Burhan Cahit Doğançay

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Burhan Doğançay in the Doğançay Museum

Burhan Cahit Doğançay (born September 11, 1929 in Istanbul ; † January 16, 2013 ibid) was a Turkish - American painter and photographer living in New York City and Istanbul .

biography

Doğançay was trained early on in artistic matters by his father, the Turkish painter Adil Doğançay , and the painter Arif Kaptan . After completing a law degree at Ankara University , he went to Paris in the early 1950s to do a doctorate in economics at the University of Paris and to study art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . After a brief career in the diplomatic service, which brought him to New York in 1962, Doğançay decided to settle permanently in New York in 1964 and to devote himself entirely to art. In his later years he also lived partly in the Turkish city of Turgutreis .

art

Doğançay made urban walls and walls the subject of his art. In his eyes they were "barometers of our society and witnesses of the transience of time, steadfast against the onslaught of the elements and the traces of the people". Urban walls were one of the many familiar things Dogancay found in everyday life. He understood them as "documents of the respective climate and zeitgeist, as codes of social, political and economic change". The serial character of the investigation, the exaggeration of the characteristic into ornamental patterns, is essential for Dogancay's approach. In it he formulates a consistent continuation of decollagistic strategies - quasi the recontextualized deconstruction of positions around the Nouveau Réalistes , whose new reality consisted in overcoming the gap between art and life.

One side of Doğançay's creative nature is shown in the persistent struggle for the painterly, graphic and sculptural form, for the constant further development, refinement and diversification of what was perfected at an early stage. The other side of his artistic personality is that of a polyglot, cosmopolitan wanderer between different geographical, political, mental and cultural worlds. The influences of his travels through more than 500 cities in over 100 countries on 5 continents often flowed into his works. Walls have a special meaning for the artist - transforming walls into art was his passion. He was interested in removing the walls from their familiar surroundings / position and transforming them into an aesthetic object. Doğançay, however, does not see his work as a pure representation of urban walls; his style of painting is tied to his emotional life, which sometimes allows for a subjective interpretation.

Doğançay has received many awards for his work, including a lifetime achievement award, presented by the Turkish President.

Walls of the World (Photography)

In the mid-1970s, Doğançay began to photograph urban walls and walls, a project that he classified as secondary at the time. This project, which the artist called "Walls of the World", quickly gained in importance. After almost four decades, his collection includes around 30,000 photographs from more than a hundred countries. In 1982 the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris organized a solo exhibition of his photographs under the title Les Mures Murment, Ils Crient, Ils Chantent ... (“The walls whisper, they scream, they sing ...”). Doğançay's recordings are an archive of our time and the basis for his paintings, which also document our time. The “Walls of the World”, like the entire work of Doğançay, take account of the demand that emerged in the 1960s to bring the reality of life back into art. Doğançay's encyclopedic approach focuses exclusively on the structures, signs, symbols and images that people leave behind on walls. Not out of a lack of imagination, but because he finds the entire spectrum of the conditio humana in a single motif, without cultural, racial, political, geographical, stylistic etc. restrictions. The general human aspect of the messages always superimposes and dominates the special features of the most diverse places and even levels out the differences in time. In addition to the city walls, Burhan Doğançay turned to another object in photography: the Brooklyn Bridge, which was renovated in 1986 and he climbed onto the bridge with the workers so that he could photograph it in all details from a height.

Paintings and collages

His work, which is documented in numerous books, consists of paintings, sculptures, photos, graphics, drawings and Aubusson tapestries. Initially, Dogancay worked on the subject of “urban walls” using his preferred medium, collage . The most important components for this are the posters and objects / fragments that he collected from and near the walls and partially processed using the means of " fumage " (blackening through the soot trail of a candle ). Doğançay recreated walls, he worked in series, each related to doors, colors, graffiti styles or the objects that he integrated into his works. He takes the freedom to develop his art without looking sideways, only from the internal laws of his own work. He only measures the masters of the same kind in the last heroic phase of art he has experienced and helped to shape, preferably Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns . So the diversification of his complex and thoroughly experimental painterly work always remains in the spectrum of photorealism and abstraction , of Pop Art and material image / montage / collage. In the spirit of Pop Art, he uses set pieces from everyday life and begins to overlay posters or advertising material layer by layer. An important means of expression for Doğançay is the repetition, the multiplication of the element “urban wall”. He creates works that suggest spatiality, but also cause irritation, as they walk on the border between abstraction and objectivity.

