CAGRI KANVER BRINGS ARTIMUS SCULPTURE TO EL TURCO HAMPTONS
Cagri Kanver With Olivier Vidal This summer 2023, in cooperation with Cagri Kanver the GAD Foundation is presenting the sculptural work of architect and sculptor Gokhan Avcioglu for the first time in New York with the installation of the ARTIMUS sculpture in Easthampton, New York at El Turco Hamptons. The GAD Foundation brings this important sculptural installation to the contemporary art scene in the Hamptons introducing concepts of advanced computational form making with digital fabrication. ARTIMUS is the ancient Anatolian Luwian goddess of nature originating from the Bronze Age Luwian people, 2500-1200 BC of Western Anatolia in present day Turkey. Gokhan Avcioglu draws inspiration from nature and the deities from ancient Anatolia to reintroduce a new notion of nature and form through archaic tendencies mixed with advanced forms in this statue ARTIMUS. The ARTIMUS installation is intended to work in the natural setting of sea and forest in the Hamptons to a...