GULAY ALPAY’S EXHIBITION
NY, BROADWAY GALLERY
11 - 28 December 2005
473 Broadway, 7th Floor •
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Gülay Alpay’s Exhibition at NY Broadway Gallery between 03-28 December will be a charity exhibition to support the “Whale and Dolphin Action League”. 50 % of the sales-revenue will be donated to the league and during the exhibition-period a seminar with the theme “Protecting the whales in their own habitats” will be held by the league’s director Taffy Williams.
Ten years ago I graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting (Master degree), workshop of Professor Özdemir Altan.You may check my CV and works on my website, at http://www.gulayalpay.com
Recently, I have been trying to present my works, especially my works from 2003 and 2004, densely in North America, Montreal and Istanbul and in important art centres of the world,. Through the exhibitions of “Tile Project”, which is spred all over the world, my works entered in various museums, art galleries and art centres in over 50 countries. Even in some of these countries, my works are installed in public places such cafes, streets, parks etc.
We are negotiating with NY Turkish Consulate General Office of the Culture & Information Attache, World Art Media Group, Curator Luca Curci, NY Art Magazine, New York Whale and Dolphin Action League, NY The Marmara Manhattan, Istanbul Promedia PR Company. All of these Institutions will come together and I hope that everything will happen without any deficiency. After this exhibition, we will carry on our art attacks. At the moment, I am getting many offers and proposals from USA...
Why Whale-sounds ?
Gülay Alpay’s Exhibition at NY Broadway Gallery will be a charity exhibition to support the “Whale and Dolphin Action League”. 50 % of the sales-revenue will be donated to the league and during the exhibition-period a seminar with the theme “Protecting the whales in their own habitats” will be held by the league’s director Taffy Williams. www.ny4whales.org
There are many very serious problems affecting whales and dolphins in today’s world. Speaking of sound, noise-pollution in the oceans is literally killing them. Sonar blasts up to 265 decibels, which travels about 350,000 sq. miles at a time before decreasing to safe levels. Ships with engines as large as a house, oil and gas exploration using air guns are also blasting this kind of sound energy into the water. In the oceans, there are 150 dead zones (with no life at all) and climate change is killing the food chain of the species, which is causing a drop of more than 50% in marine biota (organisms including plankton). There is 90% decilne in many species, and many whale species are inching their way to extinction as I write this. Things are really grim out there. I do not exaggerate. This is why I paint for whales now, I feel their sounds are calling the people all around the world for help... Just they sound call happy singing...
“Many composers like Beethoven and Mozart were effected by birds in some of their works” say otimologists and bio-mucigialists together. If the great composers could have heared whale sounds in their times, as easily as like they listened the birds, I strongly believe that, they could have reflected those sounds to their works as well.
Humpact whales for instance, too, are inveterate composers. The most musicianlike of the whales, male humpbacks sing while cruising around their summer breeding grounds or migrating. The loud, wavering songs string together several repeated phrases or themes, and one whale’s session of song after song can stretch more than 24 hours. Whatever the process, humpbacks sing in patterns similar to human musical traditions. Rhythms, phrases that last just a few seconds, song lengths ranging between those of human ballads and symphonic movements, and percussive elements as an occasional emphasis in longer strains of pure tones. Even though a whale can woo-oo over at least seven octaves and it combines notes that have wavelength relationships familiar to people’s ears. Humpbacks also use rhymes. When someone speaks in a language you don’t understand, you still know when they are reciting poetry. Among whales, a particular sound repeats at relatively regular intervals...
Whales are singing in forms of sonatas (musical form having 3 sections – exposition, development and recapitulation)
The concept of the exhibition: “visual reflections of whale sound’s communication”...
I am also working on Whale sounds. I discharge myself by listening their sounds, i.e. by using plastic elements and pictorial language. In a way, I transfer the voice language into the visual language. I try to catch the rhythms in small and great forms and dimensions on the canvas, i.e, it may be said that the rhythms in their sounds come into vision. You will have whale sounds in the exhibition atmosphere, too. Through a sonogram, we can visually watch the frequencies and wave-lenghts of Whale-sounds. Like a sonogram, I also visualize the frequencies of their sounds, where I, as an artist, process them in the depth of my soul and then in my paintings I put them into visual forms by coding them with plastic elements and symbols...
It will be an exhibition reflecting harmonies of underwater and whale sounds. Blue and all colours will be dominant in the exhibition. I aim to reach their frequency with my art... I feel them from the depths of my soul... They give me very big power and motivation in order to create my art...
By coding and transforming whale-sounds into visual language, I use canvases in different forms and dimensions, where I also experiment some mechanical installations...
I use different materials. I try to build some mechanisms, which are moving simultaneously with sounds. I am highly interested in bio-musics and bio-acustics. I believe, that they have a relaxing and mind-opening effect...
You can see my previous artworks from my whale series at my website, http://www.gulayalpay.com at section of “whale series”...
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