Virtual Bodies

serial number:001

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:002

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:003

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:004

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:005

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:006

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:007

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:008

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:009

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:010

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:011

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:012

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:013

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:014

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:015

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:016

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:017

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:018

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:019

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 2/10

serial number:020

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:021

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:022

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:023

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:024

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:025

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:026

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:027

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 10/10

(All Editions sold out)

serial number:028

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:029

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:030

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:031

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10

serial number:032

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:033

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:034

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 4/10

serial number:035

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

serial number:036

Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10

W O R K S F O R S A L E

ALİ ALIŞIR's works

are available for sale as numbered,signed and

certified prints.They are prepared as Epson printouts on

Hahnemuehle paper or Durst Lambda on paper with Italian timber frame.

All prints come in limited editions.Each print has only 10 signed copies.An arbitrary size print costs 4000 EUR plus shipping.

For More information;

http://www.alialisirblog.com

Virtual Bodies on TV Programs

Haberturk

Atv

Ekavart Tv

CnnTurk-Afis

Virutual Bodies Masthead:

Artist:Ali Alışır

Curator:Tuba Kocakaya

Sponsors:Epson/Uğur Varlı Fotoğraf Hizmetleri

ali@alialisir.com / alialisir@hotmail.com

YOU CAN ALSO VISIT;

http://www.alialisirblog.com

http://alialisiryazilar.wordpress.com

http://alialisirphotogallery.wordpress.com

ALI ALISIR BIOGRAPHY

Ali Alisir was born in İstanbul, in 1978.He received an art scholarship from Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts in 1996 and started to acquire training in graphic design.During his education he took courses in painting and photography and gained some experience in these disciplines.Paintings and illustrations created during that time by Alisir were exhibited in various mixed exhibitions.After completing his education,Alisir moved to Italy where he worked as a freelance fashion and glamour photographer.He attended the program of fashion photography as a graduate student in Accademia Italiana in Florence.During this period he learned graphic design,aesthetics of photography,3d animation,multimedia design and completed his education by majoring in digital ﬁction in photography.Alisir jumped at the opportunity to work with various notable artists working for renowned companies like Giorgio Armani,and Salvatore Ferragamo.Alisir graduated from Accademia Italiana in 2006,he immediately began working with one of the leading fashion photographers of Italy Roberto Quagli and designers LucioAntonucci to produced fashion digital manipulations based on ﬁction. Most of his works were exhibited in fairs and galleries in Italy and won prizes.His ﬁrst painting atelier was established in İstanbul in 1998.He still works as a professional fashion photographer and artist in Turkey and Italy.Ali Alisir also qualifies as a university lecto at the Department of Graphic Design of Yeditepe Fine Arts Faculty.

Ali Alışır Expositions/News 2007-2009

March 2008

Photo Digital-Exposition with Ali Alışır.

September 2008

Ali Alışır's exhibition - “My Childhood Heros” being shown in Adaevi.

A spot on Ali Alışır's work on the TV (ATV)

Fotohaber Magazine – Cover,Exposition and an exclusive interview with Ali Alışır.

October 2008

Saura Magazine –Issue 21- Exposition with Ali Alışır.

Photoline Magazine – Cover.

November 2008

Digital Arts- Cover,Exposition and an interview with Ali Alışır.

Photoline Magazine- Exposition.

December 2008

Ali Alisir's exhibition - “My Childhood Heros II” being shown in Galeri 5.

Discussion with Ali Alışır during the TV news (NTV)

Mikserdeki Beyin - Exposition.

Photoshop Magazine - Exposition and an exclusive interview with Ali Alışır.

Photoline Magazine – Interview with Ali Alışır.

January 2009

Olay Magazine - Exposition and an exclusive interview with Ali Alışır.

February / March 2009

Photoline Magazine- Exposition

April /May 2009

Photoline Magazine-Exposition

June/Jully 2009

Photoline Magazine-Exposition

Fotograf Dergisi-Exposition

Jully/Agust 2009

PsikeArt Magazine- Cover,Exposition and an interview with Ali Alışır.

Photoline Magazine-Exposition

Fotograf Dergisi-Exposition

Virtual Bodies - Ali Alışır

My exhibition called “Virtual Bodies” aimed to question the place of “the body” and the individuals in consumer society.

The body has been replaced the soul in today’s consumer society. And the body is surrounded by the myths of health, diet, theraphy and desire. We are constantly invited to re-discover the bodies by Mass media which converted them into an investment object. For example; the temperature of a model in a woman’s magazine is the same as a modern furniture. This is an “ambiance” temperature. New sexuality is hot and cold just like the hot and cold colors game in “functional” housing. The erotism is not in the desire but in its indicators.

Sexuality is no longer just in sexuality, but also in many other places; media, cinema, literature. Likewise the politics is not only in politics but has spread to all areas. To religion, art, philosophy and to science. Today, football is a little politics, art is a little magazine and the magazine is a little art.

The fact is intertwined with the copies and the reality, with the appearance. Day by day, our lives started to go into a simulation. Society is composed of largely similar individuals who speak, think and wear as in the world of television so that the type of individuals trying to find a sense for the existence has largely disappeared.

As we can call it “the Transparency Era”, this is an age where we can’t help but mix everything to everything. Everything could be everything and everyone can say or do everything.

Politics are determined by public research; ads by testing; songs played on the radio by consumer panels, the end of the movies and posters by polls and television programs are determined by ratings.

My work is an attemp to reveal this inversion and the transsexual structure of the system. It is based on the despair and the disintegration of individuals subject to continous sexual, political and religious manipulation.

Feel-good states coming from serum, controlled anesthesia, cloned expressions and lifes. Models on the state of sleep-swim are just carrying the happiness scattered around as a mask on their face.

The models exhibited are transformed into virtual bodies and artificial androjin identities which no longer has any side to be desired. Cloned bodies and the heads found a body in other individuals. This irony is an artistic criticism of how we are transformed into similar copies in a cultural and mental state of cloning.

Ali Alışır