Taner Ceylan
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Taner Ceylan is a Turkish painter born in 1967 in Germany but now living and working in Istanbul. Above is a self-portrait Adam Entering Me (2005).
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We've previously seen this painting Ball (2001) of two guys balling in a ballroom while being serenaded by a string trio.
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Much of Taner's work is photo-realistic. Though it's hard to believe, his website says that the picture above, Together (2007), is not a photo. It's oil on canvas.
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Taner got into trouble for a 2011 series called Lost Paintings depicting Turkey's past as the Ottoman Empire. The painting above is called 1640. It depicts an Ottoman man being attended by his slave.
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But what really caused a furor was the painting above, called 1879. It shows an Ottoman noblewoman in front of Courbet's painting L'Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), which depicts a naked woman's vagina, which in a sense is the origin of us all.
Taner received death threats. "How can you paint an Ottoman woman in front of a vagina? We will kill you!" He was forced to resign his position at Istanbul's Yeditepe University, and he lived with two policemen outside his door and a bodyguard for four months.
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Ironically, his more homoerotic art did not seem to arouse the same indignation. Above is Good Morning Mr Courbet (2005).
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This is Figure With Horse (1999).
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Galaxy (2007).
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And there are more self-portraits. This is Me Swimming In Çirali (2004).
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We end with Taner and Taner (2003), which transforms the old rebuke "go fuck yourself" into a fantasy.
To see more of Taner Ceylan's work, go to his website tanerceylan.com.
6 comments:
His works verge on the weird, but I like the explicitness, and the photorreaslistic look.
It is interesting that Tanner placed the Origin of the World in front of an Ottoman woman. The original owner was Halil Şerif Pasha (Khalil Bey), an Ottoman diplomat, who commissioned the work shortly after he moved to Paris, to add to his personal collection of erotic pictures, which already included The Turkish Bath by Ingres and another painting by Courbet, The Sleepers.
The one with the two men, one on the dock, the other in the lake, is very remarkable!
his IG: https://www.secure.instagram.com/tanerceylanstudio/
his website: http://tanerceylan.com/
@Xersex - The 2nd website link's domain seems to be up for sale. Once it came up as such. Once it redirected to a "megadating" website which seemed dangerous.
@2ndWave - are you sure you spelled the website correctly? When I access it, which is the same as the link at the end of my post, it goes to Taner Ceylan's site, not some site up for sale.
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