2024 14-18 May, Solo Exhibition, Women's Art Association of Canada Dignam Gallery

Place: 23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto

Date: May 14th - 18th 2024

2023 1-31 August, Solo Exhibition, "Imagination 1",Toronto Library-Oakwood Art Center, Toronto

Place: 341 Oakwood Avenue Toronto, ON

Date: August 1st - 31st 2023

Solo exhibition titled "Silence" will be open to visitors at Maltepe Türkan Saylan Cultural Center from 18th to 30th September 2017.

Place: Türkan Saylan Cultural Center, Maltepe-İstanbul

Date: 18th September - 30th September 2017



Güler Çağlar's "Fragmentation" at Bahariye Art Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

Bahariye Art Gallery hosts artist Güler Çağlar's exhibition titled "Fragmentation" from 11th to 23rd May.

The artist speaks about her works as follows:

"Something has been torn from me, something that holds everything." Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

The contemporary world is a globalized world, which implies that everything needs to be perceived and understood from a global perspective. The greatest paradox is that in this era, nothing can be a part of a universal and integral structure anymore. In our age, from science to art, from matter to meaning, from morality to philosophy, from individuals to societies, nothing remains a whole within itself. The concept of unity is nothing more than a dry illusion.

As an artist of the 21st century, this is the single and unique focus of my art. Fragmentation is the erosion of relationships, the disappearance of boundaries. I experience this great rupture in my own life as well as in society and cultural life. What I see in the shattered mirror of my consciousness is transformed into works woven with fragmented images in my artwork.

Is this a quest? No. It is an undeniable fact. Everything and everyone are in exile at home, within, and in the world – "placeless, homeless."

Güler Çağlar

Eighth International 360 Degrees of Love Festival at Uniq Gallery, Maslak

Place: Uniq Gallery, Maslak

Date: 13th February - 13th March 2016



Dar Cephe Art Gallery, Year-end Exhibition, Kadıköy

Place: Dar Cephe Art Gallery, Kadıköy

Date: 21st - 31st December 2016



November 2014 Painters' Association of Marine and Fish, Beyoğlu-Istanbul


Place: Beyoğlu-Istanbul

Date: November 2014



Painters' Association of Marine and Fish, 16th - 27th June 2012, Beyoğlu-Istanbul

Reflections of Mesopotamia

 

 

 

 

Güler Çağlar's "Reflections from Mesopotamia" meets with art lovers at Pirosmani Art Gallery from 11th to 21st April 2012.

The night is also a sun, says a thinker. If we change the saying a bit, we can say the past is also the present. If we go a bit further, the past, the present, and the future are the same thing. We can call it a "single time." The artist, in this exhibition, bases her paintings on this consubstantiality and correspondence. In the exhibition, time, space, harmony, and the figure are symbolized and merged through improvisation and associations.

In these canvases, there are no perspectives. There are transitions, created by extraordinary courage, between plots. These transitions, just like a rainbow, links the richness in the painting to one another. These paintings are integrated with the most fertile civilizations of history, Mesopotamian civilizations.

Güler used seal stamps, frescoes, altars, birds, hybrid creatures, figures of God, griffins, winged disks, mythological, and astrological symbols and added the wealth of three-dimensionality to her pictures. While these materials and figures were getting used, the creative mind risked itself with extraordinary courage and created a connotation-filled painting atmosphere.

When looked through this frame, Güler has the eyes and hands of a Babylonian Seal Master. These paintings and the seals are not two separate things but two faces of one thing. When thought like this, these paintings sing the song of eternity behind the holographic outlines. When you can add yourself to the empathy of this, an artistic integrity can be created with a symphony of endless synchronicities on a kaleidoscope screen. These paintings can tear apart the curtains of the present and create a new universe of meaning with all the horizons of existence as its ornaments.

 

Place: PİROSMANİ ART GALLERY

Exhibition Duration: From 11th to 21st April 2012

Address: Istiklal ave. Turnacibasi st. 11/A Beyoğlu, Istanbul 34433 ISTANBUL