Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü Dergisi

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Postmodern art movements
primarily began in America and some European countries in the 1960s as a result
of the process whereby the artist, an individual in the first place, having
been affected by the great social events of the day, began to reflect his
personal ideas in his works. The object of art, having gone through many
changes in the history of art, is considered together with place as sculpture
combined with place and the painting freed itself from flat surface in the
postmodern era.  In this respect, concept of place is aimed to analyze in
different perspectives and its relation with the art object is made clear with
examples. The two Turkish artists considered in this study are Hale Tenger and
Ayşe Erkmen. Both artists used place as the primary element in their works, but
they utilize the space by the means of fictioning as to the new context. In
these contexts, Erkmen mentioned the sociological issues by the public spaces
turning into the art objects and benefited from the sociologic historical
informations. On the other hand Tenger gained advantage individual historical
informations, controversies like male-female, death-life and inside-outside,
preferred to attract and make the people shock by the way of using odour,
lightness and motion of the space and adding these effects to the head meaning.