© Parallax 289 x 289 cm x289 289 2011 Hancock) Antenna (John 2011 68:10 min Chicago Household gloss paintHousehold gloss on canvas Abdi İpekçi Caddesi 7/4 Nişantaşı 34367 İstanbul TR Tel: +90 212 291 34 34 Fax: +90 212 219 64 00 www.dirimart.org “Two Erasing Principles” “Two Erasing Active in the international art world since 2002, the art space Dirimart will be hosting hosting be will Dirimart space art the 2002, world since art international the in Active with the Turkish audience. Here Morris turns her camera towards an American city in in city American an towards camera her turns Morris Here audience. Turkish the with with the history of John Hancock as the ‘father of the signature’ — his flamboyant, flamboyant, —his signature’ of the ‘father the as Hancock of John history the with works from her series Rings, Morris derives inspiration from the Olympic rings as well well as rings Olympic the from inspiration derives Morris Rings, series her from works of the . These simple binding structures suggest a transition from enduring enduring from atransition suggest structures binding simple These paintings. of the clarity semi-analitical the despite forms complex create to shapes unifying of these of urban environments. Parallel to her paintings, Morris’ films also trace urban, urban, trace also films Morris’ paintings, her to Parallel environments. of urban psychology the and design architecture, with playing films, and paintings her of both In conjunction with the exhibition, Morris’s most recent film “Chicago” will also meet meet also will “Chicago” film recent most Morris’s exhibition, the with conjunction In Knots, the artist uses forms in which knots and paperclips interlock. She turns to to turns She interlock. paperclips and knots which in forms uses artist the Knots, consequently becomes indistinguishable and the narrative of the paintings is intensified intensified is paintings of the narrative the and indistinguishable becomes consequently continuously splintering and self-generating, and without resolution, creating after- creating resolution, without and self-generating, and splintering continuously are that forms creating Center), Hancock John the (called of America building high-rise multi-functional first the of the reminiscent forms uses uses artist the series, latest today’s what assesses Morris politics. encoded architecturally its and city contemporary Featuring pieces from some of the most defining series of the artist’s career, in the the in career, artist’s of the series defining most of the some from pieces Featuring Dirimart Gallery Hosts Sarah Morris’ First Show in Turkey, Turkey, in Show First Morris’ Sarah Hosts Gallery Dirimart September 14–October22,2011 utility to contingent organization or text, data and copied material. Form and content content and Form material. copied and data ortext, organization contingent to utility urban structures, bureaucracies, cities and nations might conceal and surveys how a surveys and conceal might nations and cities bureaucracies, structures, urban Sarah Morris has won worldwide acclaim for her panoramic portraits of American of American portraits panoramic her for acclaim won worldwide has Morris Sarah Sarah Morris’ well-deserved ubiqituous fame is based on the geometric abstractions abstractions geometric onthe based is fame ubiqituous well-deserved Morris’ Sarah latest Morris’s from of paintings aselection 2011. 22, Besides 14 October to September encrypted history and hierarchy in particularly architecture, her works can be viewed by by viewed be can works her architecture, particularly in hierarchy and history encrypted metropolises, which were given new form through both her films and paintings since since paintings and films her both through form new given were which metropolises, resonant in the wake of President Obama’s administration, on the basis of psychology, of psychology, basis onthe administration, Obama’s of President wake the in resonant particular moment can be inscribed and embedded into its visual surfaces. visual its into embedded and inscribed be can moment particular images of capitalism and pre-images of new systems of control. The paintings also play play also paintings The of control. systems of new pre-images and of capitalism images the midst of transformation. She investigates this transformation, made all the more more the all made transformation, this investigates She of transformation. midst the the