Don't be deceived!

Hüseyin Arıcı

09 February - 18 March 2017

The solo exhibition entitled “Don’t Be Deceived!” of Hüseyin Arıcı, who has joined x-ist in the new season, meets the audience with 3 different series that it features. The selection including the ‘One’ Series, the ‘Ready-made Object’ Series and the ‘Spineless’ Series provides the opportunity to observe how through different materials the artist transforms the relationship that he establishes with reality and illusion into a trickery beyond imitation.

 

The artist, who always produces on his own the ready-made objects necessary for his installations, creates a perfect perception of reality in his exhibition “Don’t Be Deceived!” through his use of oil paint on canvas and modelling clay. “At the table that I sat for the sketches of the paintings that I will make, I dreamt of a world made out of canvas and oil paint. And when I woke up, I was not painting anymore. Right after I got up, I bought massive wood cut by machines. Various wood; with smooth edges, thin, long, round. Then I used them in my installations by cutting them size by size. Then I made furniture, notebooks and stretcher frames out of this wood.

 

After a while, spineless creatures, constantly reproducing, invaded everywhere, as if there was no end to it… They ate up all the wood and furniture. I picked up and dried all of them. After varnishing, they willingly took their place on canvases and surfaces as if they were living… They suited very well everywhere I placed them as if this place belonged to these creatures, as if the world was created for them. After a while, I realized that I was sleeping and none of these happened in reality. I woke up. Everything had become painting; oil paint had pervaded them… I had even made my stretcher frames out of canvas and oil paint. The spineless had not eaten my works that I had made out of canvas since they were also oil paintings. The world didn’t belong to the spineless either. In fact, I couldn’t associate it with anything… Then I was possessed by suspicion; what if this was also a dream and paintings transformed into industrial products were used as furniture and the world was in the hands of the spineless?” -Hüseyin Arıcı

Contemporary leeches

Instalation (detail), 2015

To be consumed is to produce

Oil on modelling clay, Ø 43 cm, 2016

Juniper

Oil on canvas, Ø 100 cm, 2016

Your Child

Oil on canvas (3 pieces), 250 x 40 cm; 90 x 15 cm, 50 x 15 cm, 50 x 15 cm, 2016

Your Child

detail

World I

Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm, 2016

Here is a piece of you

Oil on canvas, 67 x 7 x 4 cm, 2016

The World II

Oil on canvas, 200 x 100 cm, 2016

World II

detail

World III

Oil on canvas, 160 x 60 cm, 2016

My frames are also made of canvases

Oil on canvas, 72 x 130 cm; 60 x 72 cm (each), 2016

Table shaped oil on canvas

Sketch book shaped oil on canvas, 30 x 23 cm; Stacked notebooks shaped oil on canvas, 32 x 24 x 18 cm; Rubber shaped oil on canvas, 4 x 8 cm; Pencil shaped oil on canvas, 2 x 17 cm

Oil on canvas painting shaped oil on canvas

Oil on canvas shaped oil on canvas and console shaped oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm; 95 x 90 x 40 cm, 2016

Solid wood shaped oil on canvas

Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm, 2016

Contemporary leeches

Installation, 2015

I don't lie

Oil on modelling clay, frame and glaze, 8 x 8 cm, 2016

Up futher up!

detail

Do not deceived I

Oil on modelling clay, Ø 118 cm, 2016

Do not deceived II

Oil on modelling clay, Ø 43 cm, 2016

An old mirror

Oil on modelling clay and plaster with frame, 120 x 80 cm, 2016

Leech the Painter

Oil on modelling clay, canvas and frame, 80 x 47 cm, 2015

Up futher up!

Oil on modelling clay, 47 x Ø 120 cm, 2015

Juniper

Oil on canvas, Ø 60 cm, 2015

To be consumed is to produce

Oil on modelling clay, Ø 43 cm, 2016

Look! There is a cherie

Oil on modelling clay, wood and glaze, 8 x Ø 70 cm, 2016