Kemal Kahveci
Kemal KAHVECI was born in 1996 in Mersin, Turkey. In 2020, he graduated in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, near Akdeniz University in Antalya. During his fine arts education, he focused on classical sculpture practices and later developed his skills in kinetic sculpture. He is the author of several solo exhibitions at Den Art Gallery, Antalya (2022) and a participant in many joint exhibitions at the National Museum of Art and Sculpture, Ankara (2023); Turgut Pura Foundation, Izmir (2023); QNB – Finansbank Crystal Tower, Istanbul (2023); Akbank Sanat, Istanbul (2020); Tophane-i Amire Art and Culture Center, Istanbul (2029). His artistic creativity has been appreciated in various national competitions. He currently works and lives in Antalya.
Tetrahedral Heracles
Mixed media, 52 x 23 x 24 cm, 2024
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The conceptual approach:
The artwork is composed of the interweaving of found objects and thanks to a mechanism, it moves within a ring. The conceptual approach of this work of art with kinetic forms is characterized by calmness and silence. With repeated movements, the work is composed with pieces of different materials, creating a single image thanks to the assemblage, transforming into a metaphor for the time in which we live. Future descriptions strike a balance between certainty and uncertainty. The future shaped by technology alienates, simultaneously transforms the perception of and about time. Such an approach creates new relationships with time-space, so much so that people are unconsciously involved in a semiotic and representational life cycle, in this new relationship between art and technology.