‘The Most Expensive Paintings of the World’ on display

An exhibition opened by a Turkish multidisciplinary artist involved in painting, sculpting, writing, stage design and directing is coming to Istanbul this March.

Genco Gülan, who is also a video, Internet and performance artist calls his latest exhibition “The Most Expensive Paintings of the World.” Of course, his paintings are not the most expensive ones in the world, but he reinterpreted the world’s most important and expensive 10 paintings by Pollock, Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Rubens, Jasper Johns, Monet, Cézanne, Warhol and Malevich.

His art brings together the valuable and worthless, old and new. By using different materials, technology and techniques, Gülan makes conceptual art.

The exhibition, which opened its doors on March 4, will continue through April 3 at Cihangir’s Daire Art.

The artist worked like a curator while choosing the artists and the works. Even though he researched widely for his project, he also used many of his previous favorites for the exhibition.

Gülan questions the criteria of art and its market with his new exhibition and aims to make the audience think of visual esthetics and ethics.

He opened his exhibition in Ankara, Bodrum and Berlin at the beginning of the year. The gallery is open from Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Address: Akarsu Cad. Şimşirci Sokak Santral Apt. No.11/1 Cihangir

Tel: 0212 244 1268 / www.dairesanat.com