We Awoke As You Crouched On The Ground On All Three Feet, 2024.
250cm x 300cm x 320cm
Wood, reclaimed mild steel and rebar, farm machinery paint, varnish, ball bearing.
Studio Barbare, Tekirdağ, Türkiye.
Residency and exhibition 2024.
250cm x 300cm x 320cm
Wood, reclaimed mild steel and rebar, farm machinery paint, varnish, ball bearing.
Studio Barbare, Tekirdağ, Türkiye.
Residency and exhibition 2024.
“Curated by T. Melis Golar, Barbare Studio’s first exhibition, “Sense of Earth”, opens on September 14 at Barbare Vineyards in Tekirdağ. The exhibition brings together 16 local and international artists, some with extensive experience and others showing their work for the first time, and underlines the significance of collective production.
The exhibition is named after the French word “terroir,” which refers to the combination of factors such as soil, climate, and environment that give the wine its unique character; in other words, the taste comes from all of these elements sensed by the earth. The “Sense of Earth” exhibition calls for a univocal structure that harmoniously integrates with Barbare’s geography, climate, ecological diversity, borders, and history. It aims to gather information from nature, create a regulating force, cultivate, and observe.
[Milo Kester] draws inspiration from the irregularity of the demarcated fields surrounding Barbare Vineyards that resemble a patchwork pattern and merges this with the collage sensibility he embraces in his practice. He establishes both direct and indirect relationships with the land. By contemplating the history of the landscape and its current use, he offers a perspective on what it might become in the future. He expresses these ideas through various materials, forms, textures, and colors used in his sculptures. The artist is also intrigued by the sculptural quality of certain agricultural tools he observed around the vineyard. By adapting to the limits imposed by local materials, he accentuates their inherent textures. In his creations, the artist adds temporality to his sculptures by burning, carving, or sanding down to reveal shiny surfaces. Forms that appear fossilized when combined with bright, youthful surfaces, create a hybrid visuality. These forms carry possibilities of being biological, technological, or perhaps neither.”
- Melis Golar
“During August 2024 I took part in the inaugural residency at Studio Barbare at Barabre Vineyards in Tekirdağ, Türkiye. I spent the time immersed in the landscape, caught between the Sea of Marmara and the arable land of Thrace. Imagining a site of artefacts that referenced the archaeology of the area and at the same time implying instruments from a possible future or forgotten past, while being in conversation with the land and its current use. A three footed beast striding through space and time.
I have also been thinking a lot about the form and composition of sculpture in regard to painting and drawing recently. Where a sculpture transforms as you move around it, with planes appearing and disappearing, apertures opening to focus attention inwardly or outward and moments of density dissipating into space. Teetering on the brink of collapse.”
- Milo Kester
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The exhibition is named after the French word “terroir,” which refers to the combination of factors such as soil, climate, and environment that give the wine its unique character; in other words, the taste comes from all of these elements sensed by the earth. The “Sense of Earth” exhibition calls for a univocal structure that harmoniously integrates with Barbare’s geography, climate, ecological diversity, borders, and history. It aims to gather information from nature, create a regulating force, cultivate, and observe.
[Milo Kester] draws inspiration from the irregularity of the demarcated fields surrounding Barbare Vineyards that resemble a patchwork pattern and merges this with the collage sensibility he embraces in his practice. He establishes both direct and indirect relationships with the land. By contemplating the history of the landscape and its current use, he offers a perspective on what it might become in the future. He expresses these ideas through various materials, forms, textures, and colors used in his sculptures. The artist is also intrigued by the sculptural quality of certain agricultural tools he observed around the vineyard. By adapting to the limits imposed by local materials, he accentuates their inherent textures. In his creations, the artist adds temporality to his sculptures by burning, carving, or sanding down to reveal shiny surfaces. Forms that appear fossilized when combined with bright, youthful surfaces, create a hybrid visuality. These forms carry possibilities of being biological, technological, or perhaps neither.”
- Melis Golar
“During August 2024 I took part in the inaugural residency at Studio Barbare at Barabre Vineyards in Tekirdağ, Türkiye. I spent the time immersed in the landscape, caught between the Sea of Marmara and the arable land of Thrace. Imagining a site of artefacts that referenced the archaeology of the area and at the same time implying instruments from a possible future or forgotten past, while being in conversation with the land and its current use. A three footed beast striding through space and time.
I have also been thinking a lot about the form and composition of sculpture in regard to painting and drawing recently. Where a sculpture transforms as you move around it, with planes appearing and disappearing, apertures opening to focus attention inwardly or outward and moments of density dissipating into space. Teetering on the brink of collapse.”
- Milo Kester
