Galeri Bosfor is hosting Işıl Kapu's first solo show "In the Light of Primitive Traces" between March 16th and April 19th. The artist takes on the pre-historic body forms with contemporary materials and techniques within the frame of the exhibition showcasing sculptures and reliefs inspired by archaeological idols and figurines.
For her first solo show, "In the Light of Primitive Traces", Işıl Kapu begins with the idea on preserving and transmitting the archaeological cultural heritage. The artist focuses on reinterpretion and represention of figures from the Neolithic era from the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük. Kapu explores how the surface, mass, and form elements of the primitive object can be interpreted today by using contemporary production techniques and materials.
Işıl Kapu transfers her archaic body abstractions, which she works on with sketches, to digital modeling, creates digital collages and rescales the sculpture while producing in the final stage. As the artist works with abstractions of the bodies of the figures, she uses repetition, addition and reduction. Thus she achives an ambigious form on the surfaces of archaic sculptures and reliefs. In her large-scale reliefs, the interlocking stage of the body takes on a topographic outlook.
In the exhibition, "In the Light of Primitive Traces", Işıl Kapu distances the sculpture from painting by using only one color, black, white, and grey, in the best way to highlight light, form, and mass of the sculpture. For polyester and concrete sculptures, Kapu establishes a relationship with light through matte and polished surfaces. The artist aims to create a historical atmosphere for the audience regarding the pre-historic era with this exhibition. A dynamic arrangement is presented in terms of scale and material with large masses carrying a subterranian effect, multiple relief installations, totems, and standalone sculptures.
