3 May – 1 October 2017
Raconteur of Colours
Kunsthalle Dresden, Dresden
Represented by Galerie Michael Schultz
Curated by Christoph Tannert
Rebirth, 2017, Patchwork, 180 x 240 cm
Seven Sleepers, 2017, Patchwork, 180 x 240 cm
Jonah and Joseph, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 190 x 300 cm
Seven Apostles, 2013, Oil on Canvas, 190 x 300 cm
Sleep, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 290 x 350 cm
Destruction of Troy, 2015, Mixed Media, 150 x 200 x 20 cm
Seven Sleepers on Simurgh’s Wing, 2014, Oil on Canvas, 250 x 380 cm
Crimson Phoenix, 2017, Patchwork, 220 x 190 cm
Crimson Phoenix, 2017, Patchwork, 220 x 190 cm
Crimson Phoenix, 2017, Patchwork, 220 x 190 cm
Dervishes of the Sacred Time, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 130 cm
Medusa’s Secret, 2011, Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Icarus’s Challenge with Sun, 2014, Oil on Canvas, 200 x 150 cm
Love’s Mask, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 150 x 300 cm
Christoph Tannert —Colours, forms and stories from various cultural circles overlap. From the depths of his memory, the artist incessantly draws new treasures. The mythic past interwoven in an abstract, glowing, exemplary constellation is Güneştekin’s hallmark. He shows no inclination to address clear contents to the audience. Instead, he seems to be interested in preserving his presence what is left unsaid. The basis for this is his special pictorial-artistic statement, with which he conveys the peculiarities as well as myths and modernity of his culture. In a world of increasing loss of value, this artist brings a new value to the spiritual. For him, mysticism has an existential significance. The importance of his position is to focus his image-based world understanding on the limited spaces of the transition, but with the awareness that they are in a global context.