Thomas Brambilla Gallery is honored to present the first solo show of the Turkish artist Goekhan Erdogan.
His work is mainly based on the concept of identity, not only in its more common and diffused meaning, but as an actual inner knowledge process. Goekhan Erdogan magnifies the photos of the common people photocopying them on paper. So he begins a process of reconstruction of the whole humanity. He pastes these faces one above the other and then he packs this paper mass under an ancient press obtaining what he calls the paper block. At the end of this process, when the glue is dry, the artist begins his intervention as a demiurge. With some fine sand he begins to dig seeking a pure, clear, primary image. The result is an undefined, indistinguishable, impersonal identity.
Nevertheless, the result is even the reunification of the single identities in a collectivity: the whole humanity.