The Red Gaze
Tbilisi Future Edition
Ghost Exhibition 

Dedicated to the Georgian National Museum / Contemporary Art Gallery Tbilisi. Concept only. 

Curated by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh & House of Taswir

Artists:
Orthodox Icon, Tbilisi
Yves Berger
Memed Erdener a.k.a. Extramücadele
Pavel Florenskij (mural prose)
Erdem Gündüz (mural prose)
Şükran Moral (mural prose)
Erkan Özgen
Pablo Picasso (poem)
Sarkis
Arnold Schoenberg
Eşref Yılderım
Iliko Zautashvili 

The Red Gaze Tbilisi reinscribes the Berlin edition of The Red Gaze (2016)  in a different constellation.

Iliko Zautashvili, Rub Out the Word, 2014
Iliko Zautashvili, Rub Out the Word, 2014
ILIKO ZAUTASHVILI Rub out the Word, Dedicated to the Victims of the Totalitarian Regimes, 2014 Object mounted on mirror, type machine painted in black, black paper. 60 X 52 X 52 cm.
Mehmet Erdener a.k.a. Extramücadele, 2015
Mehmet Erdener a.k.a. Extramücadele, 2015
Memed Erdener a.k.a. Extramücadele The Truth and the Public, 2015 Eyeglasses, tin funnels, iron handles / Brille, Blechtrichter, Eisenbügel 6 x 16 x 14,5 cm © The artist
Arnold Schönberg Self-portrait / Selbstportrait, 1944
Arnold Schönberg Self-portrait / Selbstportrait, 1944
watercolor on paper / Aquarell auf Papier 27,8 x 21,5 cm / 52,3 x 42 x 5 cm (frame / Rahmen) Catalogue raisonné 59 Courtesy: Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna / Wien & Private Collection / Privatsammlung, Belmont Music Publishers © Belmont Music Publishers / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016.
Erkan Özgen 1
Erkan Özgen 1
Erkan Özgen Wonderland, 2016 Video, 4 min © Courtesy of the artist
sarkis 7
sarkis 7
Sarkis Icon 18, December 26, 1993 / Ikone 18, 26. Dezember 1993 Watercolor, gilded papier-mâché frame (18th century) / Aquarell, Rahmen aus vergoldetem Papiermaché (18. Jahrhundert) 38 x 40 x 5 cm Dated and signed on reverse side / datiert und signiert auf der Rückseite ID26834 © The artist
sarkis 6
sarkis 6
Sarkis Icon 162, January 13, 2004 / Ikone 162, 13. Januar 2004 Chinese ink on paper, wrought-iron frame, Marocco (20th century) / Tusche auf Papier, Eisenrahmen, Marokko (20. Jahrhundert) 24,5 x 30 cm Dated and signed on reverse side / datiert und signiert auf der Rückseite ID26913 © The artist
sarkis 5
sarkis 5
Sarkis Icon 21, 1994 Watercolor, collage, frame made of polychromed metal, on wood, India (20th century) / Aquarell und Collage, farbig gefasster Metallrahmen, auf Holz, Indien (20. Jahrhundert) 25,5 x 30 cm Dated and signed on reverse side / datiert und signiert auf der Rückseite © The artist
sarkis
sarkis
Sarkis Icon 184, 2005 Watercolour on a mirror, gilded wooden frame, France (1930 – 40) / Aquarell auf Spiegel, vergoldeter Holzrahmen, Frankreich (1930 – 1940) 17,5 x 15 cm Dated and signed on reverse side / datiert und signiert auf der Rückseite ID26933 © The artist
sarkis 3
sarkis 3
Sarkis Icon 98, May 01, 2000 Watercolor, photograph by Robert Kramer, paraffin on glass, wooden frame, Alsace (late 19th century) /Aquarell, Fotografie von Robert Kramer, Paraffin auf Glas, Holzrahmen, Elsass (spätes 19. Jahrhundert) 26,4 x 31,4 cm Dated and signed on reverse side / datiert und signiert auf der Rückseite ID26893 © The artist
sarkis 2
sarkis 2
Sarkis Icon 37, June 12, 1996 / Ikone 37, 12. Juni 1996 Wooden frame, Alsace (around 1900) / Aquarell, Holzrahmen, Elsass (um 1900) 24 x 28 cm, framed Dated and signed on reverse side / datiert und signiert auf der Rückseite ID26851 © The artist
sarkis 1
sarkis 1
Sarkis Icon 12, November 02, 1992 (Munch) / Ikone 12, 02. November 1992 (Munch) Watercolour on paper, Art Nouveau frame (early 20th century) / Aquarell auf Papier, Jugendstil-Holzrahmen (frühes 20. Jahrhundert) 31,5 x 39 cm ID31391 © The artist
mehmet erdener revolution
mehmet erdener revolution
Memed Erdener (a.k.a. Extramücadele) Revolution, 2014 Bayonet, crochet blanket / Bajonett, Häkeldecke 60 x 53 x 19 cm © The artist
Memed Erdener (a.k.a. Extramücadele), 2015
Memed Erdener (a.k.a. Extramücadele), 2015
Memed Erdener (a.k.a. Extramücadele) The Thing That Does Not Love Itself, 2014 Rake, automotive paint and annealed wire / Harke, Autolack und ausgeglühter Draht 22 x 32 x 74 cm © The artist
EşrefYıldırımPursuit
EşrefYıldırımPursuit
Eşref Yıldırım Pursuit, 2014 Embroidery / Stickerei Set of / von 34 © The artist
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 195 cm x 97 cm, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 195 cm x 97 cm, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 195 cm x 97 cm, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 195 cm x 97 cm, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 2003-2016
Yves Berger, Missing, 195 cm x 97 cm, 2003-2016

