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Artist Statement:
Form is important in my work.
I use round forms - my
latest works are of
tulips--abstracted so that
they have a life of their own.
My previous works consisted
of almost magnified detail of
organic forms.
Detail has always been
important - i believe the
essence of being is hidden...
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Artist Exhibitions:
1992-UMIT YASAR GALLERY,
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1995-ROBERT COLLEGE ALUMNI
GALLERY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1997-CEMAL RESIT REY GALLERY,
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1998-AKATLAR CULTURAL CENTER,
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1998-ASMALIMESCIT ART GALLERY,
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1999-KOC UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL,
TURKEY
1999-KOC-ALLIANZ ART GALLERY,
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1999-PROFILO ART GALLERY,
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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Artist Galleries:
www.asmalimescit.com
www.agora-gallery.com
www.gencsanat.org
www.demart.com
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Collections:
Ms.Janet Smith, Coca-Cola,
Texas, U.S.A
Mr.Paul Jeffery, Hong Kong
Ms. Jolie Turkmen, Istanbul,
Turkey
Mr. Aynur Canli, Istanbul,
Turkey
Mr. Ziya Yagci, Istanbul,
Turkey
Ms. Zeliha Sayili, Istanbul,
Turkey
Ms. Ipek Kadilar Altiner,
Istanbul,Turkey
Ms. Aysim Incesulu, Istanbul,
Turkey
Sirinoglu Yacht, Istanbul,
Turkey
Mr. ...
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At first glance, we see objects, ‘things’ or motifs which are familiar to us. Filled with symbols of being, coming-going, life-death and rebirth and the hidden innate essence of creation-birth and fertility. Vegetables, flowers, trees, seashells, rams, and roots. These symbols, signs and traces, summon with force, everything that lives and breathes. Sevgi Cagal zooms in on these objects with a keen awareness and concentration. She chooses the details and emphasizes them while searching for the transition from the detail to the whole, from the whole to its detail, she captures folds, layers, ebbing and projecting, that succeed in arousing our interest with suspicion. The plains, valleys, hills are exaggerated, as if under a microscope. While doing this, she uses forms which reveal yet go beyond the limits of the objects she chooses to depict. Curvaceous, soft lines, and round surfaces. Forms which are interwined- one inside the other, yet at the same time separate form an importance in their dialectical one-ness- of the whole. Her colors change gradually from one surface to the other with the effect of the light.. Ice blues. And warmer tones, mostly blues. Greens and careful reds. Yellows and whites which melt into each other without soiling. At this point, the intensity, the depth of the spatial motion and timelessness is unveiled-revealed on the canvas.
Sevgi`s paintings are filled with a sensitivity which is at the same time real, imaginary, constant and intense. It is for this reason that her paintings evoke an aesthetic gratification which is fullfilling, regardless of its contradictory effect at first glance. This could be due to the excitement innate in the creative process of the work. Sevgi surrenders herself to the unrestrained painting on the provocative void of the bare canvas. Whether it be the blooms, or the nameless, fairy-tale flowers on large canvases, product of a brave progression or her laying of a fruit on the autopsy table. She fills a peapod with fetal forms. She creates a new climate for stout, bare, tree trunks.
But she constantly researches, experiments, and only moves ahead with speed after she succeeds in locating a footprint or a trail. Without a doubt these adventures are due to her creativity and cultural assimilation and accumulation. Instead of using existing images, she uses her own and her soul takes over her hands and her eyes and makes them its slave to do whatever it wants. It is only then that she paints with obsession the overlapping delicate petals and stems of tulips. It may be that for Sevgi, painting is an aching in the seed of her soul. It is such a pure and overpowering desire that with every desire she turns her vision toward the undeniable procreative obsession of nature-the fertilized seed, the eternity of the interwined grass. The fertile roundness, taut, smooth, mysterious, and full of promise, with exaggerated, yet soft lines, intense light/dark emphasis succeed in adding a sensuality of the flesh, an undeniably erotic, strong dimension to her painting. Sevgi, without a doubt, finds her objects and themes from nature and this in turn defines her aesthetic language-the merging of the light / dark, flat / dimensional, full / empty, open / closed in a striking manner on the canvas results in an animated, dynamic work. The eroticism we see is not related to the superficiality and pleasure associated with common sexuality but rather it is the quest for the innate dimension in the depths of all that is alive.
Sevgi doesn`t want to tell a story. What interests her is a cross-section, a reflection, an appearance and not the story. With a mature, self-assured manner, the artist`s work is pure, unpretentious and naked as the truth. The artist doesn`t burden her work with hidden, grave connotations but her choice of form and color by itself, creates a wealth of meaning and visual magical spell. This is the important aspect of her work. The visual beauty and the wholeness of her painting provides the credibility while the innate magic is an asset to the reality of the form which yields what we call an enchanted reality. I feel this is what renders her work different, singular and original. In her latest works the addition of flat color stains between the forms and in the background, have a pop-art effect on her work, which forms a stimulating and exciting atmosphere, which in turn is a novelty-very much in tune with her work. It is definite that Sevgi Cagal will make a successful leap in the art world in the very near future. Because she is moving ahead with sure steps and in her own special world filled with anxieties, questions, guests, and angst. Above everything else, she has a unique style which is pure, unpretentious and honest. Lastly, I`d like to say that Sevgi`s paintings come straight from her heart and conquer ours… Inci Aral
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