Sermin Kardestuncer

 

20 april - 21 may 2001 @pierogi

 

 

installation view
(twelve parts, black balls, holes on glassine, knit five)

 

 

 

installation view
(black on white, knit six, mud on paper)

 

 

 

 

 

 

installation view
(two-inch clay balls, knit three video)

 

 

 

 

knit five, 2001
thread, wood, 58" x 35 1/2" x 3"

 

 

 

 

 

mud on paper, 1999
mud, thread on paper, 22 1/2" x 30"
sold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

knit six, 2001
ink, nylon thread, 27" x 28" x 3"

 

 

 

 

black balls, 2000
thread, clay, canvas, 39 1/2" x 38" x 3/4"

 

 

 

 

19 march - 19 april 1999 @pierogi

 

photo: swee phuah

show invitation card (stitched wall)

 

press release

 

Pierogi is also pleased to present new work by Sermin Kardestuncer. KardestuncerÕs work is developed on a personal scale from a subjective point of view; she works primarily on her instincts. Drawn to her inner self, she has been thinking about and redefining her Turkish heritage, searching for logic in chance and trying to understand the rhythm in the way things happen.

Since her exhibition at Pierogi, two years ago, Kardestuncer has expanded her mediumÑher use of thread, for example. Besides stitching and knotting it, she is now exploring the next logical disciplineÑknitting and crochetingÑsometimes capturing objects, such as clay balls, inside the stitches. In the past Kardestuncer has stitched directly into walls, as well as imbedded clays balls into the wall surface.

Kardestuncer has been using thread in her work since the early 90Õs. What attracts her to thread is its limitless availability. The cotton thread is in some cases colored, coated with bees wax, or left natural in order to meet the demands of the surface and color. The nylon thread is painted with ink in increments to show the gradual transition from black to white. For Kardestuncer,

the making of these sculptures, which I call nonsensical things, is as much about progression and regression as it is about the natural order and disorder of things.

In this exhibition Kardestuncer will introduce video documentation to her work, where the knitted thread is seen continuously unraveling. Also included in the show will be works on paper.

 

read some press about this show... 


      		
  

  
 
    
      
 

      
 

      
 

      		
  

  
 
     
  

  
 
    
      
 

      
 

      
 

    		
  

  

    
  

  
 
    
    
  

  
 
    
  

  
 
     
     
      

        
 
          
           
            
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