Adrian Sutton is delighted to present an exceptional major photographic based work by Nasan Tur, entitled Diamond 1.20ct. The works of the Berlin based multi-disciplinary artist covers photography, sculpture, installations, and video.
Tur was born in 1974 into a Turkish family who had moved to Germany in the 1960's under the Gasterbeiterprogramm (guest worker program). His work as an artist covers and reflects social structures, political doctrines, power, fragility, capitalism, Marxism, dissent, repression, political and social conflict, and the financial structures at the core of our societies. Tur is known for investigating symbols of power, the work being exhibited in this single work presentation reflects the greatest exponent of wealth, desire and power known to mankind, Diamonds.
In this photograph that has been edited and printed onto a fine art cotton paper, the image represents a blown-up photograph of a real precious diamond that has been smashed by the artist using extreme violence. Diamonds are the hardest natural material that exist in the world, here a diamond has been crushed and smashed via human intervention into thousands of particles.
As Tur states "it has the most resistance than any other material that we know." The artist is reflecting on economic systems, perceived stability, and power, but also of fragility, everything can change in a heartbeat. A sign of our times that we as human beings are living in. The artist is using the smashed diamond also as a metaphor, it shows a new type of universe that can come about by destruction. There is the possibility to see past the immediate, perhaps a new path towards social, financial, and political enlightenment. .
Nasan is currently preparing for a solo exhibition in 2023 at the Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art Berlin and towards participation at the forthcoming Riga Biennial.
Nasan Tur has also participated in major exhibitions including documenta 14 (2017); 10. Istanbul Biennial (2007); 6. Taipei Biennale (2008); The artist's work has also been featured in significant group exhibitions such as DO DISTURB! Palais de Tokyo (2015); Stand Up! Centre Pompidou Paris (2015); Power to the people Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2018); Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Maxxi Museum Rome. In 2012 he was awarded the Will Grohmann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin and 2014 the Villa Massimo Prize of the Deutsche Akademie Rom.
Public/Private Collections (selection) Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, DE, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE, Lentos Museum, Linz, AT, Kunsthalle Mannheim, DE, Joanneum Museum, Graz, AT, Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE, Pori Art Museum, Pori, FI, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, DE, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, DE, Botkyrka Konsthall , Tumba, SE, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, DE, Borusan Museum, Istanbul, TR, ARTER Museum, Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, TR, ifa Collection Stuttgart, DE, n.b.k. Artothek Collection, Berlin, DE, n.b.k. Video-Forum Collection, Berlin, DE, Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin Collection, DE, Kunst Haus Wien, AT, René Block Collection, Berlin, DE, Reydan Weiss Collection, DE, Genny and Selmo Nissenbaum Collection, Rio de Janeiro, BR, Wellington Management Collection, Boston, US, Soho House Art Collection, London, GB, Pio Monte della Misericordia Collection, Naples, IT.
Diamond 1.20ct, 2017
Pigmented fine art inkjet print on Baryt fine art paper mounted on Diabond
150 x 225 cm (59 x 88 ins)
