What to read after Nuri Kuzucan: Passage?

Published in the context of Nuri Kuzucan’s solo exhibition Passage, the eponymous book opens with an extensive conversation between the curator of the exhibition, Nilüfer Şaşmazer, and the artist. Alongside the conversation which offers various reflections on Kuzucan’s life and his artistic inclinations that have evolved over time, the publication compiles newly-commissioned essays authored by Duygu Demir, Tarkan Okçuoğlu, Asuman Suner and Hakan Tüzün Şengün, providing new perspectives across the artist’s oeuvre. Designed by Ayşe Bozkurt, the publication also features photographs taken by Hadiye Cangökçe and flufoto (Barış Aras & Elif Çakırlar). 

Nuri Kuzucan’s solo exhibition Passage brings together a selection of the artist’s earlier works and new productions within a site-specific architectural setting. The exhibition centres on both cognitive and perceptual fluidity and transitivity by featuring works that revolve around dualities such as chaos/order, light/shadow, emptiness/fullness, surface/depth, and interior/exterior. Taking place at Arter’s 1st-floor gallery between 1 June–31 December 2023, Passage creates associations between the transitional space the exhibition resides in and the pictorial space through the architectural, literary, and metaphorical connotations of the word ‘passage’.