Your Family Is A Lie, Dear

Bahadır Baruter

13 September - 13 October 2012

Bahadır Baruter, whom we have always dubbed "a cartoonist", will manifest a completely different aspect with his digital painting and videos in his upcoming exhibition, "Your Family Is A Lie, Dear", at x-ist between September 13 - October 13, 2012. The artist, with his witty outlook and ironic approach holds the mirror to his audience by addressing the notion of family, one of the deepest taboos in the society, with all its concealed truths.

 

According to Baruter, solitude justifies family as its most proper cover. Family is an illusion of happiness, built with the belief that individuals can only exist together. It can subjugate one with forced smiles and requisite relationships unlike the positive image reflected for the sake of other people's perceptions. Organic ties break if held on too strong, wiping out the individual for the sake of unity. Baruter, who has a counter stance to family, portrays the concept by combining different styles.

 

In point of fact, each work is a daily scene blended with dark humor. There are no happy family dinner tables or embraced children in this exhibition, unlike the expectations. While saying "Your family is a lie" Baruter aims to expose our own lies, recreates the family portraits by editing the pretense; inviting the audience for an introspective look. He questions the reality of seemingly warm, cosy and safe moments and searches for normalcy. He does not aspire to impose his own truth but to reveal the problems of the accepted.

 

x-ist cordially invites all art aficionados to Baruter's exhibition, "Your Family Is A Lie, Dear", tech-sponsored by Elektromak.

 

BAHADIR BARUTER

Ankara, 1963

 

After completing his fine arts education in Mimar Sinan University, Fine Arts Faculty, Baruter started his career as a caricaturist when he was 27 years old and worked for several humor magazines. He had his first solo show, "Existence Anxiety" in 2007 at x-ist. The artist is the co-founder of the weekly humor magazine Penguen where he has been working as an editor and a drawer since 2002.

 

Bahadır Baruter, "Senin Ailen Bir Yalan Yavrum" "Your Family Is A Lie, Dear" from x-ist on Vimeo.

A Long Night

Diasec, c-print, 125 x 132 cm, 2012

Destiny

Diasec, c-print, 120 x 158 cm, 2012

End of the Road

Diasec, c-print, 151 x 125 cm, 2012

When Your Father Arrives in the Evening

Diasec, c-print, 93 x 140 cm, 2012

My Kids Would Never

Diasec, epson paper, 170 x 142 cm, 2012

Your Father Would Be Very Sad

Diasec, c-print, 162 x 120 cm, 2012

I Will Never Give Birth Again

Diasec, c-print, 125 x 172 cm, 2012

That Dinner

Diasec, epson paper, 135 x 235 cm, 2012

While Mom Sleeps

Diasec, c-print, 125 x 192 cm, 2012

Goodbye Daddy

Diasec, c-print, 170 x 125 cm, 2012

We Don't Have A Mother

Diasec, c-print, 125 x 175 cm, 2012

Genetic Memory

c-print, baroque frame, 170 x 113 cm (çerçevesiz / without frame), 2012

Mother I

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Mother II

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Mother III

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Mother IV

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Mother V

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Mother VI

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Daughter

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 46 cm, 2012

Father I

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Father II

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Father III

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Father IV

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Father V

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Father VI

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 39 cm, 2012

Son

Semi gloss paper, frame, 33 x 46 cm, 2012