Turkish artist Fusun Onur’s installation Opus II – Fantasia on display in Istanbul

By Handan Kazanci

ISTANBUL (AA) – One of the pioneers of Turkey’s contemporary art, Fusun Onur’s new installation Opus II – Fantasia is open for visits at the Arter art gallery in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul till Feb. 20.

The 83-year-old artist’s installation is adapted to the gallery space with a "new spatial arrangement" and curated by Emre Baykal.

“In the installation which carries references to music, as is the case with many of her works, Fusun Onur uses four ordinary objects as the medium and elements of music, interpreting space and time through rhythm and variations,” the gallery said in a statement.

Opus II – Fantasia was conceived by Onur in 2001 for an exhibition titled Aus der Ferne so nah, or From Far Away So Close, at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden–Baden in Germany.

Onur later created different rearrangements of her work for group exhibitions Tactics of Invisibility in 2011 at Arter, and Border of Time in 2018 at the Neues Museum Nurnberg, Germany.

“Deploying every day, fictional, and even autobiographical elements to explore form, space, time, and the relations among them through an exceptional variety of materials, Fusun Onur approaches music as a process that engages multiple senses,” the press release said.

“Onur is currently preparing a new work for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale which will be held in 2022.”