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- Title
GÜNÜMÜZ SERAMİK PRATİKLERİNDE GEÇMİŞİN İZİNİ SÜRMEK.
- Authors
TİZGÖL, Kemal; YAZGAN, Gökçen Mete
- Abstract
Many contemporary artists derive inspiration from the historical and intellectual accumulation of cultures that are distant from their own or from the geographical regions they belong to, as well as from the artistic-plastic manifestations of these accumulations. The sum of cultural experiences referenced and recontextualized by the artist represents the great heritage extending from humanity’s past to the present. The artist’s engagement with the past and to the historical aspects can be seen as an effort to transpose past ways of life and experiences into the intellectual context of their own temporal plane. It is observed that artists employ different production methods and approaches in their works based on historical and cultural references. While some artists focus on transforming the symbolized formal-decorative elements of historical works as the main elements, another group of artists develop a sociological and political perspective by focusing on the conceptual underpinnings of the historical aspect. The main aim of this study is to determine how the “past” is reflected in contemporary ceramic artworks through formal and conceptual means, and by what means it is mediated to the present. In the study, the works of eight individual artists and one artist duo, who stand out in contemporary ceramic art, were examined using the comparative analysis method and iconographic interpretation method. The focus is on the reflections of historical-cultural data on ceramic materials, which are increasingly used in contemporary art, and the development of creative processes. The samples selected in the research were determined by the homogeneous sampling method. The examined works were subjected to a detailed comparison in terms of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual contexts, and an attempt to determine the modern-day equivalent of the historical data was made. It was observed that in the ceramic works discussed in the study, traditional elements were combined with contemporary perspectives and transformed into a new means of transmission rather than just a formal reminder of the past. The evolutionary movement of art has been achieved through pushing and transforming traditional boundaries, paving the way for creating a new language in art. Historical data, sometimes embedded and sometimes openly shown in the work, enable the viewer to be positioned in the present and provide exploration opportunities regarding cultural belonging. It is observed that ceramic as a material, which carries meaning with reference to the past and tradition, is increasingly included and accepted in contemporary art. This specific context of ceramic material has both an original and striking conceptualization feature when it comes to artistic expression. At this point, in today’s ceramic practices, the historical memory of clay as a material is used as a notable transfer tool by artists. As a result of the study, it was seen that artists from different cultures, focused on different qualities of the historical themes in their ceramic works that established strong relationships with historical references. In these works, different formal tendencies such as simplification, abstraction, stylization, and deconstruction become evident in the transformation and reconsideration of historical forms by artists; from a conceptual perspective, it has been determined that political contents such as cultural change and transformation, identity and belonging, myths and literary expressions, craft-art-industry comparison, women’s rights and feminism, migration-displacement, stand out as important representations in the works.
- Subjects
ART movements; CERAMIC materials; COLLECTIVE memory; PRODUCTION methods; SOCIAL change; WOMEN'S rights
- Publication
Journal of Art History / Sanat Tarihi Dergisi, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 1, p263
- ISSN
1300-5707
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29135/std.1405110