His lithographs, created in 1969 at the Tamarind Institute in Los Angeles - directed by June Wayne - illustrate his struggle for a new compositional order. In the 1970s and 1980s, his interpretation of the urban walls resulted in the Ribbons series , which became his trademark, the individual works of which, in contrast to the collaged poster pieces, consist of clean acrylic strips and their calligraphic cast shadows. Calligraphy is a tradition of Islamic culture, but it can also be found in the work of leading European modern artists such as Cy Twombly . The basis were three-dimensional maquettes , with which Doğançay shows how the technique of collage from the two-dimensionality of paper spills over into space and later also gave the impetus for shadow sculptures made of Alucobond and aluminum as well as Aubusson wall carpets.

Doğançay Museum

In 2004, Doğançay opened Turkey's first contemporary museum, the Doğançay Museum in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district . The museum shows around 100 of Doğançay's works from his most important creative periods. His works are also represented in the collections of prominent museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Works in museums (selection)

Awards

  • 2005: Contribution to the Arts Award given by International Contemporary Art Exposition, İstanbul
  • 2005: Art Honor Award given by Art Forum Plastic Arts Fair, Ankara
  • 2004: Honorary doctorate from Hacettepe University, Ankara
  • 2004: Painter of the Year Award given by Sanat Kurumu, Ankara
  • 1995: National Medal for the Arts for Lifetime Achievement & Cultural Contribution awarded by the President of the Turkish Republic
  • 1992: Medal of Appreciation awarded by the Russian Ministry of Culture
  • 1984: Enka Arts & Science Award, İstanbul
  • 1969: Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship, Los Angeles
  • 1964: Certificate of Appreciation awarded by the City of New York

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976: Istanbul: Gallery Baraz. Burhan Dogançay
  • 1977: Zurich: Wolfsberg Art Salon . Acrylic paintings and gouaches 1966–1976
  • 1982: Paris: Center Georges Pompidou. Les murs murmurent, ils crient, ils chantent ...
  • 1983: Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain
  • 1983: Antwerp, International Cultural Center
  • 1989: Tokyo: The Seibu Museum of Art – Yurakucho Art Forum. Dogançay
  • 1992: St. Petersburg: The State Russian Museum. Walls and Doors 1990-1991
  • 1993: Istanbul: Ataturk Cultural Center. Walls 1990-1993
  • 2000: New York: The Brooklyn Historical Society. Bridge of Dreams.
  • 2001: Istanbul: Dolmabahçe Cultural Center. Dogançay: A Retrospective (Organized by Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation)
  • 2001: Athens, Ohio: Kennedy Museum of Art – Ohio University. Dogançay Wall Paintings from the Museum Collection
  • 2003: Siegen: Siegerland Museum. Walls of the World
  • 2012: Istanbul: Istanbul Modern : Fifty Years of Urban Walls, retrospective. Curator: Levent Çalıkoğlu
  • 2014: Istanbul: Dogançay Museum . Picture the World: Burhan Dogançay as Photographer
  • 2016: Essen: Museum Folkwang . New to the collection: Burhan Dogancay
  • 2016: Ankara: CE Modern. Picture the World: Burhan Dogançay as Photographer
  • 2016: Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Belém. Picture the World: Burhan Dogançay as Photographer
  • 2016: Taipei: National Museum of History. Picture the World: Burhan Dogançay as Photographer
  • 2017: Siegen: Siegerland Museum. Without a net and a floor
  • 2017: Vienna: Albertina . Burhan Dogançay (works on paper)
  • 2018: Leverkusen: Museum Morsbroich . Sign on the wall
  • 2018: Tucson / AZ: University of Arizona Museum of Art. Picture the World: Burhan Dogançay as Photographer

