Young artist Nesli Türk's solo exhibition titled “Ritual” met with art lovers on November 1, 2022 at Gallery / Miz.
Known for her works on the body and its effects, Nesli Türk traces nature, order, violence and myths in her latest exhibition “Ritual”. The first imaginary stop of the artist, who draws attention with his paint drive that forces forms, is Euripides' tragedy called Bacchalar. The works that emerged from this tragedy focus on the unending "repetition" between nature and man.
The tragedy is about the dismemberment and regret of Pentheus, the King of Thebes, who did not recognize the deity of Dionysus, by his mother Agave, who was thought to be a panther. Generation Turk uses the power of large canvases to give birth to a new Agave from herself, and invokes the Venus of Willendorf and Cybele.
In Nesli Türk's “Ritual” paintings, the experience of breaking down all dualities is also seen in the forms that lead to formlessness. The visibility of permeable and amorphous states in both pattern drawings and oil painting works is also compatible with the Bacchaean tragedy or the thought of Dionysus. In particular, the use of line, shadow and color in terms of the economy of images in Ritual I and Ritual II, both in pencil and colored, as well as in the mixed media Pieta After Michelangelo and Untitled-Polyptic works, presents a plastic teaching in itself.
Known for her works on the body and its effects, Nesli Türk's new exhibition “Ritual” can be seen at Gallery/ Miz until 29 November.
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