Turkish artist Halil Altındere’s solo exhibition Usulüne Uygun opens at PİLOT Galeri in Istanbul on November 11 and continues through December 31. Sculpture, video, photography, painting, carpets and miniatures bring different periods of his work into one presentation. The selection follows his longstanding attention to power, pressure and resistance through popular culture and everyday objects.
Turkish artist Halil Altındere’s solo exhibition Usulüne Uygun opens at PİLOT Galeri, an art gallery in Istanbul, on November 11 and continues until December 31. The presentation draws on different periods of his practice. Sculpture, video, photography, painting, carpets and miniatures are brought together in the same exhibition.[1], [2]
Power, pressure and resistance are recurring subjects in Altındere’s work. His attention ranges across subcultures, gender roles, popular culture and everyday life, including struggles over authority inside and outside the art world. Games, toys and monuments appear alongside heroes, documents and objects. Figures pushed outside accepted social categories are part of this vocabulary. The title Usulüne Uygun invokes rules and conventions alongside the artist’s interest in their inconsistencies.[1]
Altındere has shown work in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including MoMA, Centre Pompidou, MAXXI and the MAK Museum. His exhibition history also includes CA2M in Madrid and Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, with works acquired by several of these institutions. He has participated in Documenta and Manifesta and in the biennials of Venice, São Paulo, Berlin, Istanbul, Sharjah and Gwangju.[1]