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972: New York: Pace Gallery . Printmakers at Pace
  • 1977: New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum . From the American Collection
  • 1983: Washington: The National Museum of Natural History , Smithsonian Institution
  • 1987: Istanbul: 1st International Istanbul Biennial
  • 1999: New York: Museum of the City of New York , The New York Century: World Capital, Home Town, 1900–2000
  • 2006: Fredonia, NY: Rockefeller Arts Center Art Gallery. Connoisseurship
  • 2009: Museum der Moderne Salzburg . SPOTLIGHT
  • 2009: Biel / Bienne: CentrePasquArt. Collage – Décollage: Dogançay – Villeglé
  • 2009: Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau . Istanbul next wave
  • 2010: London: British Museum . Modern Turkish Art at the British Museum
  • 2010: Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center , Perlman Gallery. 50/50: Audience and Experts Curate the Paper Collection
  • 2012: Vienna: Belvedere , Orangery. Kokoschka is looking for a framework
  • 2012: Masstrich: Bonnefantenmuseum . Different impressions, changing traditions
  • 2013: Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Uncontainable portraits
  • 2013: Doha: Bahrain National Museum. Istanbul Modern Bahrain
  • 2013: Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble - Bibliothèque Teisseire-Malherbe, Les Mots dans l'Art
  • 2013: Zurich: Museum Haus Konstruktiv . Hotspot Istanbul
  • 2013: Minneapolis: Weisman Art Museum . Reviewing The Real
  • 2013: New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Fifty Years of Collecting Islamic Art
  • 2014: Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. National Pride (and Prejudice)
  • 2015: Stockholm: Moderna Museet. A Larger World
  • 2015: Istanbul: Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. Artists in Their Time
  • 2015: Leverkusen: Museum Morsbroich. Eddie Murphy and the Milk Brothers
  • 2016: Los Angeles: LACMA . Islamic Art Now, Part 2
  • 2016: Istanbul: Elgiz Museum. Faces & Masks
  • 2016: Purchase / NY: Neuberger Museum of Art. Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source
  • 2016: Geneva: Musee d'Art et d'Histoire. Regard de Guru
  • 2017: Minneapolis: Weisman Art Museum . Prince from Minneapolis
  • 2017: Wolfsburg: Wolfsburg Art Museum . In the cage of freedom
  • 2017: Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght . Is this how men live?
  • 2017: Minneapolis: Weisman Art Museum . Prince from Minneapolis
  • 2018: Ankara: Evliyagil Museum. Icons of Thinking: Images and Texts
  • 2019: Vienna: Albertina. Warhol to judge
  • 2019: Istanbul: Istanbul Modern. The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles
  • 2019: Wolfsburg: Wolfsburg Art Museum. Now is the time
  • 2019: Geneva: MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain: Collection (s)

literature

  • Emslander, Fritz, Dogramaci, Burcu, "Burhan Doğançay characters on the wall", Vienna, VfmK, 2018, ISBN 978-3903228726
  • Schröder, Klaus-Albrecht, Lahner, Elsy, "Burhan Dogancay", Vienna, Hirmer Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3777428871
  • Edelbert Köb , Margit Zuckriegl, Marilyn Kushner and others: Picture the World - Burhan Dogancay As Photographer. Dogancay Museum Publications, Istanbul 2014, ISBN 978-605-650430-3 .
  • Levent Calikogu, Clive Giboire, Brandon Taylor, Richard Vine: Fifty Years of Urban Walls: A Burhan Dogançay Retrospective. Prestel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-5219-0 .
  • Brandon Taylor: Urban Walls - A Generation of Collage in Europe and America. Hudson Hills Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-55595-288-4 .
  • Ursula Blanchebarbe: Walls of the World. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-936646-07-4 .
  • Emel Budak: Burhan Dogancay: A Retrospective. Duran Editions, Istanbul 2001, ISBN 975-97427-2-1 .
  • Richard Vine: Burhan Dogançay: Works on Paper 1950-2000. Hudson Hills Press, New York 2003, ISBN 1-55595-226-7 .
  • Phillip Lopate: Bridge of Dreams. Hudson Hills Press, New York 1999, ISBN 1-55595-173-2 .
  • Roy Moyer, Jacques Rigaud, Thomas M. Messer: Dogançay. Hudson Hills Press, New York 1986, ISBN 0-933920-61-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ressam Burhan Doğançay vefat etti
  2. ↑ CentrePasquArt, Biel , accessed on September 2, 2015.
  3. ^ Kunsthalle Mannheim, Nouveau Réalisme , accessed on February 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Eczacibasi Collection , accessed on September 2, 2015.
  5. ^ Museum Morsbroich: Signs on the wall , accessed on February 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Les Murs Murment, Center Pompidou , accessed September 11, 2015
  7. ^ Istanbul Next Wave, Akademie der Künste Berlin , accessed August 17, 2016
  8. ↑ Die Pop-Art (popular art) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 11, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ltgprien.de
  9. ^ MAK, Vienna , accessed on June 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Doğançay, Burhan Cahit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-American painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2013
Place of death Istanbul