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Nesli Turk

İstanbul, Şişli, Turkey

Basic theme of my work consists of concepts such as flesh-body and abject. Melancholia-black bile wh...

About the artist

Nesli Turk

Joined In 2021

(3 Followers)

About the artist

Nesli Turk

Joined In 2021

(3 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS

Basic theme of my work consists of concepts such as flesh-body and abject. Melancholia-black bile which is constantly felt due to the corruption of body is also
a phenomenon dominates my work. While reconstructing boundary conditions by forcing frame, I take figures out of the canvas by means of depiction phenomenal perception of massive bodies. One of the preeminent contests seen in my painting is ‘flesh’-the word doesn’t have any correspondence in Turkish-. We can only get the meaning word ‘flesh’ by gathering couple of words together such as skin, meat and
lust.
By taking the body as a fundamental issue, I produce works that refer the black bile, which is the substance of melancholy, through the floating bodily fluids, the mouth and bodily functions such as vomiting and bleeding. I make an analogy between the four humors theory of the antiquity and the body-abject concepts of contemporary art while portraying the modern-objective reality of flesh. Copper (yellow color), especially silver and gray have an important role in my paintings: When we consider the materiality of Saturn, the dark planet which is regarded as the counterpart of the melancholy in the microcosm, we confront with earth and lead. Kiefer uses lead in his w...

Born in Turkey-İzmir, in 1983
2002-2003: İstanbul Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Plastic Arts
2003-2009: İstanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Painting
2009-2013: (Masters) Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Painting. Dissertation Work: Expressive Body Image in 20 th Century Art.
2010-2011: (Masters) Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design-The University of Art and Design, Halle, Germany
2013-2017: (Proficiency in Art) Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. Dissertation Work: Association of Expressive Body with the Concept of Melancholy in the Art of Painting.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
December 2012: Memory of Body (İstanbul) Akademililer Art Center
May 2015: Black Sensation (İstanbul) KARŞI Art Works
March 2019: Corpus Magnum (İstanbul) Merkur Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Tüyap Art Fair
2008 68th State Painting-Sculpture Exhibition
2009 69th State Painting-Sculpture Exhibition
2008 Tüyap Art Fair
2009 Casa Dell’Arte Gallery, Young Artists Group Exhibition, Bodrum
2009 Casa Dell’Arte Gallery, Young Artists Group Exhibition, Istanbul
2010 MKM Young Masters/Master Youngs Exhibition
2010 “No, It Was Me!” international group exhibition
2010 Women’s Day Group Exhibition, Izmir
2010 70th State Painting-Sculpture Exhibition
2011 Art Bosphorus International Contemporary Art Fair
2011 Other Bodies Exhibition, Akademililer Art Center
2011 International Art Center ‘100 Young Faces’
2011 Antrepo- Istanbul Summer Exhibition
2012 Tüyap Artist
2012 Küçükçekmece Painting Competition Exhibition
2013 ArtRandS Young Art Exhibition, Izmir
2013 Humanity, Akademililer Art Center
2013 Oasis, Osaka-Istanbul International Exhibition, Tophane-i Amire
2013 Artist Tüyap, Doruk Art Gallery2013 Artist Tüyap, main hall
2013 KAV Art Gallery, Small Works-II
2014 Mabeyn Gallery, group exhibition
201...