The works featured in Hale Sontaş’s exhibition, which will open on April 4 at Pg Art Gallery, are gathered under three separate titles:
“And the Woman’s Name is Marilyn”
“And the Name of Fear is Hitchcock”
“And the Gods of the Earth”
The first section is dedicated to a legend of world cinema, Marilyn Monroe. This famous Gemini star still lives on in our memories with her beautiful body. Although a long time has passed since her death, her image as a sex symbol has never changed. For this reason, the body in the artist’s works appears strikingly fresh. Life, death, and immortality are intertwined. This section includes single-panel silkscreen works measuring 100 x 70 cm, as well as oil paintings.
In the second section, the artist focuses on Hollywood’s mysterious director of suspense and horror films, Alfred Hitchcock, symbolizing him with his zodiac sign, Leo. This part of the exhibition was prepared as a tribute to a great master who took fear as the primary emotion in his films and built his cinematic language upon it. As in her other works, Sontaş presents Hitchcock through silkscreen, oil painting, and collage techniques, once again incorporating elements of irony.
In the third section, under the title “Gods of the Earth,” stars such as Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kim Novak, Clark Gable, and Selim İleri are featured.
Hale Sontaş’s solo exhibition, consisting of these three sections, can be viewed at Pg Art Gallery between April 4 and April 30, 2000, every day except Mondays.
