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'Tahtakale', four screen video projection, four channels sound, Haunch of Venison, London, 2004

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The most memorable viewing experience was Downward Straits, a video installation by Ergin Cavusoglu, shown during the Beck’s Features exhibition at the ICA. It involved close shots of oil tankers crossing the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul in the dead of the night. The sound involved wireless messages in between control towers. The piece documented a somewhat sinister activity with intense poetry and beauty. It evoked a multitude of emotions, more than you would get from a multi-million dollar film.

Kutlug Ataman, The Daily Telegraph (18 December 2004)

The rich and mesmerising visual style of Cavusoglu's video installations, such as Downward Straits, shown at this year's Becks' Futures, have attracted a lot of attention recently, probably because his work has an intensity that sets it apart from the dominant documentary style of video or photo-based art. Tahtakale is a four-screen installation that portrays a group of market traders going about their business in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar while, on another screen, labourers queue to receive goods. Poised In The Infinite Ocean was shot around the Bay of Biscay and shows a lighthouse and seaside chateau being buffeted by a storm. The videos are infused with mourning, as if the intimate human presence is an ephemeral thing within a larger structure, whether nature or capitalism, and Cavusoglu seems motivated by a desire to capture moments and places as they become obliterated by these implacable forces.

Craig Burnett, The Guide, The Guardian (23-29 October 2004)

Ergin Cavusoglu

1968 born in Tirgoviste, Bulgaria

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Education

1994-1995
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London

1990-1994
BA Painting, University of Marmara, Istanbul

1982-1987
Fine Art, I. Petrov College of Fine Art, Sofia

Grants

2004
Beck’s Futures awards shortlist, ICA, London

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Ergin Cavusoglu, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (forthcoming)

2007
Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich

2006
Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2004
Poised in the Infinite Ocean & Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London
Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

2002
Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul

2001
Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt

2000
Transit Space, London

1998
Duncan Cargill Gallery, London

1997
Haunting Presence, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London

1996
BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul

Group Exhibitions

2008
Night, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (forthcoming)

2007
Between Borders, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, MARCO Radikal Art, Istanbul

2006
British Art Show 6, Arnolfini, Bristol
British Art Show 6, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
Forest Man, The New Gallery, Jerusalem
Strangers With Angelic Faces, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
British Art Show 6, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

2005
British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (forthcoming)
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (forthcoming)
Medienturm, Graz
Akbank Culture and Arts Centre, Istanbul
On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam

2004
Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London
Whitstable Biennale, Kent
Britannia Works, organised by British Council, Athens
Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow
3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin

2003
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
La Biennale di Venezia 50th International Art Exhibition, The Turkish Pavilion

2002
Look Again, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
FAIR, Royal College of Art Galleries, London

2001
Look Away, Platform Gallery, ARCO Madrid

1999
Royal Engineers Museum Gallery, Gillingham

1998
Roundtrip, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul
Minus, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London

1996
Future Vision, The Photographers' Gallery, London

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Ergin Cavusoglu

Haunch of Venison
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England

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