Pg Art Gallery is pleased to host Egemen Kemal Vuruşan’s exhibition “Circus in the City” between December 24 and January 3, 2025.
“Circus in the City” is the glass-sculptural manifestation of the small performances we unwittingly carry out within the modern city—its role shifts, masks, mismatches, and surprising encounters. Each form is constructed like the reassembling of a feeling shattered while passing through the city.
In the figures that bear the traces of a maximalist way of thinking, colors, patterns, and surfaces come together in a consciously discordant harmony. They evoke a dynamic aesthetic—like elements spinning and colliding in a mixer before suddenly finding their own character. This approach makes visible not only the chaos of contemporary life but also the contradictions within one’s inner world.
The series is not merely a formal play; it is the recoding of the city’s heterogeneity, rhythm, and energy within glass. Each figure, seemingly cheerful and playful at first glance, reveals unexpected details, small surprises, and an almost hidden inner dialogue as the viewer approaches.
What makes this world possible are Vuruşan’s advanced hot-glass techniques. Reticello, filigree, and complex hot-shaping methods reveal both the mastery of traditional glass craftsmanship and the bodily, intuitive relationship established with the material. The thin line between control and uncontrollability inherent to glass forms the aesthetic DNA of the series:
A melting boundary, an unexpected curve, a hand that does not dominate the form but flows with it…
“Circus in the City” brings the archetype of the jester—who has historically embodied society’s exaggerations, contradictions, and comic–tragic states—into a contemporary context. Yet here, the figure is no longer a character but a reflection of the city itself, a moving energy topography.
The resulting works are not merely colorful and joyful; they also evoke the order within chaos, the harmony within dissonance, and the consciousness within the unpredictable. Each piece carries a story filtered through the city, a rhythm captured in glass, and a playful dynamism that draws the viewer inward.
