I favor a poetic game
Why does a living being pursue consciousness and self-awareness?
What are the mental impulses spreading through time?
Is it to decipher the codes of things that complete oneself?
I will briefly delve into an analysis of the past, from those days to today and the future, and my dreams.
An uninterrupted experience from our day (from 1968 to 2022). The impulses of sentences in my memory; the consciousness repeats time today.
Images brought to today, metaphorical languages are rushing in.
This transfer started in 1968; I began my education in 1977 at the Istanbul State Applied Fine Arts High School.
1982 Working with Prof. Ergin İnan. During the education, restoration works of historical mansions on the Bosphorus in 1978-79.
In 1986, Paris. I had the opportunity to meet artists such as Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, Nam Jun Paik, and Dan Flavin.
1987-92 My assistant years at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. I worked with Prof. Mustafa Aslıer on printmaking (Lithography, metal engraving, screen printing, etc.) for eight years. In the following years, I completed the master's program and the proficiency in art program, and I have taught Basic Art education in all departments of the Faculty of Fine Arts until today.
During the years I was proficient in art, my teacher Prof. Nermi Uygur established a structure that would influence my entire art life with his extraordinary language and expression.
It was the years when I made my first installation in Hagia Sophia (1991). There was a handmade paper pulp work in 300x400cm dimensions and three large monochrome red canvases.
Over thirty solo exhibitions, over a hundred national and international exhibition participations.
In 1988, I received my first scholarship in Salzburg with Prof. Otto Werner at Lithowerkstat.
In 1991, for the second time, I worked on metal engraving with Prof. Eva Mösenneder.
Meeting with Prof. Emilio Vedova during the same years. At the same time, I made my second installation in Hagia Sophia.
1992 The first of the Utopias, a lifebuoy for the Maiden's Tower, wings would be attached to Galata Tower in the east and west directions.
The entire time of art is the creative act of trying to make sense of life.Experiencing all spaces in time with consciousness, relating macrocosm with microcosm is the most intense, painful preparation for the creative act.It is placing senses and intuitions in memory with consciousness. Moving forward by questioning. During the period when I had utopian works, ontological experiences emerged as an index.Moving forward by questioning. A drop has fallen somewhere.Transformed into language in the light of the Core. Times when sensations intensify. Formatting indices in the mind, experiences.Assignments given to the cells in the brain. Dynamics of my memory. All phenomena of consciousness and the unconscious.The rhythm, color, and forms of the produced works.The mind forms itself somewhere beyond a sacred place. Like the light of nature itself. Like its color. It must be the requirement of dialectics. We are trying to trace time from the Big Bang to today. Coming with the Core, coming with Water.I favor a poetic game.
Erkan Ozdilek and Prof. Otto Werner
1988, International summer academy in Salzburg Austria.
Rhythm, Continuous and Language
Consciousness becomes more dynamic. It is not the pursuit of a specific energy; it is the scattered energy of all time. Concerns of disappearing energies turning into language.
I see rhythm as an incalculable phenomenon.
Structures in nature have always occupied and continue to occupy my mind. Traces of living life after the explosion to this day.
Risks of experiencing knowledge.
Traces of disappearing energy manifest themselves in states of non-representation and imagelessness.
Screams in my memory from Babylon, Sumerians, from the ancient times to today, so much information and thought have been transferred.
From Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx to Lacan and Freud. More recently, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze.
The source of all these impulses is the relationship of the energy in the mind with chemistry. Imagine if there was no physics-biology-philosophy.
The energy of nature that forms the shapes in my memory throughout all times; its colors, texture, rhythm, and above all, the values of language begin to gain representation in the practices that form the processes of constructing my language.
I am experiencing the interpretations and metaphors of the universe, which I have always felt the data and impulses within me and kneaded with consciousness, as a language, as a documentary index to be read throughout the entire human cultural history, beyond the dimensions of perception.
The whole issue is to be able to produce the documents, not the communication objects of language and writing.
Erkan Özdilek 2022 Istanbul, Turkey
