Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
2021Battle
Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
In ‘Battle’ (2020), Shodo-Budo and abstract expressionism; eastern and western sensibilities of calligraphy and painting; put to a Zen like dynamic visual dialogue to evoke a feeling of an inner battle. ‘Battle’ also in a sense a salute to Stan Brakhage’s final film (Chinese Series), made during his own battle with cancer, by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the emulsion. ‘Battle’ is about the daily struggle of being in the world. It is dedicated to all the silent and not so silent battles we fought.
Battle
Renk Üzerine
Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Rumi, poet, scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic of the 13th century, in his famous Masnavi (Book I), asked a profound question: “As all colors emerged from the void of lack of color, how can color fight with lack of color? ” Da Cor (2019) is the story of light, after being born through the dark void that precedes the universe, it disperses in red, green and blue and from there to all the various colors of the visible spectrum, they emerge and flow into each other, creating all possible forms of tones. After the useful life of the light, it returns to the primordial state of the dark void of "Chaos".
On Color
