Genco Gulan
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Genco Gülan | |
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![]() Self-portrait with 4 eyes. Oil on Canvas. Pekin Collection. | |
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Nationality | Turkish |
Education | The New School |
Known for | Contemporary Art, Painting, Sculpture |
Movement | Idea art, Post Dada |
Genco Gülan (Turkish pronunciation: [dʒendʒo ˈɟylan], born 13 January 1969) is a conceptual artist and theorist who lives and works in Istanbul. His multidisciplinary work includes painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance, and video.[1]
Gülan studied Media at The New School, New York.[2] His art has appeared in Pera Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, ZKM Karlsruhe, Triennale di Milano, Biennial of Tehran, and Pompidou Center Paris. Gülan has had solo shows at the Gallery Arts in Berlin, Istanbul; State Painting and Sculpture Museums in Ankara, Izmir; Foto Gallery Lang, Zagreb; and Artda Gallery, Seoul.
Art
[edit]Gülan is a new media artist[3] who uses text, codes and his own DNA in his art. In a video piece called Tele-rugby, he filmed a female swim team playing rugby underwater with a TV monitor.[4]
His experimental works[5] include net-art, web art, AI generated images, Robot Games, SCIgen papers and online videos.[6] Gülan uses boron in his sculptures.[7]
Works
[edit]The Android Statue and sketches of Gülan's kinetic marble statue series, Robotic Statues were presented at the Antalya Museum in 2014. Gülan's work with robots in university labs since the mid-1990s has influenced many of his art projects. His artwork Robots, Football and War (RFW) was part of the computer game Balkan Wars, which won an award at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in 1995. His AI-generated play was used in the project YEN! (New) presented at the Pera Museum for the 16th Istanbul Theatre Festival.[8]

The Great Conjugation was exhibited at Boğaziçi University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, Washburn Hall, in 2014. The installation used approximately 1,000 ties of various colors, designs, and brands to create a route spanning all five floors of the building. Viewers were invited to bring their ties to contribute to the installation. The installation was also displayed at the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Ankara Contemporary Art Center in 2013. In 2011, Gülan was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation European Art Prize and held his first exhibition at the White Saloon inside the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, where he studied Political Science and International Relations from 1987 to 1991.[9]

An exhibition titled Swimming Rocks was held in 2014, at Gallery Metazori in Çeşme, Alaçatı, where Gülan spent much of his childhood. The work was inspired by pumice rocks that float on water, found in the Aegean Sea around Çeşme and Alaçatı. Works by his mother, Tezer Gülan, and his grandmother, Saime İzmiroğlu, were also featured in the exhibition. Additionally, Gülan presented his New Landscape series, an interpretation of landscapes as barcodes, and his Digital Ghost series, which involved painting images from his laptop onto large canvases.[10]
Museum
[edit]Gülan established the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum as an art project in 1997.[11]
"At first the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum developed as an art series in the manner of Duchamp and Broodthaers until the end of the 1990s. Later it evolved when it was transferred to the Internet. It turned into a new age institution that organized exhibitions, workshops and provided logistic support on cyber space."[12]
For almost a decade, the museum ran a residency program called "I live in a Museum" and hosted artists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Spain, and China at its Galata location.[13]
Gülan's monograph, Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan edited by Marcus Graf, is co-published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin in collaboration with Galeri Artist, Istanbul. His publications are available internationally at libraries such as the German National Library, SALT Research, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University.
Gülan founded the Web Biennial[14] at the turn of the century, served on the Board of Balkan Biennial in Thessaloniki, International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore in 2008 and was a guest editor for Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media. He was on the jury for Turgut Pura Art Prize in Izmir and teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Boğaziçi University.[citation needed]
Selected images
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Pompidou, From the "I love You series", C-print, Paris, 2007
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'Magic Beans' 2013. Sculpture with 600 used neckties and a crane, 150m.
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Art (Blue), ready-made, 2013.
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33.3 QR Code poem
References
[edit]- ^ Foroohar, Rana and Matthews, Owen. (28 August 2005). Turkish Delight. Newsweek. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Weshinskey, Anne. (25 August 2011) With Fish or Without. Lab Kultur. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ .Vito Campanelli e Danilo Capasso (a cura di), Cultura e nuovi media. Cinque interrogativi di Lev Manovich, Edizioni MAO, Napoli, 2011. ISBN 978-88-95869-00-1
- ^ Atakan, Nancy (Spring 2006)FROM NEW MEDIA FROM THE PERIPHERY Archived 1 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of the New Media Caucus. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ Reil, Alexandra. (25 August 2011) Art Following the Trend?. Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 5 June 2012
- ^ Landi, Ann (1 September 2009)What they see in Van Gogh's ear. ARTnews. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ Utku, Ahsen (23 April 2011)Genco Gulan sends messages to the future through art Archived 25 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ RHIZOME: The Android Statue, Genco Gulan. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ RHIZOME: The Great Conjugation, Genco Gulan. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ ALAÇATI KIRMIZI ARDIÇ GALERİ Archived May 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ Gibbons, Fiachra. (13 June 2006) Istanbul set to stamp its culture credentials - Arts & Leisure. The New York Times (International Herald Tribune). Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Graf, Marcus. Conceptual Colors of Genco Gulan, Revolver Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-3868952049
- ^ Lubelski, Abraham. (22 December 2006) Contemporary Istanbul Archived 11 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Art Fairs International. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Lev, Julia. (27 January 2011) Plato's new exhibition brings net-art to the fore Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
Bibliography
[edit]- Marcus Graf. Conceptual Colors of Genco Gulan, Revolver Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-3868952049
- Marcus Graf. Genco Gulan: Kavramsal Renkler, Galata Perform Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9789944016001
- Genco Gulan. Portrait of the Artist as the Young Man: (After James Joyce) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN 978-1481942423
- Genco Gulan. De-constructing the Digital Revolution: Analysis of the Usage of the Term "Digital Revolution" in Relation with the New Technology, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (12 November 2009). ISBN 978-3838320472
External links
[edit]- Genco Gulan at IMDb
- Official Web site gencogulan.com
- The Change in Art: Genco Gulan at TEDxModa
- Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Berlin.
- Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
- Rhizome, at the New Museum, NY.
- Java Museum, Koeln interview. Archived 13 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
- Official website of the Web Biennial
- LABS : Leonardo ABstracts Service
- The King beheading himself. Written by Sabine Küper on 21 June 2013.
- Goethe Institute
- Saatchi Online
- Review by Nancy Atakan, Phd. Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Review by Marcus Graf at Visual Art Beat Magazine. Archived 30 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Employee of the Month[usurped]
- Turkish Culture and Art
- Identity as a Myth, article by Dr. Graf Archived 23 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- Turkish video artists
- Bioartists
- Postmodern artists
- Turkish conceptual artists
- Contemporary painters
- Institutional Critique artists
- Installation artists
- Conceptual photographers
- Artists from New York (state)
- Turkish performance artists
- Net.artists
- Mass media theorists
- Futurologists
- 1969 births
- 21st-century Turkish sculptors
- Living people
- 20th-century Turkish sculptors
- 20th-century Turkish male artists
- 21st-century Turkish male artists