VRV Gallery Interview / Paintings From Another World..
What are the “postkaraoke” and “bomatik” concepts?
I first created the “postkaraoke” concept. Its explanation is simple and you can find the meaning in its name. But everybody around me began to ask me about that “postkaraoke” concept and I decided not to explain it. I wanted people to discover it. With “bomatik”, same thing… Of course they have an explanation and they are the concepts about the new way of life that we live in. This is all I can tell. No more! It is like a game.
As an artist, how do you contrast painting and sculpture?
Firstly, I want to say that I don’t feel myself like an artist. I am a man who goes to his studio every day and kills his time playing with the things that he likes. That’s all. I don’t know and I can’t imagine how somebody can realize that he/she is an artist. I don’t think sculpture and the painting are different. They are the same thing. Maybe the way that you create artworks changes –not always- but finally they are the same. And I also think for video, installation, cinema…
"NEVER_INTIM" PAU ANDRES TEXT
Cuenta Orhan Pamuk en Estambul. Ciudad y recuerdos que nunca ha podido dejar la ciudad en la que nació. Otros, dice, como Conrad, Nabokov o Naipaul pudieron apartarse de ella e incluso escribir en otras lenguas, pero Pamuk sintió que no podría alejarse de aquellas calles que lo vieron nacer en la antigua Constantinopla. A Volkan Diyaroglu, que de bien joven salió de esa ciudad para recorrer medio mundo antes de llegar a Valencia, alguna vez le preguntaron sobre las influencias de su obra. ¿Quizá el action painting, tal vez el expresionismo abstracto? Y tras meditarlo un poco, respondía que puede que en la Mezquita Azul de Estambul residiera el embrión de su práctica pictórica.Read more