world-renowned American artist Sarah Morris’ first solo exhibition in Turkey from Turkey from in exhibition solo first Morris’ Sarah artist American world-renowned the Dirimart. in time first the for audience Turkish the visually the and spaces of urban psychology charged onthe Focusing 90’s. mid the simple office items and their capacity to symbolise such demanding mental operations operations mental demanding such symbolise to capacity their and items office simple and Clips in Similarly, belligerence. and mockery of ironic asign as signature stylish will (68’) Chicago 2011 the film ‘Rings’ and Hancock’, ‘John Knots’, and ‘Clips series social and bureaucratic topologies. In both media, she explores the psychology of the of the psychology the explores she media, both In topologies. bureaucratic and social aesthetics and architecture. “Chicago” captures the varied layers of a complex of a complex layers varied the captures “Chicago” architecture. and aesthetics functions due the aside leaves She unifying. and liaising connections, establishing as shown. be also as alluding to interlocking highways. In a work from John Hancock, again one of her oneof her again Hancock, John awork from In highways. interlocking to alluding as by the color scheme. color the by Abdi İpekçi Caddesi 7/4 Nişantaşı 34367 İstanbul TR Tel: +90 212 291 34 34 Fax: +90 212 219 64 00 www.dirimart.org Abdi İpekçi Caddesi No: 7/4 No: Caddesi İpekçi Abdi Tokyo, (2005), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2005), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (2004), Miami Miami (2004), Copenhagen Kunstforeningen, (2005), Hannover Gesellschaft, Kestner (2005), Paris Tokyo, Chıcago Award. She has widely exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions including the Museum für Moderne Moderne für Museum the including exhibitions solo with internationally, exhibited widely has She Award. Foundation Mitchell Joan prestigious the received Morris in2001 and Fellow Prize Award, F: +90 212 2196400 +90 F: (Dirimart Project Space) Project (Dirimart Tuesday – Sunday, 10.00 –19.00 10.00 –Sunday, Tuesday Garibaldi Building İstiklal Caddesi Caddesi İstiklal Beyoğlu Nişantaşı 34367 İstanbul –TR İstanbul 34367 Nişantaşı Prıncıples Erasıng Two Deva Çıkmazı No: 2 No: Çıkmazı Deva T: +90 212T: 291 3434 +90 E: [email protected] E: two large-scale permanent site-specific projects at the Gulating Court House in Bergen, Norway and at the the at and Norway inBergen, House Court Gulating the at projects site-specific permanent large-scale two de Palais (2005), Stockholm Museet, Moderna (2006), Rotterdam Beuningen, van Boijmans Museum the Dirimart moments with issues of social power and representation. An original music score by by score music original An representation. and power of social issues with moments everyday city’s the collides and ornarration commentary verbal without metropolis Edward Durell Stone designed Tulsa Convention Center, in Tulsa, Oklahoma in2011 Oklahoma Morris inTulsa, Center, 2012. and Tulsa Sarah Convention designed Stone Durell Edward 2010.realizing be inJuly will She opened which Germany, inDüsseldorf, Museum Nordrhein–Westfalen Science of School in2010 Gateway the at artworks site–specific permanent two (2001). realized Berlin She Bahnhof, imHamburger Nationalgalerie and (2002), D.C. Washington Museum, Hirshhorn (2002), MOCA (2008), Riehen⁄ Beyeler, Fondation (2009), Bologna Moderna, d’Arte Museo (2009), Kunst, Academy American an was she 1999-2000 From Program. Study Independent Art’s American of Museum to viewers at the Garibaldi Building simultaneously with the exhibition. the with simultaneously Building Garibaldi the at viewers to the Transcending lens. of Morris’ impressions the accompanies Gillick Liam artist the in Queens with the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners and “Hornet” at K20 Kunstsammlung Kunstsammlung K20 at “Hornet” and Partners and Freed Cobb Pei firm architectural the with in Queens Monday – Saturday, 10.00 –19.00 10.00 –Saturday, Monday Sarah Morris was born in 1967. She attended , Cambridge University, and the Whitney Whitney the and University, Cambridge University, in1967. Brown born was attended She Morris Sarah MORRİS SARAH boundaries of documentary and construct, this distinctive 2011 work will be available available be 2011 work will distinctive this construct, and of documentary boundaries lives in London and New York. New and inLondon lives