26.10.2007 - 28.11.2007
Galeri Nev Ankara




The 2007-2008 season at the Galeri Nev Ankara continues with the solo show of Murat Akagündüz.
In his exhibition entitled “Ankara”, Akagündüz is using the iconic places and figures of the capital city as tools for rethinking over the idea and the history of modernization in Turkey. At the same time Akagündüz is also looking for for the contemporary meanings these places and figures occupy in today’s daily life.
Akagündüz is graduated from the Painting Department of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Academy in 1995 and opened his first solo show the following year, in Istanbul. He was among the founding members of the “Hafriyat” group, which nourished itself from the sociology of the city and of “being urban”, and took part in many exhibitions with the “Hafriyat” artists. “The False World” opened in Munich in 2004, “Production Error” organized within the framework of the 2005 Istanbul Biennial, and the “Fiscal Officers” opened in Istanbul in 2006, drawing particular attention with its comprehensive catalogue compiled by the Hafriyat Publications, can be cited as recent examples of “Hafriyat” exhibitions. Resisting the “art market”, since May 2007 Hafriyat is also organizing group exhibitions in their own showroom in Karaköy while the group members continue their solo shows in Ankara and Istanbul.
“Imaginary Vision”, opened in Istanbul in 2003, within that framework, is set on one of the “musts” of urban life: “the holiday”. The brochures pledges of multi-star holiday resorts and the decorated windows of travel agencies are the inspiration of the “sociological landscapes” Akagündüz creates. On the other hand, in “Lost Dreams”, opened in 2005, Akagünüz’s emphasis on “political landscapes” and particularly on the urban tension between the center and the periphery.
Following the same path in his latest show “Ankara”, which will be on view in Nev, from October 26 till November 21, Akagündüz is painting the Kafkaesque places of the capital city.

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Galeri Nev Ankara
gezegen sokak 5
gaziosmanpaşa 06700, ankara
Turkey
TEL : (312) 437 93 90
ankara@galerinev.com
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