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Edward Burtynsky: Aqua Shock Su Projesinden Bir Seçki Thjorsá Nehri #1, Thjorsá Toronto’Nun Izniyle Toronto’Nun Edward Burtynsky: Aqua Shock Su Projesinden Bir Seçki Thjorsá Nehri #1, Thjorsá Toronto’nun izniyle Toronto’nun Hafta sonları 10.00–19.00 arası açıktır. / Open on weekends between 10 am–7 pm Rumelihisarı Mah. Baltalimanı Hisar Cad. No: 5 Perili Köşk 34470 Sarıyer İstanbul TR KÜRATÖR/CURATOR İzlanda 2012, © Edward Burtynsky © Edward İzlanda 2012, www.borusancontemporary.com 29.10.2016–19.02.2017 Admira, Milano ve Metivier Gallery, Metivier Gallery, Milano ve Admira, WILLIAM A. EWING GEÇİCİ SERGİ TEMPORARY EXHIBITION Edward Burtynsky: Aqua Shock Su Projesinden Bir Seçki Edward Burtynsky: Aqua Shock Selections from the Water Project 29.10.2016–19.02.2017 KÜRATÖR CURATOR WILLIAM A. EWING WILLIAM A. EWING KÜRATÖR CURATOR Edward Burtynsky: Aqua Shock Burtynsky, izleyicisinin ilgisini çekerek onların bu konu hakkında düşünmelerini sağlamayı amaçlıyor. Bu naiflikten hayli uzak bir yaklaşım. Bu Kanadalı sanatçı Edward Burtynsky son on yıl içinde dünyanın en başarılı noktada Kanadalı felsefeci Marshall McLuhan'ın "insanın duyu merkezinin fotoğrafçılarından biri olarak öne çıktı. İnsanın doğaya kitlesel müdahalesini tüm karmaşık yapısına rağmen sözel veya sanatsal etkilerle uyarılıncaya kadar tüm açıklığıyla ortaya koyan büyük ölçekli işleri, estetik açıdan çarpıcı ve bir 'felç halinde' olduğu" sözlerini hatırlatmakta yarar var. İşte Burtynsky'nin etkileyici olmakla beraber, bu dur durak bilmeyen dönüşümün toplum ve çevre fotoğrafları tam da bunu başarıyor. açısından getirdiği büyük bedelleri de göz ardı etmemize olanak vermiyor. Kolektif başarılarımıza saygı gösterirken ölçüsüz bir maddi zenginlik için Lozan, Haziran 2016 ödediğimiz yüksek bedeli de bize hatırlatmaktan geri kalmıyor. İçimize kuşku tohumlarını ekerken gözlere de hitap edebilmesi, onun dört dörtlük bir sanatçı olduğunun da bir göstergesi. Yaptıklarımızın olumsuz sonuçlarının intikam Edward Burtynsky: Aqua Shock almak üzere dönüşü onun imgelerinde tüm netliğiyle görülüyor. In the past decade, the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has risen Su, dünyanın en ciddi sorunlarından biri ve Burtynsky bu konuyu to prominence as one of the world's most accomplished photographers. His kavramsal, olgusal ve estetik açıdan son derece başarılı bir şekilde işliyor. large-scale works are both aesthetically engaging and impressive in their "Aqua Shock" da sanatçının bugüne kadar gerçekleştirdiği çalışmalar lucid depiction of massive human interventions in the landscape. Yet they arasında en çok kafa yorduğu ve tutkuyla sarıldığı seri olarak öne çıkıyor. never let the social and environmental costs of this relentless transformation Projenin gerektirdiği teknolojik desteğe baktığımızda gemi mürettebatı, slip out of sight. While Burtynsky respectfully acknowledges our collective vinç, uçak, uzaktan kumandalı UAS (insansız hava sistemleri), kameralı ve accomplishments, he reminds us of the steep price we pay for unbridled fiberoptik uzaktan kumanda ile donatılmış pnömatik bir direk gibi hayli farklı material wealth. That he manages to delight the eye, while simultaneously ve sıradışı ekipmanlar kullandığını görüyoruz. Perspektif ve kompozisyon planting seeds of doubt, is a sign of his consummate skill as an artist. His unsurlarını kullanışı da uzun süredir onun işlerinde gördüğümüz belgeleyici imagery shows us full well that those negative effects have come back with a ve soyutlamacı yaklaşımı bir üst seviyeye taşıyor. Burtynsky'ye göre "hayli vengeance. susamış bir uygarlık" küresel su kaynaklarını en megaloman firavunu bile The resource of water is one of the entire world's most pressing concerns, utandıracak ölçekte yeniden düzenliyor. Sanatçı da insanları uyarmaya ve a subject that the photographer has treated brilliantly on conceptual, kolektif bir şekilde eyleme geçmeye davet ediyor. Bu arada konuların şoke factual and aesthetic levels. "Aqua Shock" is Burtynsky's most ambitious edici etkisi imgeleri bir kasvete bürümüyor; hepsi parlak, cüretkâr, ilgi çekici ve and rigorously conceived body of work to date. On the technological level hatta umut verici görsellikleriyle son derece cazip görünüyor. the project required location crews, man-lifts, aircraft, remote-controlled 3 UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) and a custom-made pneumatic mast with camera-mount and fiber-optic remote. Perspectives and compositional strategies encompass and expand upon both documentary and abstract traditions long present in the artist's work. Burtynsky suggests that a "very thirsty civilization" is currently rearranging global water resources on a scale so colossal that even the most megalomaniac pharaohs would be put to shame. He means to warn his fellow beings and galvanize the collectivity into action. For all their shocking subject matter, his pictures aren't gloomy. On the contrary, they are attractive: bright, bold, curious, and even hopeful. Burtynsky's strategy is one of engaging viewers, who, once hooked, might just begin to think about the issues. This is not naiveté; as the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan reminds us, "the human sensorium in all its civilized complexity remains 'a center of paralysis' until prodded and probed by verbal or artistic energies". Burtynsky's photographs do just that. 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