Marlborough Gallery to Show "Journey from East to West" by Ahmet Güneştekin

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In est, a kind of mini-retrospective is in play, showing off Güneştekin's talent in a variety of mediums, from paintings, reliefs, carpets, kilims, and patchworks, to his most recent forays in sculpture. The exhibition, curated by New York based art critic and historian Matthew Drutt , will open on the 11 of January, 2017.

Güneştekin has been working on a breakout series of sculptures in ceramic and metal recently that represent the greatest stylistic transformation his work has undergone in more than a decade. The series carries the general title which it is referred to as "he of the two horns" in the Qu'ran.  He has rendered the idea of in a series of grotesquely beautiful ceramic urns containing ornate skulls and horns that radiate from and through the walls of the urns, as if he is a figure.

The curator identifies the works as leaping out into space. The objects are circular, and the orb is at the center and rendered in metallic mirror. This allows the reliefs to change depending on where they are installed, since they reflect their surroundings, but also inscribe the viewer into them as they too are reflected when looking at the object head on.

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The exhibition by Ahmet Güneştekin, whose works appears simultaneously ancient and modern, will be open to visit until February 4 at Marlborough Gallery.