Master artist Su Yücel will be at Galeri Diani with her solo exhibition “CAPTURED TIME”, her works that are almost like a documentary in which she portrays hope, what she chooses from the fleeting moments and freezes them before they get old!

Multidisciplinary artist Su Yücel’s exhibition entitled “Captured Time” is taking place between April 8 and April 29, 2023 at Galeri Diani. In this exhibition, the artist captures his experiences in the moment and conveys what remains in his mind to us by combining human-induced experiences all over the world and in our country, moments of nature with the joy of living. While he shares his memory of life with us with the spirit of a documentary filmmaker, he transfers the life, time and space elements in his palette to the audience by melting them together.

“I followed the smell, noise, colors, texture of time; I recorded it without wasting time,” says Su Yücel, and looks at almost every moment of life like a painting. In the transfer of her artistic language to the canvas, she blends her knowledge with the moments that remain in her mind, takes a photo of the moment and shares her feeling with the audience. In some of her works, she even depicts the framing and keys of the camera, she both captures the moment and transfers that moment to memories.

As we all know, Su Yücel is constantly nurturing her art with her documentary direction and travelogue. Her sincere dialogues with nature and people find a place in her works, she paints. While filming his dialogues with people and nature while shooting a documentary, he also illustrates his emotions.

The master artist digs deep into the details that everyone does not see or feel in daily life and chases after those details and tells us how important these details are to us, the viewers, and that they create moments and memories.

As an artist who loves colors, Su Yücel also emphasizes the importance of poetry as a family tradition in her works. While saying that different disciplines unite on a common denominator in art. “My talent, joy and excitement is more towards color. Because color is something that excites me. I can’t see life without color,” she says.

“CAPTURED TIME” exhibition awaits you, the audience, at Galeri Diani between April 8-29, 2023.

Who is Su Yücel?

Su Yücel, the granddaughter of Hasan Ali Yücel, the daughter of poet and translator Can  Yücel and painter Güler   Yücel, was born in London in 1961… The painting he named “Lunch in the Field” in 1974, during the postage stamp issued by the PTT He won the first prize in the Design Competition and one million copies were printed. He started his education at the Strasbourg Beaux-Arts Academy in 1979, in the painting department. She took lessons from camile Hirtz, Camile Claus and Sarkis Zabunyan she. She took part in the group exhibition at Gallery Mont Charge in Strasbourg in 1984. In the same year, she opened her first solo exhibition at the Galata Art Gallery in Istanbul. She was invited to Jordan in 1986. He exhibited his paintings reflecting his Jordanian observations for six months at Petra Bank Gallery in Amman. He was the art director of the films “A Handful of Sky” directed by Ümit Elçi in 1987 and “Ada” directed by Süreyya Duru in 1988. She exhibited her collections in a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Fine Art Gallery in 1991, when she was in Canada. In 1997, she held the “Poetry, Painting and Jazz” meeting with Can Yücel, Reent Bölükbaşı and Ali Peret. In 2000, she received the “Best Stage Design” award by the Art Institute with “Can Oyun” directed by Genco Erkal.

The artist took part in many social projects. In 2002, within the framework of the Women for Peace Initiative (WINPEACE), she held painting workshops with women from Izmir-Karaburun and Lesbos, and with the KAMER Foundation and women in the Southeast. The works that emerged from these works were exhibited in Lesbos, Karaburun, Athens, Rhodes, Diyarbakır and Istanbul. The traces of the projects he carried out with women from Aegean and Southeast became visible in the exhibition titled “Tılsım” he held in 2004.

In 2006 she realized the “Mediterranean” series to be exhibited permanently in the lobby of the Antalya Barut Hotel. In 2009, she assisted the German director Karl Kneidl’s Fidelio opera at the Augsburg State Opera and Ballet. The same year she opened her solo exhibition at Daskunst im Augenblick in Vienna.

The artist has been working on Novels in recent years. In 2010, upon the invitation of Tarlabaşı Community Center, she held workshops with women from Tarlabaşı and exhibited the results of these in Tarlabaşı. She held personal exhibitions in Istanbul and Izmir in 2010. He is currently preparing a series of art-themed documentaries covering different regions of Turkey for Iz TV. At the same time, documentary films continue on  Habitat TV.

In 2013, the Middle East Technical University awarded the artist with the Appreciation Award for his professional achievements and contributions to the country. He still continues his documentary and painting works.

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