Dennis Gün
Dennis Mehmet Gün (* 1956 in Istanbul ; † February 25, 2014 in Berlin ) was a Turkish-Austrian artist for canvas painting as well as for video and sound art.
Life
Gün was born in 1956 as the son of an opera director and an opera singer and grew up in Istanbul and Vienna . His father founded the Istanbul Opera in 1960. As a teenager he was primarily interested in stage design and his father's directorial work. At the age of sixteen he left Istanbul and moved to Vienna, where he accepted Austrian citizenship.
From 1977 to 1983 Gün studied at the "Academy of Fine Arts" in Vienna and completed his studies with a master's degree in painting and art philosophy. He then studied astrophysics from 1982 to 1984 in Vienna, where his first solo exhibition took place in 1978. In the following years he took part in the “Cité International des Arts” in Paris and the “Berlin Artists Program DAAD” in Berlin. Until 1992 he lived in New York City , where he mainly dealt with photography and video art. In the early 1990s he wrote essays on photography, painting and philosophy, a. a. "Salome", "Essay Hell" and "Hot Memories". Until 2002 he mainly devoted himself to video works, electronic sound installations and other art projects in museums and in public places. a. "Un Hommage à Heiner Müller", "Martin Heidegger", "Himmel und Hölle / Heaven and Hell", "L'avenir dure long temps (Louis Althusser)", "Fluid-Time-Conversation", "L'image-mouvement (Gilles Deleuze) ”,“ The Byzantine ”,“ Mephisto Walzer ”,“ Time & Space ”,“ Video Drawings ”and“ The Nothings ”.
After a phase of New Painting, he turned to video drawing and video painting. Since 2007 he has concentrated primarily on photography and created the series "The Street" and "A late Evening in the Past". His photographs are productions with elements from the theater, painting and the fashion world, which often give the appearance of a film scene. His pictures are like a film, he says, but they only have a frame.
His still life photographs often have aspects of 17th and 18th century Dutch painting. From 2012/13 he again turned intensively to painting. Since 1976 he has lived in Istanbul, Vienna, New York, Rome, Paris, London and Berlin.
His work has been published in editions of Lettre International, Berlin, Art Press, Paris, and Art + Action, New York. Wieland Schmied , Thomas Messer , Christos Joachimides , Edouard Roditi and Joachim Sartorius have written introductory texts for the publications . In 2006 the Wilfried Dickhoff publishing house published the “Upgrade” catalog with philosophical texts on Gün's floral acrylic paintings.
Collections (selection)
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- United Nations Center, Vienna
- Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara
- Schering AG, Berlin
- Neve Shalom Synagogue, Jewish Center, Istanbul
- Ruhnke building, Berlin
- Istanbul Modern (Museum of Modern Art), Istanbul
- Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art , Istanbul
Web links
- Literature by and about Dennis Gün in the catalog of the German National Library
- official homepage
- Dennis Guen ( Memento from July 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gün, Dennis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guen, Dennis; Gun, Dennis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish-Austrian visual artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |