Yesim Akdeniz Graf and Markus Amm

Yesim Akdeniz Graf and Markus Amm are two artists with a very different approach but a common interest in modernism.

Whereas German artist Markus Amm follows a formal way of working in which fragmentation is crucial, translating art history into his own abstract visual language; Turkish born painter, Yesim Akdeniz Graf’s approach is a more narrative one.

Yesim’s imagery is derived from mass media as well as from specific icons such as modernist architecture. Her work can almost be read as a modernising of old narratives, a questioning of how these stories could end today; what is or could be different now? Yesim often creates an installation of related paintings, both figurative and abstract, but for the “The Man”, her exhibition at westlondonprojects, she collages fabrics for the first time and combines these with large-scale drawings that create a storyboard effect.

Markus is producing a new sculpture for this show, as well as a series of large format photographs that refer to his site-specific wall drawings. The third element in his presentation will be Luminograms, a photographic technique similar to the photogram that was developed in the experimental 1920s. It allows for the creation of abstract photographic images without a negative, using only the effect of light on chemically prepared paper.

Yesim Akdeniz Graf and Markus Amm