AYŞE ERKMEN - BERNARD FRIZE
Badminton on Meadow
28.11.2017 – 28.01.2018
Bunker
All ideas encounter in the material; it is the space and time of idea.
“Badminton on Meadow,” the second edition of the Bunker Exhibitions gathers Ayşe Erkmen and Bernard Frize on a gravity-free plane. Both of them like creating works that unburden the material. Prominent drive of their works is the notion of lightness.
Bernard Frize reaches to rhythmic sequences by subjecting a found gesture to variations along the canvass. He is always after finding a visual vibration, a musical resonance. And the priority of Erkmen is translating the material (and surely objects and space) to found languages in order to liberate them from the tyranny of reason and common sense. But this is not her mission, it is just a method, a way of constructing her work. Although two artists use entirely different tools, the transparency in Frize quickly meets with permeability of empty spaces in Erkmen. That is why their works’ back side and beyond always open to a meadow.
Indeed, how many types of meadows were there in poetry?
Ayşe Erkmen
Blinds, 2006
Blinds made of fabric and/or plastic, variable colours
Variable dimensions
Bernard Frize
Plus, 2005
Acrylic and resin on canvas
165 x 165 cm
Unique (#42538)
Bernard Frize
Tau, 2005
Acrylic and resin on canvas
150 x 150 cm
Unique (#42154)