin Ali brings the following famous strings of his poem written in Sinop Prison:" If you want to see the sea, Flip up overhead your face The sea is like the sky, Don't mind, heart, don't mind! " Even though the city is beautiful, it sometimes reminds her of the prison. In 2007 she recontructioned this installation for the movie "Fog and Night" by Turgut Yasalar adapted from Ahmet Ümit's book. İt has been exhibited in Artshop İstanbul (2003-2004). It was organized and exhibited, as a joint installation with Fatih Sungurtekin, Strategies No: Spaces & Form Exhibition, Curator Marcus Graf (2004) , Siemens Art Gallery/İstanbul. While famous Athena group sing their song ''For Real'' on 49 international Eurovision song contest . ''Infinite Art'' named the hat which was worn by the group member Hakan Özoğuz was made by Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin in 2004. The artist revised the artwork again in 2024.

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9.8 W x 9.8 H x 5.1 D in

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GÖKNİL GÜMÜŞ SUNGURTEKİN Painter | TURKEY BORN IN 1977 Conceptual Expressionist Contemporary Turkish Artist Lives and works in Turkey « I am an Expressionist artist. My art is what I am: energetic, sincere, honest, ambitious, brave, strong, warrior, valuable, meaningful and impressive. » Award Winning Artist First Turkish Female Naval & Navy Artist Selected to BIEAF World Artists 10 List Marmara University Fine Arts Institute Painting Department Master's Degree International disclosure Art Fair Participant Works in Private Collections Worldwide Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin is a passionate Turkish painter whose works have been featured in exhibitions, publications and awards across the country and international contemporary art fairs. Ultimately, she tries to convey her understanding of love, life and consciousness with sincerity and originality. Influenced by her own dreams and memories, she explores themes such as femininity, anxiety, fear and joy through an Expressionist style. She seeks ultimately to communicate her own understandings of love, life and consciousness with sincerity and authenticity. Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin is an expressionist artist. Therefore, her art is associated with "German Expressionism", sincere art, "Psychological Art", "Primitive Art", "Symbolic Art" and the Philosophy of Existence. Her artistic subjects and concepts are often based on moments and memories she lived and dreamed of. Life is intuitive, as precious as moments and memories that make her feel meaning, excitement, passion ... Imagination and wishes intensified, How it should be or unexpected and mockingly, moments full of humor and energy ... Vacation, solution, aphorisms, proposition, inference, conclusion includes moments, memories, and thoughts. Instant mood changes, psychological analysis and synthesis, moments of awareness and comprehension ... Anxiety, fear, joy, sadness, pain, enthusiasm, etc. situations, phenomena and events ... Life stories and personal descriptions, concepts, traumas, existential and subconscious stories ... Topics such as female energy, self-worth, self-esteem, self-love, self-confidence, energy, balance, connection, quantum and mysticism.

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