Haluk Akakce

Condition: This work is in good condition. There is minor paint loss on one of the corners due to wear. Colour: The catalogue illustration is accurate; however, the overall tonality tends towards a brighter, lighter yellow.
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Haluk Akakçe is one of the leading Turkish contemporary artists known best for his innovative and unconventional works of art, spanning a variety of mediums. 

In Untitled, Akakçe continues to explore the notion of constant transformation and a sense of uncertainty, displaying this in his three-dimensional relief work. As with the abstracted world visualised in his painting and video work, here the uneven wooden surface is entirely covered in mirrors, causing the viewer to have a distorted view and to experience an endlessly different reflection at every angle. The substantial sizes of these sculptures allow the viewer to completely immerse themselves into Akakçe's world of proportion, perspective and light and by parting, repeating and using reflective surfaces, he has defied the way in which the spectator would usually perceive objects and situate themselves in relation to them. Ultimately, Akakçe's goal is to cause the observer to re-evaluate the concepts of relativity and definition.