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IN DIALOGUE

A selection of Stijn Ank’s plaster sculptures is currently on view in Istanbul, presented by Öktem Aykut as part of the Clubhouse Hosts Series. Installed outdoors, the works continue to transform through their contact with the open air.

The exhibition brings together Ank’s sculptures with Aret Gıcır’s Before Leaving, a series of paintings made between 2023 and 2026. The works of both artists are being presented together for the first time in this setting.

Öktem Aykut @oktemaykut
Clubhouse Hosts Series

August 7 – October 4, 2026
Clubhouse Bebek, Istanbul
Open daily, 10:00–22:00

Curator: Nazlı Yayla
Photo: Lara Özdoğan

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Words from Jens Asthoff on the new fresco series.

Fresco painting, which flourished in the fourteenth century - “al fresco” literally means “upon the fresh (plaster) - is a wall-painting technique in which
pigment dissolved in water is applied to fresh lime plaster. Chemical processes permanently fix particles in the plaster. A similar amalgamation of pigment and plaster also defines Ank’s work.

Ank his works strike a fine balance between painting and sculpture. His output is informed by questions such as: How much or how little volume can a sculpture occupy before it ceases to be spatial? To what extent can sculpture be pure surface, and surface itself give rise to space? Where does surface end and space begin?

The technique makes the visual outcome difficult to predict. Ank builds casting molds into which he fills the void with layers of liquid pigmented plaster. His focus is less on compositional aspects than on what he describes as an “inner space” that resonates with the beholder’s interaction with the work.

- Jens Asthoff for Artforum Magazine

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Untitled, 2020
Bronze, white patina · Ed. 2/3
184 × 40 × 39 cm
72 ⁷/₁₆ × 15 ¾ × 15 ²³/₆₄ in

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