Kipat. Kaplankadilak

"When you quickly leaf through the pages of Kipat, you may have a feeling that you are seeing characters, scenes from cartoons or fantastic movies. Daily objects, for instance a roll of toilet paper, a face, a momentary light, an ordinary moment in the course of life, an absurd moment, a feeling, in short, anything we come across may be the subject of his work. Their basic material being various, easily attainable paper supports their simplicity, ordinariness. And when you slowdown türningthe pages, every work waits in the wings there to pop up from the pages as in the animations, and at the same time to absorb you into their bold darkness, an effect similar to the light of classical portraits. Then we set forth on a simultaneous journey into the fantastic world of kaplankadilak and to the daily life of Güçlü Öztekin.A conversation between these two accompanies this journey, a talk on painting, working, and their relations with ordinary things, during which they sometimes argue, sometimes agree."  Ceren Erdem

[Kipat is a rearrangement of the letters of the Turkish word kitap, which means book. It doesn't have a meaning of its own.]

316 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish-English bilingual.