Artist: Serkan Özkaya
Date: 2013
Size: 5 x 5 cm
Technique: Glass
Serkan Özkaya has primarily encountered Western art works in books and magazines before experiencing them in person. This encounter shaped his entire oeuvre, in which replication and appropriation assume a central importance. Özkaya focuses on concepts such as the tension between the original and the copy; the institutionalising of a work of art; and strategies of liberating the work from the institutional context into everyday life. He challenges the ways in which a work of art is monetised in the art market via uniqueness and artificial scarcity, and develops works that can be reproduced ad infinitum without losing their value. His large-scale installation
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