Exhibition 'Legal Tender' at Kasa Gallery
From September 5th until October 27th , 2007, Kasa
Gallery presents the exhibition Legal Tender conceptualised by Sencer
Vandarman. With this group exhibition
the young Berlin-based artist focuses on the former function of the location as
a bank and teams up with Rey Akdogan, Mario Asef, Fulya Çetin and Tobias Laukemper
to trace the many meanings of the term Legal Tender.
The artists take the task
and display their projects allotted in the three main spaces of the Gallery:
Rey Akdogan (*1974,
lives and works in Berlin and New York) adds a humorous notion to the term and
space, by staging an accessible microcosm, a conglomerate of typical materials
used to outfit the foyer of a bank, which functions as a space of
representation.
Mario Asef (*1971 Córdoba, Argentina, lives and works in Berlin) work titled The
Mystery and the Wonder almost follows the lead of visualising a long lost
space.
Fulya Çetin (*1970
Istanbul, lives and works in Istanbul) approaches the subject Legal Tender on
a very intimate level through portraits. As the term does not only refer to
money itself, Çetin focuses on very personal and everyday life in Turkish
culture and ways of handling payments.
Tobias Laukemper
(*1970 Düsseldorf, lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin) work titled „The
Script“, which duplicates extracts of social reality is staged in the vault of
the bank, which builds an analogy of dominance with the power symbol of money.
Exhibition dates: 5 September – 27 October 2007
Opening: 5 September, 18:30
Sabancı
Üniversitesi Kasa Galeri, Bankalar Cad.No:2 Karaköy-
Tel: 0212 292 49 39/1508