Burçak Bingöl

Burçak Bingöl's Broken II (2013) is on view at the MET, as part of the group exhibition "Dialogues: Modern Artists and the Ottomon Past".

 

Broken II is part of a series in which the Turkish artist Burçak Bingöl questions Turkish society and heritage by repurposing its cultural narratives and deconstructing its everyday items. Here, irregularly broken ceramic pieces have been reassembled perpendicularly in a three-dimensional square panel. This work connects modern artistic practices to the traditional colorful ceramics produced throughout the centuries in the Islamic world. The rose decorations on the tile were transferred from an industrial pattern, but they recall the handmade motifs of Ottoman art, where the flower had both decorative and symbolic uses. The artist was inspired by fragments of ceramic tiles she perceived on Ottoman monuments in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey, a reflection of the historic layers of buildings and of societies. The title may allude to what is “broken” in modern Turkish society, yet the work also reveals the beauty that can be found in what is shattered. Broken II is Bingöl’s response to the French modernist Marcel Duchamp’s concept of “readymade” art—art made by recasting already-existing objects.

 

Broken II (2013)

Stonepaste; drawn, painted, glazed and glued

2023年10月13日