Serdar Acar

Serdar Acar creates enigmatic landscape paintings, often occupied by a solitary figure, symbolising the feelings of loss, anxiety and desire he experienced during pandemic isolation. The landscapes, characterised by their great plains and vast openness, are rendered in subdued, pastel colours. The artist calls the scenes “symbols of the uncanny”, referencing their dreamlike, almost futuristic and otherworldly nature. The figures often stand at the foothills of Acar’s pink and blue mountains or at the edge of a lake, as if on the precipice of a dream or the border that separates fiction and reality. Apart from these figures, the only other living organisms in Acar’s mise-en-scène are trees. In ‘Equivalent’, one of the artist’s series of works, he uses the cypress tree – in some cultures, the representation of life and strength, and in others, an image of death – to display the paradox of human existence; living life in the persistent shadow of death. ...

Pi Artworks is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in London and Istanbul. Its mission is to offer a diverse and active programme that initiates social change. Pi Artworks was founded in Istanbul in 1998. By moving to London in 2013, Pi Artworks wanted to make connections, explore “shared histories”, and bridge artists from different geographies. Pi Artworks London is located in Fitzrovia in the heart of London's West End. Pi Artworks Istanbul gallery relocated to PIyalepasa in close proximity to Arter Museum, with a 350 sq mt. space designed by Polat Group. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the aim of allowing their work to grow in terms of new projects and exhibitions. Pi Artworks now represents a total of eighteen international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. The gallery is also a member of London Collective, and IGA (International Galleries Alliance). ...