Tayfun Erdoğmuş
Tayfun Erdoğmuş was born in Isparta in 1958 and graduated from the the Painting Department of the Fine Arts Academy at Marmara University in Istanbul in 1979. Tayfun Erdoğmuş creates compositions by organizing organic still life materials, such as dried leaves and flowers, in an organised manner contrary to their natural state. The basic structure of his work is the time and memory layers of the human-nature relationship, plant world, cosmology, biology, and the complex character of the new imaging systems, the artist’s techne is an attempt to become a passageway which makes the formation of the works possible, and reveals the transformational power of alchemy. In this context, plants collected from nature are dried and classified among the pages of large notebooks according to their shapes and types, become the words that form the basis of the artist’s vocabulary. The artist’s production process, which brings coincidence and mind, art and craft into a relationship which patiently mediates the formation of alchemy, is also a process of repair and healing for himself, and regains its presence in the memory embedded in the surface of the history that constitutes it. Tayfun Erdoğmuş’s personal exhibition named Elixir consists of seven drawings belonging to the series of Alchemy Notes (Simya Notları) which is applied on the Khadi paper. It is known that the Khadi paper is a material which is made from the bark of the Laurus Nobilis shrub that grows in the Himalayas and has the feature of antiseptic and wound healing and Erdoğmuş performs some kind of rehabilitation and healing operation resembling the characteristic features of the paper on these papers with his very own technique. In this making process carried on as if it was an alchemic experiment, organic materials such as dried herbs and chemical solutions interact with each other on the layers of the materials processed by the artist and create new images. The drawing process of the future resembles painting on glass and this made the audience feel as if the clock turns back.
23.09.2022 - 30.10.2022