ŞEVKET SÖNMEZ'S “La-Vi-Da LAVIDA FAKE” EXHIBITION AT MERKUR 

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Şevket Sönmez appears before us with his new works spanning a wide range from the conceptual framework to the techniques he uses in his new solo exhibition titled 'La-Vi-Da Lavida Fake'. 'While wandering between calligraphy, storytelling, popular and official culture images, he takes his dynamic style from classical painting to wall aesthetics to an extreme point... 

 

'Lavidafake' can be seen as a 'code' marking the last exhibition of Sevket Sonmez. Although the phonetic 'timbre' game here is designed only for the process of creating and displaying these works, it also touches on the concepts that make up the main body of the exhibition... 

 

In this exhibition, despite all its weight, the philosophical 'spirit' emerges as a childlike writing-image. In all of his works, this 'spirit' is 'half hidden', as the artist calls it. draws attention to the relationship. What if the tulip flower, the symbol of all the virtuous actions of the 'Black Tulip', had turned into one of today's millions of plastic flowers? What leads to a qualitative conflict between something and its representation? Can 'good' and 'beautiful' be represented by 'ugly' and 'bad'? Can the original 'fake' you, the world be without 'moon'? A collusion between heroes and victims? At what point did the world of images turn into 'writing', the greatest 'technological' invention of humanity? Which state of representation is 'FAKE' According to him, 'childlike realism' is a key method for understanding life. People experience gains and losses in learning processes, every new information is the end of the situation experienced before... 

 

The wolf, who appeared before us as a 'fake' grandmother while we were singing spelled out in the forest, is the 'life' we live today. “La-Vi-Da LAVIDA FAKE”, the second solo exhibition he opened at Merkur, can be viewed between 28 October - 20 November 2013...