Hasan Bülent Kahraman curates “Double Faces” exhibition featuring Ergin İnan’s recent work. The exhibition can be visited between 14^th and 27^th of January at santralistanbul, Gallery 1.  One may argue that “Double Faces” indicates a break point at İnan’s work in portraiture.  

“Double Faces” indicates the ethical questioning İnan arrives after years of engagement with a painterly discovery in the notion of self.  As Levinas puts forward ethics starts with looking at the face of the other.  In this vein İnan’s “Double Faces” opens new horizons for a discussion of ethics in relation with face, otherness, and bipolar notions seemingly constitute our very own identity, looking similar from a distance yet radically different.   These works also reveals a tragic response to what Derrida named as ‘violence of vision’. Works, as usual, are situated in the cross sections of Western and Eastern metaphysics with all references to a large and wide cultural background.          

About the Artist:

The Artist was born in 1943 in Malatya, graduated from Institute of Applied Fine Arts, Istanbul 1968.  He contributed to group shows since 1972 as well as solo exhibitions. Berlin Dahlem Museum, Haus der Kunst-Munich, Kunstverein-Frechen, Cleveland Modern Art Museum, Bradford Museum, London British Museum, Belguim Fredrikstad Modern Art Museum Collections can be mentioned among the permanent collections that include some works of the Artist.

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