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February 2011
SELMA GÜRBÜZ:
SHADOWS OF MY SELF
Rose Issa Projects Leighton House Museum London
23 February - 9 April
SHADOWS OF MY SELF
Rose Issa Projects Leighton House Museum London
23 February - 9 April
THIS IS the first solo show in London of the drawings, paintings and sculptures of Selma Gürbüz, one of Turkey’s leading contemporary artists. Hers is a wonderfully original talent that has created a rich body of work. In this small selection, Gürbüz reveals a gestural staging of her past and present; of the earth and sea; art history and real life events; animals and humans; East and West. In a way, Shadows of My Self represents the cross-cultural aspect of her place of birth, Istanbul, the city where she lives today.
Exploring the simple and powerful effects of line drawing, Gürbüz produces fairytale landscapes, creatures of the sea, patterned images, and beautifully crafted and haunting figures. With great economy of means, she creates characters that are cunning, frank, courageous, sometimes carnal yet always attractive. With stark simplicity, they condense the art of silhouettes, shadow theatre and animation, resulting in fable-like archetypes.
There is also an autobiographical aspect to Gürbüz’s work in the maidens leaning on uncomfortable beds of thorns or sea urchins, laboring ants, tamed lions and playful dogs and cats. Her references are far-reaching, embracing Ottoman, Japanese and European motifs, from Velasquez’ Las Meninas to figures made from the evil eye or chintamani. The effect is always thought provoking and captivating.
A monograph published by Rose Issa Projects will accompany this exhibition, and there is also a small display of recent large canvases by Selma Gürbüz at the Rose Issa Projects space on Kensington High Street.
Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14 (020 7602 3316)
Open daily 10am to 5.30pm, closed Tuesdays.
Admission £5 to include membership and free access to Leighton House for one year
Exploring the simple and powerful effects of line drawing, Gürbüz produces fairytale landscapes, creatures of the sea, patterned images, and beautifully crafted and haunting figures. With great economy of means, she creates characters that are cunning, frank, courageous, sometimes carnal yet always attractive. With stark simplicity, they condense the art of silhouettes, shadow theatre and animation, resulting in fable-like archetypes.
There is also an autobiographical aspect to Gürbüz’s work in the maidens leaning on uncomfortable beds of thorns or sea urchins, laboring ants, tamed lions and playful dogs and cats. Her references are far-reaching, embracing Ottoman, Japanese and European motifs, from Velasquez’ Las Meninas to figures made from the evil eye or chintamani. The effect is always thought provoking and captivating.
A monograph published by Rose Issa Projects will accompany this exhibition, and there is also a small display of recent large canvases by Selma Gürbüz at the Rose Issa Projects space on Kensington High Street.
Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14 (020 7602 3316)
Open daily 10am to 5.30pm, closed Tuesdays.
Admission £5 to include membership and free access to Leighton House for one year
the-night
gouache-on-handmade-paper,129.5x200cm,-2005
Natural
mixed-technic-on-handmade-paper,-187x97-cm,2005
Bee woman
Gouache-on-handmade-paper,187x96-cn,-2005
Adam and Eve
Gouache-on-handmade-paper_187x97-cm_2005
After hunting
Gouache-on-handmade-paper,99,5x174-cm,-2005
About Rose Issa
Rose Issa is a curator, writer and producer who has championed visual art and film from the Arab world and Iran for nearly 30 years. She has lived in Iran, Lebanon, France and, for the last 20 years, London, where from her private project space in Kensington she showcases upcoming and established artists, and produces exhibitions and publications with public and private institutions worldwide.
Through curating numerous exhibitions and film festivals, she introduced for the first time to Western audiences many of the artists who have since become stars of the international scene, including: Chant Avedissian, Mohamed Ehsai, Shadi Ghadirian, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Bahman Ghobadi, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Farhad Moshiri, Abbas Kiarostami, Rashid Koraichi and Nja Mahdaoui among many more.
Rose Issa has served as guest curator for numerous private and public institutions, including the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool; the Beirut Exhibition Center; Tate Britain, London ; European Parliament; the State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow; the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; ING Bank, Geneva; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; The CCCB (Contemporary Cultural Centre), Barcelona; IFA - Institut fur Auslandsbezeihungen, Germany; Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; the Barbican Art Centre; and The Leighton House Museum.
She also advises public and private art institutions on their loans and acquisitions
of contemporary artworks from the Middle East. She is also the Director of Beyond Art Production Ltd, which publishes many of her exhibition catalogues.
In 1982 Rose Issa launched the first-ever Arab Film Festival in Paris and worked with the Delegations Etrangères at the Cannes Film Festival (1983-1985).
For a further 26 years until 2008, she curated Arab and Iranian film seasons in Britain and abroad. She was special advisor to European film festivals and curated Arab and Iranian films.
In addition she curated a season of Iranian films for Britain’s Channel 4 (2005) and collaborated with them on “Cinema Iran”, a series of documentaries on Iranian cinema. She also realised the documentary, “Moving Pictures: Tunisian Women Film Directors”, for BBC2 TV (1995).
Rose Issa is a curator, writer and producer who has championed visual art and film from the Arab world and Iran for nearly 30 years. She has lived in Iran, Lebanon, France and, for the last 20 years, London, where from her private project space in Kensington she showcases upcoming and established artists, and produces exhibitions and publications with public and private institutions worldwide.
Through curating numerous exhibitions and film festivals, she introduced for the first time to Western audiences many of the artists who have since become stars of the international scene, including: Chant Avedissian, Mohamed Ehsai, Shadi Ghadirian, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Bahman Ghobadi, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Farhad Moshiri, Abbas Kiarostami, Rashid Koraichi and Nja Mahdaoui among many more.
Rose Issa has served as guest curator for numerous private and public institutions, including the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool; the Beirut Exhibition Center; Tate Britain, London ; European Parliament; the State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow; the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; ING Bank, Geneva; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; The CCCB (Contemporary Cultural Centre), Barcelona; IFA - Institut fur Auslandsbezeihungen, Germany; Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; the Barbican Art Centre; and The Leighton House Museum.
She also advises public and private art institutions on their loans and acquisitions
of contemporary artworks from the Middle East. She is also the Director of Beyond Art Production Ltd, which publishes many of her exhibition catalogues.
In 1982 Rose Issa launched the first-ever Arab Film Festival in Paris and worked with the Delegations Etrangères at the Cannes Film Festival (1983-1985).
For a further 26 years until 2008, she curated Arab and Iranian film seasons in Britain and abroad. She was special advisor to European film festivals and curated Arab and Iranian films.
In addition she curated a season of Iranian films for Britain’s Channel 4 (2005) and collaborated with them on “Cinema Iran”, a series of documentaries on Iranian cinema. She also realised the documentary, “Moving Pictures: Tunisian Women Film Directors”, for BBC2 TV (1995).
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