ARTS AND CULTURE
Taner Şekercioğlu is a partner at Kilit Taşı Tasarım - one of the most awarded industrial product design practices in Turkey. After the lockdown, he chose to slow down a little and has begun creating unique works of art from paper.
“I fell in love with paper during the time I spent in my family’s stationary shop as a child. Architectural models, especially abstracted terrains made from multiple paper layers, have always fascinated me. In my late twenties, I had a handmade paper-making adventure that lasted almost two years. Part of my interest in photography was fueled by the conventional darkroom processes that directly involve handling paper. Lately, I’ve started designing multi-layered wall sculptures using sheets of paper.
“Life progresses in layers; sometimes through external influences, but more often through our own choices, accumulating on top of each other. One should prevent these layers from turning into an uncontrolled pile, and instead be able to look back and see a meaningful whole. With layers of paper that I assemble on top of each other, I aspire to form meaningful entities with personal messages for each observer.
“The resulting works are like architectural sketches, viewed sometimes as facades, and sometimes as plans. The work currently on display at Bizim Tepe is a very special part of this series. It appears to be a flower in full bloom, incorporating multiple tiers of theater-like forms as its leaves. Harkening back to the first bouleuteria in the cities of ancient Anatolia, ‘Spring Is Around The Corner’ radiates the warm hope of peaceful days that this land deserves.”
Published July 2023
