Ortak Zemin: Toprak / Common Ground: Earth

Common Ground: Earth is the first exhibition of the series entitled Common Ground: Earth, Water, Air - Selections Form Borusan Contemporary Collection that will be on view throughout 2014-15. This series includes three inter-related exhibitions which aim to offer a thematic look into Borusan Contemporary Collection. It brings together works from the collection that are selected on the basis of a shared concern with the concepts of the three "commons" including earth, water and air. Earth, water and air, sources belonging to everybody and our joint property, are issues whose management bears importance for our life on Earth insofar as equality and sustainability are concerned. The exhibitions focus on the meaning of this for a corporate collection that consists of works that refer to thees three concepts in terms of either form or content. Common Ground: Earth, the first of these exhibitions, brings together works from the collection that, in various ways, refer to Earth as aesthetic medium, conceptual process and reality upon which we live. It birgns together works by Sarkis, Ayşe Erkmen, keith Sonnier, Markus Linnenbrink, Liam Gillick, Ola Kolehmainen, François Morellet, Hans Kotter, Necdet Kalay, Brigitte Kowanz, Paul Schwer, Alejandro Almanza, Doug Aitken, Jim Dine, Peter Coffin, Sung Hyun Lee and Jum Campbell among others, and innvite the audience to set on an ecological, spiritual and symbolic journey on Earth at the premises of Borusan Contemporary.

Ortak Zemin: Toprak, Su Hava başlığını taşıyan ve 2014-2015 yılları boyunca sürecek olan bu sergi dizisinin ilkiOrtak Zemin: Toprakbaşlığını taşıyor. Borusan Contemporary Sanat Koleksiyonu'na tematik bir bakış sunmayı amaçlayan ve birbirleriyle ilişkili üç sergiden oluşan bu dizi, koleksiyonda yer alan eserleri toprak, su ve hava ?müşterek" kavramları ile olan ilişkileri üzerinden seçerek bir araya getiriyor.

Ortak Zemin: Toprak, koleksiyon bünyesinde yer alan ve estetik bir ortam, kavramsal süreç ve üzerinde yaşadığımız gerçeklik olarak toprakla türlü şekillerle bağlantılı eserleri bir araya getiriyor. Aralarında Sarkis, Ayşe Erkmen, Keith Sonnier, Markus Linnenbrink, Liam Gillick, Ola Kolehmainen, François Morellet, Hans Kotter, Necdet Kalay, Brigitte Kowanz, Paul Schwer, Alejandro Almanza, Doug Aitken, Jim Dine, Peter Coffin, Sung Hyun Lee ve Jim Campbell'in de bulunduğu sanatçılara ait eserler, izleyiciyi, Borusan Contemporary mekanlarında toprak üzerinde ekolojik, spiritüel ve sembolik bir yolculuğa davet ediyor.