Argonotlar Contemporary Art Publication

Argonotlar Contemporary Art Publication brings together the latest exhibitions and discussions of art.

Füsun Onur at the Venice Biennale

One of the pioneers of conceptual art in Turkey, Füsun Onur draws attention with her works that replace permanence with transience, stasis with interaction, emptying the baggage of meaning attributed to sculpture and reconstructing the relationship with the object in a unique way. The artist transforms objects from everyday life, sometimes by detaching them from their context and sometimes by intertwining reality and imagination, her use of materials is economical and her technique is simple. She is more interested in the space she creates and the atmosphere of the work. Her works are mostly "playful" and contain autobiographical traces. From time to time, they can also give the feeling of an unfinished draft. Thus, she opens up space for the viewer and their imagination.

Füsun Onur, who creates spatial works by making what she calls "silent music", equates seeing and hearing. She activates the thinness and thickness of tones, the color, transitions and rhythm of sound through objects. In other words, she visualizes the music she hears by transforming it into compositions through objects and spreads her productions over time and spatializes them as in music. The titles of many of her works are chosen from classical music terminology.

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