Artistic Dialogues II: Nilbar Güres & David Blandy

The Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is pleased to present the first comprehensive solo exhibition by British artist David Blandy and the Turkish artist to Nilbar Güres.

The show "Child of the Atom" by David Blandy transformed the second floor of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart in a movie theater and shows a selection of his video works. Nilbar Güres monographic exhibition "Self-defloration" in the fourth floor of the House of Artists is presenting the diversity of her artistic work, which deals with gender issues narrative.

Both exhibitions will be presented in the series artistic dialogues, using the parallel solo exhibitions taking place in each different artistic approaches to mutual problems and contexts combined and discussed together.

In videos, performances and processed comics who lives in London artist David Blandy (b. 1976), his ambivalent relationship with popular culture, where he highlights the tense relationship between reality and fiction in the daily grind.
Following the recent discussions about the nuclear power generation in Germany, shows the artist with the Stuttgart film "Child of the Atom" (2010), the latest work from David Blandy as part of a presentation of selected other videos.

In an interview on "Child of the atom," says David Blandy: "There is a myth in our family, which says that my grandfather, the Japanese prisoner of war would not have survived the atomic bomb on Hiroshima had not been dropped. One could argue that my existence one of the worst events in human history and the death of 110,000 people have to thank. "

The Vienna-based artist Nilbar Güres (b. 1977) is pursuing a performative and gender-specific approach based on cultural observations. She designs conceptual forms of cinematic settings, which transforms them in photographs, collages, drawings and video.

As a venue for the show "Çirçir" (2010), on the 6th of Berlin Biennale was first presented chooses Nilbar Güres a district of İstanbul, which is located in a troubled urban transformation. In Nilbar Güres "scripts" are often open-ended play with women living in a migrant, dominated by patriarchal structures, culture, the main role. You gain the ability to "liberate" themselves, while appealing to our collective consciousness.

The collage "Self-defloration" (2006) shows a female figure, which itself deflowered and points in an abstract way on the concept of "third Observation ".
Güreş makes it clear that she is particularly interested in how women react to their work. But also from "male" responses could be detected very accurate conclusions about their attitudes to gender issues.

Current Artists House leader Adnan Yildiz is working on one of RAMPA / Istanbul publication moved to Güreş 'artistic work.

Where Nilbar Güres uses the theatricality as a strategy for the development of open scripts, process design David Blandy, the history of cinema and pop culture references to its meta-narratives.

Both use the titles of individual works as "headlines" of their issue and position themselves so as artists, personal issues and political attitudes always set well with the basic existential needs in relationship.

"Child of the Atom" was made possible through the support of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Arts Council England.

Illustrations: Inko
Photography: Claire Barrett