Berlin gallery hosts Ahmet Güneştekin's 'Sun Road'

Galerie Michael Schultz in Berlin is hosting an exhibition by Turkish artist Ahmet Güneştekin.

Titled "Sun Road," the exhibition manifests Güneştekin's talent in a variety of mediums, from optic and dimensional paintings and patchwork quilts to his most recent forays in sculpture. It shows the way he imagines ancient elements of mythologies and religions in an acutely intricate and bright context. 

Combining mixed media items like concave mirrors and metal cages with optical illusions and color gradients, Güneştekin forges a unique space steeped in mythologies that have prevailed for centuries. 

His uses of symbolism influenced by ancient mythologies and religions and his treatment of iconography of objects make his art simultaneously ancient and modern. From his interventions into patchwork quilts to his hybrid use of metal and mirrors in wall reliefs and optic paintings, "Sun Road" focuses on different chapters of his artistic career. 

The curator of the exhibition, Christoph Tannert, says Güneştekin is "able to enclose energy into his art." 
"This is equally effective in the multiplicity of material executions. It shows itself before it is intelligibly comprehended. Its direction of action is consciously designed, although Güneştekin shows no inclination to address clear content to the audience. Instead, he seems to be interested in what is left unsaid. The basis for this is his particularly pictorial-artistic statement, with which he conveys the peculiarities as well as myths and modernity of his culture," Tannert said.

Güneştekin's sense of light and color radiates throughout his objects and it is probably what strikes the eye at first, sometimes making it challenging for the uninitiated to move beyond this...