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Ahmet Doğu İpek: Iron Earth Copper Sky
18 October 2025 to 8 March 2026
EndedIstanbul-based artist's residency-born works on paper bridge Cornish standing stones, planetary geology, and Anatolian landscape in sweeping large-scale works.
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Inspired by the natural landscape of Cornwall and the Anatolian night sky, İpek's large-scale works on paper evoke Neolithic standing stones and the ores that permeate the geology of the region, as well as the planets Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus and the sensation of a galaxy. The works are named after St Eia, the patron saint of St Ives, and the exhibition title borrows from a 1963 novel by Turkish-Kurdish writer Yaşar Kemal. New work developed as part of a two-...
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© Tate St Ives
Ahmet Doğu İpek: Iron Earth Copper Sky
18 October 2025 to 8 March 2026
EndedIstanbul-based artist's residency-born works on paper bridge Cornish standing stones, planetary geology, and Anatolian landscape in sweeping large-scale works.
From Tate St Ives
Inspired by the natural landscape of Cornwall and the Anatolian night sky, İpek's large-scale works on paper evoke Neolithic standing stones and the ores that permeate the geology of the region, as well as the planets Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus and the sensation of a galaxy. The works are named after St Eia, the patron saint of St Ives, and the exhibition title borrows from a 1963 novel by Turkish-Kurdish writer Yaşar Kemal. New work developed as part of a two-...
Read more at Tate St Ives →Critic Reviews
No reviews yet for this exhibition.
Visit
St Ives, Cornwall·View on artmap
Sunday10am–5:20pm
Monday10am–5:20pm
Tuesday10am–5:20pm
Wednesday10am–5:20pm
Thursday10am–5:20pm
Friday10am–5:20pm
Saturday10am–5:20pm