Fikret Atay. SPRING FEVER

Tirana Art Center is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Fikret Atay “Spring Fever”, curated by Fani Zguro, in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery, Vlore. “Spring Fever” is a video that focuses on the student demonstrations that took place in Paris in 2005 and will be presented at The Promenade Gallery space.

Fikret Atay - Artist Statement

I was born in Batman in 1976. I am a graduate of Dicle University Fine Arts Faculty. I live in a town where it is practically impossible to produce art. I get more pleasure from producing art in the context of the impossible than I would producing in the metropolitan context. Difficulty plus success is perhaps the starting point of the most wonderful and powerful work. To penetrate daily life, to find the depth of the time in the moment, to reflect this in the town in which one lives and to struggle for understanding…these are the difficulties faced in producing art in this town. Am I able to decode the passwords? Can the codes change? Could the Chaos of communication achieve a balance? These are the questions that seek to break out. Being alone in Batman is to not exist. One only lives while working, as if life is concentrated into the making of a ninety minute film. When one’s work travels to the ‘center’ it’s as though this film is being screened. When the film is over existence ends. Yet here life goes on. And I live here.

Fikret Atay has exhibited also at Viafarini, Milan and Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen (2010), Outlet, Istanbul and Lyon Biennial (2009), New Museum, New York (2008), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (2007), UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2006), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torin (2005), Tate Modern, London (2004), Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2003), Apex Art, New York (2002) etc.

Fikret Atay
SPRING FEVER
Kurator Fani Zguro
Tirana Art Center in Kooperation mit The Promenade Gallery, Vlora