The Red Gaze
Tbilisi Future Edition
Dedicated to the Contemporary Art Gallery / Georgian National Museum

“As long as wars are still being waged in the name of religion, artists cannot keep quiet about it.”

ŞÜKRAN MORAL

The Red Gaze presents a constellation of objects in paintings, drawings, mural poems, sculptures, and video on the theme of ‘the witness,’ more specifically, the ‘artist as eye-witness’ in times of duress and war.

The exhibition combines two works of classical modernity – the last self-portrait of the composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1944 and a poem by Pablo Picasso written written in 1935 – with a 17th century baroque sculpture of an accidentally damaged Cristo vivo, and works of artists from Diyarbakır, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, and Tbilisi.

Schoenberg’s self-portrait of 1944 reflects the disasters of his and our time. The rarely performed poem by Pablo Picasso “The Rats They May Feast Where They Want is presented alongside six IKONES of Sarkis, presented on wooden lecterns, a video by the Kurdish artist Erkan Özgen, surrealist sculpures by the Istanbul artist Memed Erdener, and a large polyptych by Yves Berger entitled “Missing” (world premiere). The work of Tbilisi artist Iliko Zautashvili is presented next to mural poetry by Istanbul artists Şükran Moral and Erdem Gündüz.

“I am just one protest. I am just one artist. I am nothing. My idea is free. My heart is free. My spirit is free.” – These are the words of duran adam, the ‘standing man’ of Gezi, Erdem Gündüz, whose stand-still on Taksim Square during Gezi protests drew thousands into a collective performance of public emulation. The Red Gaze associates the bodily gesture of the standing man with the work of the Iliko Zautashvili and a 18th Orthodox Icon evoking the martyr in the original sense: the witness, more specifically, ‘the artist as witness’ in times of war.

The Red Gaze Tbilisi Future Edition in its present form consists of a catalog in English and Georgian, edited by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh together with Julia Gyemant, with texts by Charles Merewether, Lotte Laub, Erkan Özgen, Sarkis, Uwe Fleckner, Naz Cuguoğlu, and A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh.

This imaginary exhibition came about in collaboration with the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Belmont Music Publishers, and Taswir projects. With the gracious support of Zilberman Gallery Istanbul/Berlin and Gallery Nathalie Obadia Paris.