Silence - Ahmet Güneştekin

English

180 Pages

Editor: Marco Salucci

Italian-English translations: Sonia Hill

Art director: Paola Vannucchi

ISBN 978-88-7461-796-8

The book reconsiders Ahmet Güneştekin’s Silence exhibition at Palazzo Gradenigo through the lens of silence, a key element in the artist’s practice. Rather than treating silence as absence, it presents it as a space that reveals what is unseen, layers memory, and reshapes narrative. Brought out by Mandragora Publishing, it brings together a series of texts that explore works shaped by both individual and collective memory.

Curator Sergio Risaliti discusses the relationship between art, myth, and history, while Valentino Catricalà looks at how mythological narratives connect with contemporary political realities. Santa Nastro focuses on the production process, and Hasan Mert Kaya examines ideas of memory, threshold, and transition through the form of the door in different spatial and cultural contexts.

Güneştekin’s bronze sculptures and mixed-media works that incorporate century-old wooden doors go beyond aesthetic objects, acting as carriers of history, trauma, and shared experience.

In this context, the book approaches silence as a powerful way of telling stories, inviting readers to reflect on how art connects past and future.