By Heidi Trautmann

The catalogue starts with a poem by Filiz Asrak

AMOR-AMORPH

Dark, heavy, huge mass

Rotating arbritrarily

We are rotating

The body, discharged of all subsistence

The mass, emptiness and I

I am the mass before emptiness

Emptiness after the mass

Amor nothingness, amorph substance

We are rotating together

(6.06.2014)

The first impression I had when I slowly went through the ArtRooms was Birth – Beginning of the World – Beginning of Life – Sun and Rain as the life giving elements. Only later when I read the introductory text by Kemal Ankac in the catalogue I learnt that Filiz Ankac’s preliminary thoughts were going even deeper, to the struggle between the ethereal and earthly. Her exhibition is divided into three main directions: The Seed – Trees of Sun – In Wonderland. With her installations she is telling the story of The Seed brought by comets to our earth and confront this realistic approach with the ethereal thought in our monotheistic religions. Happiness in Heaven or on Earth. With her theme the ‘Trees of Sun’, acrylic based small paintings with yellow dominating, she repeats her thesis of the cosmos being the beginning of life. With her series ‘In Wonderland’ she wanders off into the ethereal fields, the paintings are dominated by Blue.

According to the introduction Filiz Ankac has based political thoughts about the current on-goings in our neighbouring countries to her artwork, thoughts that made her express her feelings, reflections about the violence becoming a daily threat, that we are not far away from it.

The new exhibition is connected to her last one two years ago ‘The other I on Faces’, a sort of continuation? Read her biography and a comment by Ümit Inatci (only in Turkish). On my website under Art News 438

The exhibition is still on until 27 October; viewing times after midday until midnight. Mondays are closed.