ABOUT ME

NUR GÜREL

1980 İstanbul doğumlu Nur Gürel, 2004 yılında lisans eğitimini  Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Resim Bölümü’nde, yüksek lisans eğitimini, 2007’de yine aynı okulda tamamladı.

Nur Gürel, toplumu tüketim toplumu haline getiren tüm dayatmalar ve onların sonuçlarıyla ilgilenir. Bu konuda en büyük enstrümanı manipülasyondur. Önceki çalışmalarda, malzeme olarak dekorasyonda kullanılan manzara resimli duvar kağıtlarnı kullanırken, son dönem işlerinde  bu hazır görsel imajlara, fotoğraflar,dergiler, posterler ve billboard reklamları da  malzeme olarak dahil olur. İç-dış, fotoğraf-resim, dijital baskı-pentür, kent -orman, zayıf- şişman gibi zıtlıklar kullanarak işlerinde gerilim oluşturmayı hedefler. İmaja, dijital değil özellikle primitif bir duyarlılıkla, elle müdahale eder. Bu şekilde, sterilize reklam dili kırılır, doğallaşır. Konular manipüle edilmek istenen şeye göre değişir. Önceki dönem işlerde, yoğun kentsel dönüşüm çalışmalarıyla ilgili manipülatif tespitler gerçekleştirilirken, şimdi reklam dili işlerin kavramsal temelini oluşturmaktadır. Sanatını,görsel imaj üzerine manipülasyon olarak niteleyen Gürel, İstanbul da yaşamakta ve üretmektedir.

Nur Gürel born in Istanbul in 1980. Lives and works in Istanbul.

Received B.A. (1999) and M.F.A. (2003) from Painting Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul.

Nur Gürel is interested in all impositions that render the society into a consumption society and their results. Her biggest instrument on this subject is manipulation. While she used landscape picture wallpapers as material in decoration in previous work, she included photographs, magazines, posters and billboard advertisings to this ready visual images in the late work. She aims to create tension in her work by using contrasts such as inside-outside, photo-painting, digital printing-painting, town-forest, thin-fat. It intervenes the image with a primitive sensitivity and hands rather than digitally. In this way, sterilized advertising language is broken and becomes natural. Subjects vary according to what is desired to be manipulated. Gürel, describing her art as a manipulation on visual image, lives in Istanbul and continues to create.

Nur GÜREL

1998   İstanbul Anadolu Fine Arts High School

2004  Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Universty,Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department. B.F.A

2004   Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Universty Painting Department Fresco Workshop

2007   Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Universty Painting Department, M.F.A.

 

Awards

2004    Sakıp Sabancı Awards ,Third  prize

2002    İpek –  Ahmet Merey Painting Competition, First Prize

2001    Kalp Vakfı Painting Competition, Second Prize

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012    “Kuşatma – The Siege”,Artgalerim Nişantaşı Art Gallery, İstanbul

2009    “Yığın – Mass”,  Ziraat Bankası, Mithatpaşa Art Gallery, Ankara

Selected Exhibitions

2016

Artist 2016, İnternational İstanbul Art Fair, “Umulmadık Topraklar – Unexpected

Territories”, “Genişleyebilir Büyüklük, Partes Extra Partes”

“Contemporary Istanbul” Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul

“Bana Doğruyu Söyle, Lütfen – Tell me the truth, please”,Vis Art Gallery, İstanbul

“Kirli – Dirty”, Toz Artist Run Space, İstanbul

“Korku – Fear”,  , Bozlu Art Project, İstanbul

“Alter Hero”, Gaia Gallery, İstanbul

2015

“Contemporary Istanbul” Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul

“Space Atelier II” , Cermodern, Ankara

“On paper”,Gaia Gallery, İstanbul

Mamut Art Project 2015,İstanbul

2014

“Ben Hep Biraz Fazla- Me Always a Less More”, Muse Istanbul,Istanbul

2013

“Samimiyetle Hacklendim- Hacked Me in İntimacy”, Ark Kultur, İstanbul

M.E.T.U Art 14 Exibition. Ankara

 

2012

“Contemporary Istanbul” Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul

“Kıyamet-Apocalypse”, Artgalerim Nişantaşı Art Galery, İstanbul

2011

“Contemporary Istanbul” Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul

“1.İstanbul Summer Exibition” Beyaz Art, Art Port, İstanbul

“Dream Night”,Swiss Otel, İzmir

2010

“Bağlantı-Connection”, Artgalerim Nişantaşı Art Galery, İstanbul

“Le Printems des Artistes – Spring of Artists”, Od’A- Ouvroir d’Art, Saint Pulcherie, İstanbul

Young Masters /100 young painters Exibition, MKM, İstanbul

2009

216 Thinking And Production Zone, “System Failure” Joint Exibition, Istanbul Art Fair TUYAP

“My Name is Casper” Gelenkültür Exibition, 216 Thinking And Production Zone, “ “System Failure” Joint Exibition, H.Y.L.T. ve Karşı Sanat, İstanbul.

216 Thinking And Production Zone,Memory Book: Hasanpaşa”, Joint Exibition,

Hasanpaşa Gazhanesi, İstanbul

216 Thinking And Production Zone,Memory Book: Moda”, Joint Exibition,The Art Studio, Kadıköy, İstanbul

Art Show 2009, Terakki Art Gallery, İstanbul

33st DYO Juried Exhibition

Mi-Ge Art Gallery,Workshop, Ankara

“Teneffüs” Joint Exhibition,Moda/Kadıköy, İstanbul

“Metropol” Joint Exhibition,Selçuk Yaşar Art Gallery, İzmir

Joint Exhibition Doruk Art Gallery, İstanbul

2007

Ankara University, 2nd International Open Stone Sculpture and Painting Symposium, Ankara

2006

Chisinau Painter’s Campus, MOLDOVIA

Ankara University, 1st International Open Stone Sculpture and Painting Symposium, Ankara

“Young Comments In figurative expressions” Joint Exhibition, Ortaköy Art Gallery,  İstanbul.

“-35 Ages” Joint Exhibition –Terakki Art Gallery, İstanbul.

2005

Artist 2005, İnternational Contemporary Art Exposition, Workshop, Mi-ge Art Gallery, İstanbul.

2004

14st. Istanbul Art Fair TUYAP Istanbul Exh. Palace,Karşı Art work, İstanbul.

Joint Exibition,Koşuyolu Art Gallery, İstanbul.

“Want to see what I see?” Joint Exibition,

Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Art Gallery, İstanbul.

2003

Bordum / Aspat Workshop,Toyan Art Gallery, Bodrum.

2002

Kunstakademie Münster ( Buluşma – Begegnung – Meeting ) Workshop, Almanya.

2001

Değirmendere Second Painting Symposium

Dz.K.K. . Juried Exhibition

T.J.K 5. Juried Exhibition

İpek- Ahmet Merey Juried Exhibition

13st. KalpVakfı Juried Exhibition