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





Virutual Bodies Masthead:
Photographer Ali Alisir












Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition 1/10
serial number:015
Ali Alışır - 155cm x 110cm - Limited Edition /10





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.
September 2008
Ali Alisir's exhibition - “My Childhood Heros” opened in Adaevi.
December 2008
Ali Alisir's exhibition - “My Childhood Heros II” opened in Galeri 5.
November 2009
Ali Alisir's exhibition - “Virtual Bodies” opened in Ekavart Gallery.
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
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