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Yeliz Secerli
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Mana Contemporary • Creative Director
July 2013 - Present
Create, maintain and oversee the art-center’s brand and
identity across multiple platforms.
Oversee design and production of all marketing
materials; advertising, signage, print collateral, posters,
newsletters, invitations, brochures, books, web-sites and
the videos.
Work with curators; to design and prepare exhibitions
and oversee the budget.
Motivate and oversee a team of three designers,
production, editorial and video departments, as well
as freelancers.
Laird+Partners • Graphic Designer
March 2012 - July 2013
Worked alongside the Associate Creative Director
creating advertising campaigns for luxury fashion and
jewelry brands; CFDA, Coach, Jimmy Choo, J. Mendel, MZ
Wallace and David Yurman.
Created concepts, graphics and layouts for seasonal,
local and worldwide advertising campaigns and
commercials.
Brooklyn Magazine • Assistant Art Director
July 2011 - March 2012
Was responsible for design, layout, web-site and
production of the quarterly magazine.
Directed photo shoots for portraits and still-lifes while
maintaining production schedules and budget.
Assigned photography and illustrations to be
incorporated into each issue.
Created layout and design of the bi-weekly city magazine,
maintained its website and generated style and
typography guidelines.
Assigned photography and illustrations to be
incorporated into each issue.
Was responsible for design, layout and production of the
bimonthly magazine.
Worked alongside the Art Director to design feature
pages and various sections of the magazine.
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Created all in-house marketing, PR and promotional
materials; media-kits, advertorials, invitations, web
banners, and e-mail blasts.
Maintained and updated the web site of the magazine.
Tokion Magazine • Art Director
October 2008 - May 2009
Tokion Magazine • Graphic Designer
October 2007 - October 2008
FREELANCE
2011 - 2015
Designed and art-directed Osmos Magazine, a popular
photography magazine; logo and website for Brooklyn
Grain (brooklyngrain.com), a photo studio in Brooklyn;
branding for Phur, an artist collective in New Jersey;
self-promotion newspapers for Ebru Yildiz, a music
photographer; record covers, posters, flyers, tote-bags
and web-site for Ghastly City Sleep; an electronice music
band in Brooklyn.
EDUCATION
Werkplaats Typografie Summer School, Urbino, Italy
July 2015
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts • Graphic Design
May 2007
Baskent University, Faculty of Communications
Ankara, Turkey
Bachelor of Arts • Advertising & Public Relations
May 2002
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Adobe CC Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy Muse,
Microsoft Office, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Familiar with
After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro.
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The L Magazine • Senior Designer
July 2011 - March 2012
Surface Magazine • Graphic Designer
May 2009 - June 2010
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Hilgemann fill the sculpture garden for Panta Rhei. Rogue Arena features John Newsom’s
off-kilter, nature-centric paintings; photographer David Levinthal depicts WWII-era troops in
action using conventional toy soldiers in Hitler Moves East. In addition, the Middle East Center
for the Arts unveils The Diameter of the Bomb, a multi-disciplinary installation that explores
Ewerdt Hilgemann: Panta Rhei
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Making Art Dance: Backdrops and
David Salle, backdrop and costumes for Contempt, 1989
sets, costumes, backdrops, and sketches created for her productions and company,
Armitage Gone! Dance—a permanent resident at Mana—by visionaries including Jean Paul
Gaultier, Jeff Koons, Christian Lacroix, David Salle, Peter Speliopoulos, Philip Taaffe, and
others. By showcasing the extraordinary objects created for Armitage’s troupe, Making Art
Dance highlights a significant, unique art–dance partnership that has long played a critical
role in Armitage’s endurance and success.
After extensive experimentation with natural phenomena like gravity and explosives,
German artist Ewerdt Hilgemann began using a vacuum to remove the air from the inside
of hollow, welded-steel sculptures. The resulting mangled forms flaunt delicate folds
that contrast with the toughness of the steel, addressing both sides of a single extreme.
Hilgemann, who studied under ZERO artist Oskar Holweck, has perfected the technique to
create the imploded volumes in Panta Rhei, where a series of sculptures are installed outside
the Mana Glass Gallery and the building’s lobby.
John Newsom: Rogue Arena
John Newsom, Rogue Arena, 2014. Oil on canvas, 9 x 15 ft.
Each of American artist John Newsom’s paintings is a visual adventure, where super-sized
canvases display a dense depiction of life-like animals and vegetation that sit atop abstract,
impastoed backgrounds. His eerie environments put Mother Nature center stage, creating
an overpowering visual sensation that demands a response. Rogue Arena is a bold survey
of Newsom’s most recent work. The largest presentation of his oil paintings ever mounted,
the exhibition features fourteen characteristically large pieces, all completed within the last
decade. The nine-foot-tall Rogue Arena (2014), a new work Newsom created specially for the
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American choreographer Karole Armitage over the past 35 years. The exhibition features
Ewerdt Hilgemann, Threesome NY, 2014. Stainless steel, 20/18/16 x 3.9 x 3.9 ft.
