C.A.M. Gallery is hosting Yavuz Tanyeli’s solo exhibition titled “Gray Zone” from November 9 to December
9, 2024. This exhibition exclusively features the artist’s works from 2024, created with the oil-on-paper
technique.

 As one of the most prominent living artists of figurative painting, Tanyeli’s exhibition is accompanied by a
catalog in which Feyyaz Yaman describes the series as follows:
“The canvas is like Perseus’s mirrored shield. Like Medusa’s gaze petrifying itself, he does not shy away
from looking into the fire at the cost of blinding his eyes. He has experienced that the capacity for “insight”
is more about the ability to perceive images in the cortex than in the eyes, much like Borges.

The vision behind this foresight is essentially his history. He has developed his method from his master, Or
han Peker. He experienced Orhan Peker’s escape from the academic-official gaze during his apprenticeship.
The ‘expressive’ reflex he developed, without falling into the barrenness of abstract-figurative debates, is as
skilled in using stains and black (trained in Vienna and Spanish Catholicism) as Yavuz Tanyeli’s expressive
ness, where the power of critique merges, is equally masterful.

 As he swings colors extracted from the spectrum of light on canvas through the years, he is just as skilled
in showcasing the richness of all shades of black today. He navigates color sensitivity through all levels of
atonality. Black not only expresses the fear that crushes humanity in the gothic world; just as it was used in
avant-garde art, it regains its potential to be “color” in this period. Even in the silence, or rather blindness,
of our times, he still strives to summon humanity to something.

 Today, as an artist whose darkness has come to the border with a spade instead of a staff, Yavuz Tanyeli brings hope to darkened worlds with his move to “bury evil,” using “black” symbolically in his latest works.”