Horasan. (Detail) 1946, 2013/2014, oil
on canvas, 200 x 170 cm.
HORASAN
When the Time Comes
07.04.’14 – 28.05.’14
press release
One of Turkey’s
seminal multidisciplinary artists, Horasan presents
a series of new
paintings alongside photography, collage and video work.
When The Time Comes, at Pi Artworks London from 7 April – 17 May
2014,
will focus on the
toll of time, man’s quest for immortality and the defiance of the human spirit
in the face of the ravages of age.
Time take its toll.
It has the power to transform, to create and
to destroy, and we, as humans, evolve with it.
For Horasan, the aging process is a haunting
reminder of our precarious position in this world,
and the fact that we
have no staying power.
He argues that the
elderly have no place in today’s consumer-driven society.
We are obsessed with
youth and beauty, as evidenced with our increasing dependence on
plastic surgery and
the promise of age-defying cosmetics, an act of defiance in the face of nature.
However, time is more powerful, and a great leveller, eventually rendering us
all equals
– indistinguishable
in gender, we appear sexless.
Pi ARTWORKS London
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