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themes of war and hope. Galerie Ernst Hilger presents The World, featuring three artists who
use recycled or found objects as a medium to reflect their own personal universe. Spanning
photography, dance, painting, and sculpture, each presentation—together with open artist
studios and a continuing exhibition—reveals a significant facet of the contemporary art world.
S C U L P T U R E G A R D E N A N D LO B B Y
Mana Contemporary begins 2015 with a diverse roster of exhibitions. Jeffrey Deitch selected
artist-made sets and costumes from choreographer Karole Armitage’s productions for Making
Art Dance; a series of beautifully deformed welded-steel volumes by German sculptor Ewerdt
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Raúl Lozza/Argentina
Beatriz Olano/Colombia
César Paternosto/Argentin
Alejandro Puente/Argentina
Luis Roldán/Colombia
Osvaldo Romberg/Argentina
Diana de Solares/Guatemala
Joaquín TorresGarcía/Uruguay
Horacio Zabala/Argentina
Dirty geometry has existed throughout 20th-century
art, but not in a manifest way: it implies a subversion
of the laws of logical rigor, systemism, and Utopian
modernism that have pervaded geometry since Kandinsky. In his milestone book Concerning the Spiritual
in Art, Kandinsky argues against geometry as decoration; instead, he promotes geometrical painting as
a spiritual tool. The quest of the spiritual, of a balance
between the mind and intellectual order, constituted
the fundamental idea behind geometric art. Geometrical abstraction was used at different times, as seen
in Kandinsky’s compositions, in the rigorous nihilism
of Kazimir Malevich’s Black on Black, and in Max Bill’s
concrete iconography.
Through my concept of dirty geometry, I want to undermine the rigid, global imposition of geometry that
has dominated from the beginning of the 20th century.
Of course, other artists have already played with this
approach more or less consciously: Rothko when he
broke the grid, Frank Stella with his so-called Cone and
Pillars series from the eighties.
However, I came to realize that Latin American artists
offer the most prominent examples of dirty geometry.
First, this might be explained by the often rudimentary
absorption of the center by the periphery, as peripheral
access to major art trends has long been mediated by
art reproductions and perceived through local cultural
prisms. This is even truer in Latin America, where most
countries lacked a radical and contemporary art scene.
Second, in Latin America, one always finds forms of
political and existential resistance against the values of
neo-liberalism embodied by the center.
The exhibition Dirty Geometry will question different aspects of American, Russian, and European abstract art,
such as the imposition of polished finish on paintings,
the compositions and the purity of its lines, and classical applications of colors inherited from the Bauhaus
and Concrete Art, among others.
For instance, in the ’40s, the Latin American group
MADI challenged the format of the canvas and the
relation between two and three dimensions. In the
1960s, the Latin American group of Kinetic Art in Paris
challenged the static geometry produced by artists like
Victor Vasarely and Auguste Herbin, and introduced
movement, light, and shadow to abstract art.
I would therefore suggest that Latin America has proceeded to elaborate a kind of creolization of the dominant
geometric art. This is a recurrent phenomenon in other
fields of Latin American culture; we encounter it in religion, education, food, inventions, and other phenomena.
The more figuration moves away from reality and representation, the more it needs to resort to theory in order
to retain legitimacy. Geometry as we traditionally conceive it can only be legitimized by a tight, rigid theoretical
framework. Dirty Geometry is a rebellious attempt to
break from all theoretical frameworks and invent a geometry free from theory. This is a dirty war, one that could
be defined as below the belt. Georges Bataille believed
that “divine filth” brings about true eroticism; likewise, I
would suggest that it is possible to bring about an eroticism of geometry through dirt. — Osvaldo Romberg
Special thanks to Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York and Buenos Aires
Emilia Azcárate/Venezuela
Alessandro Balteo
Yazbeck/Venezuela
Cecilia Biagini/Argentina
Willys de Castro/Brazil
Sigfredo Chacón/Venezuela
Emilio Chapela/Mexico
Eduardo Costa/Argentina
Marcolina Dipierro/Argentina
Eugenio Espinoza/Venezuela
Jaime Gili/Venezuela
Mathias Goeritz/Mexico
Juan Iribarren/Venezuela
Bárbara Kaplan/Argentina
Ramsés Larzábal/Cuba
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Curated by Osvaldo Romberg
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ESSAY IÑAKI BONILLAS
ALL IMAGES: A Heap of Broken Images, Where the Sun Beats (2012)
Iñaki Bonillas
A Heap of
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats [. . .]
− T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Mexican artist Iñaki Bonillas has long found inspiration in archival
materials, and is best known for the various works and series that
have been mined from the vast store of photographs kept by his
grandfather, one J.R. Plaza. Over the past decade, Bonillas has derived seemingly endless permutations on the image, transforming
the archive from a space of preservation into one of procreation.
