VASIF KORTUN'LA MET VE MOMA SERGİLERİ ÜZERİNE SOHBET
Serdar Arat-Vasif Kortun
Argonotlar Güncel Sanat Bülteni, 29 Agustos, 2024
FİYAT VE DEĞER
Serdar Arat
GÜNCEL #15, Galeri Nev İstanbul, August 24, 2020
Turkish Text
AYNI KAPI
Serdar Arat
GÜNCEL # 9, Galeri Nev İstanbul, July 6, 2020
Turkish Text
YAŞAMA ÇIKAMAYAN İŞLERLE
Serdar Arat
GÜNCEL # 4, Galeri Nev İstanbul, June 1, 2020
Turkish Text
SPOON PERFECT
Serdar Arat
Original publication Printzdesigns.com blog, October 7, 2017
BODY AND SOUL: FROM EXPLORATION TO EXPRESSION
Curatorial Essay, Serdar Arat, September 4 -October 27, 2007
OSilas Gallery, Concordia College - New York
METHOD AND METAPHOR: ARNOLD AND SEENA DAVIS OLD MASTER COLLECTION
Catalog Essay, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College - New York, September 2003
DEPARTING SKIES & FALLEN
Installation overview and statement - pdf
Serdar Arat
November, 2021
DRAWING is the closest we ever get to the immediacy of a thought in Art. Before it is “real”ised, a thought is a flash of imagination. It is inspiring, exciting, and motivating precisely because it is incomplete-un”real”ised. Some drawings may reflect the process of development of an initial thought into an idea for a complex artwork. All good drawings though, carry the freshest traces of an inspiring thought and the original flash of imagination.
S. Arat, 2003
VACATION AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS, For The New York Times article edited by William Zimmer, June 3, 2001:
In the world of work, family, and friends a vacation means a time-off, rest, and perhaps recuperation. In my world of surviving and hopefully succeeding as an artist while holding a job, and maintaining relations with family and friends, a vacation has a completely different meaning. It usually means all of the following at the very same time:
“Finally I have a chunk of unbroken time to work in my studio, but I really need some rest if I plan to return to my teaching job.”
“It is absolutely blissful to wake up and head directly to my studio, but I hardly spend any time with my family.”
“My wife wants me to join her on a trip to Bilbao. We can stay with our friends there and I can actually see the Guggenheim miracle in person. But, my art work has just taken a new turn and even thinking about it makes my heart beat faster.”
These conflicting feelings are almost always resolved in the same way: I head to my studio gradually shedding the guilt and regrets, find boundless energy when I think I had none left, work an eight-hour day, and leave the studio in a state of high that comes from no other substance or experience, thirsty for more.
S. Arat, 2001
AUTHORITY: At times, I can't help but perceive time as irreversible and continuous loss, and history as authority over human dignity. Especially subtle forms of authority which may have a less alarming but more permanent and possibly more devastating impact than that of open repression. Consequently, my work is motivated by a strong sense of urgency and is anchored in highly personal experiences.
S. Arat, 1991
PUBLIC ART: When the innocence of idealism along with common allegories and myths went out of our lives, the basic reason for monumental -public- art was also lost. I try to recapture it by “monumentalizing” my most personal experiences of doubt, loss, anxiety… Here, the recurrent format of arches play a double role: on one level they are “monumental” openings (public), on another they are highly private chambers of contemplation (personal).
S. Arat, 1986