No Distance’ is a project produced by the collaboration of Istanbul’s Pg Art Gallery and Tokyo’s Niche Gallery. Pg Art Gallery’s represented artists Kemal Tufan, Ali Kabaş, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Genco Gülan and Ayşe Wilson will be exhibiting at the Niche Gallery in May.
Establishing his works on the fundemental concept of “contrast and contradiction”, Kemal Tufan creates statues using different materials and also produces installation, performance and video art. Statues by the artist who has taken part in many a symposium can be seen in various cities all over the world. The artist’s ironic style confronts us once again in his recent works with different materials and tecniques.
A significant representative of contemporary photography, Ali Kabaş stikes us with his distinct work. The artist’s photographs set before our eyes a vast visial world and take us on diverse adventures not only with the different techniques employed, but also via the subjects focused on. Showing us once again the world in its plainest form of expression as seen through his eyes, the artist succeeds in creating a sensation of freedom with his speculative photographs as he does with his aerial, land and underwater photography.
Standing out with works he creates using make-up, artificial light, computer generated textures, 3 dimentional models, digital print and photographs; void, apathy and repetition specially draw attention in Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s art which is laden with marks of the digital age. The speculative language utilized by the artist is to a great extent nurtured with commercials, cinema and art history. While evoking the cold and harsh emptiness of the virtual world, at the same time the artist establishes an important bond between the audience and his art through the concentration of introverted sensations.
Producing works in the fields of conceptual art and new media, Genco Gülan nas attracted notice with his video, installation, performance and photography art. An important name in contemporary art, Genco Gülan frequently makes use of digital technologies in his works which display diverse materials and subjects. Taking part in many festivals around the world his works have been on show at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Proje 4L and Pera in İstanbul, ZKM in Karlsruhe, MAM in Rio de Janeiro and at important exhibitions in Triennale Milano.
A graduate of Wellesley College, Ayşe Wilson was raised in Boston and currently lives in New York. Adopting classical academic education and painting techniques, the artist was assistant to one of contemporary art’s most celebrated names Jeff Koons, after she completed her masters degree at the New York Academy of Art in 2004. Taking special interest in the interaction between female forms, postures and moves, and the physical and psychological conditions from a Expressionist and Impressionist point of view, the sentimental and calm forms in Renaissance paintings with religious themes constitute the artist’s fundamental source of inspiration. Ayşe Wilson’s works reflect that as long as the positive aspect is not lost, all the hardship and deprivation that live brings can be overcome.