This impulse is a recurrent theme in recent art, and Bonillas, like
others working within this mode, can be understood to be gathering
fragments of a disappearing, analogue representational world. There
is more at stake, however, than some melancholic disposition to-
ward the inevitable obsolescence of a medium. His archives expose
notions of essence or origin (whether considered in aesthetic, or biographical terms) as impossibilities; Bonillas has worked not to shore
up the proper realm of the photographic or the familial, but to find
within each the structural potential for proliferation and multiplication. Something similar is at stake in his recent series A Heap of
Broken Images, Where the Sun Beats, even as his collection moves
from the personal to the public, and from the individual to the collective, national past.
I want to describe the ancient earthenware fragments we find
photographed here as “archival residue,” the inevitable supplement
called into existence by the very protocols of compilation and classification that order the archive. They are tepalcates, a Mexican term
for potsherd, or piece of junk, derived from Nahuatl, the surviving
tongue of the pre-Conquest Aztecs. These pieces might have found
themselves incorporated as spolia into a wall, kept as a curio, or
simply tossed over the shoulder, but the logic of archeological excavation requires meticulous cataloging, regardless of significance—
who knows if later exploration might uncover new finds that would
allow the reconstruction of that pot or this plate? In the meantime,
these forlorn parts sit in drawers, bereft as they are of aesthetic or
scientific value. Bonillas finds a peculiar poetry therein, freeing
them from oblivion and worthlessness.
Broken Images was first exhibited at last year’s São Paulo biennial.
Six beautifully crafted wooden light tables presented a careful arrangement of black-and-white negatives of pottery fragments that
appear singly, or sometimes as partly, reassembled items, such as
bowls or plates or vessels. The clarity of the negatives, coupled with
the light box display, gives the work a forensic air, as if we had stumbled upon the lab of an archeologist attempting to piece together the
meaning of these fragments of the past—which, in fact, we had.
Attentive viewers would notice the tiny, neat letters and numbers
painstakingly painted onto many of the potsherds, telltale indications that Bonillas’s subject matter has been catalogued in some
elaborate manner. This particular stony rubbish was found at Chichén Itza, one of the great Mayan ritual temples of the Yucatán.
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ESSAY ERICA BAUM
LEFT: Listen (Naked Eye Anthology) (2013)
RIGHT: Untitled (Awful Silence) (Index) (1999)
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wiched between abstracted striations—fragmented snippets of other
images and text pages from the book isolate the house. We can project onto this arrangement a sense of domestic life. Are we viewing a
scene of lonely seclusion, one fraught with tension and emotional
struggle, or do joy and ecstasy reside at this address? Like Rachel
Whiteread’s House (1993), the archetypical site of domestic habitation is one in which memories accumulate, but Baum’s work is openended like a Rorschach test, leaving interpretation to the viewer. We
write ourselves into the stories suggested by these images.
Sometimes cultural references impart the visual stimulation, such
as in the Viewmaster (2011) series, which is imbued with popular
culture and would be relatable even if the stories and characters were
unfamiliar. Snippets of text narrate the drama and as with the
blanks, the images are opaque. “Through the salon window we see a
giant octopus,” as if we are located within House. Baum creates an
extended stage for her narratives to take place. The Viewmasters are
circular and a haptic sense of holding gives these works an intimacy,
which on the wall is more distant and graphically bold.
Ultimately, language is Baum’s core subject matter, she explains:
“In my pictures, preexisting signifiers yield new signifieds.” Unlike
the conceptual art of Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, Baum
does not highlight the limitations and exhaustion of language. Rather she creates a scene that is replete with meaning, like a daydream.
As in Untitled (Hunting) (1996) from the Card Catalog (1996) series,
Baum is constantly gathering information, seemingly like a random
harvest, but ultimately as a means of propelling her very specific vision of the world and suggesting to each spectator a projection of her
or his own sense of imagination.
Baum’s Dog Ear (2010) series is another instance of the book as a
readymade, replete with the found material of word on page. Baum
selectively turns down the page of a book, as if to mark the spot,
finding unexpected language that provides subliminal poetry. Generating a good Dog Ear is not easy––the pages get turned down,
“photographed” through a scanner, and then printed before the process of culling begins. This is followed by an extended process with
a heavy rejection rate, whereby Baum’s criteria is to achieve expressive Dog Ears. These photographs are about an intersection of the
visual form through reading.
A sub-genre of the Dog Ears, the Blanks (2013) series reference in
their title the books from which they originate, such as The Dangerous Assassins (2012), although in this series Baum features a more
abstract and oblique deployment of language than she did in Dog
Ears, where the title originates from text in the image. In Blanks, no
text is seen, but we know we are looking at a book. Even with these
more formal images, language remains potent with rich ambiguities referring to the unseen. Yet the evidence Baum provides insinuates a way for each viewer to project onto the image. Tapping into
the conventions of street photography, she proposes an intimate
world based on the language of the past, while projecting contemporary imaginations.
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