BUBI | ICONS

Bubi, one of the leading figures in Turkish contemporary art, will meet art lovers on April 2 at DG Art Project with the exhibition “ICONS,” curated by Dr. Zeynep Öztürk. In this exhibition, Bubi reinterprets the conventional concept of the icon through his own artistic language, transforming icons—which have religious connotations in both Eastern and Western art—into a narrative that is everyday, personal, and at times ironic.

The artist, who has held numerous solo exhibitions both domestically and internationally, reexamines the concept of the icon within his own artistic practice. Although “Icons” historically signify a religious domain, they take on a different meaning in Bubi’s works. The artist questions the logic of icon-making and sanctification through figures ranging from ordinary people to weapons, from animals to comic book heroes, and the “other.” In this regard, the series invites the viewer not merely to look, but to become part of the inquiry. Spanning figures such as “Superman,” “Batman,” and “Red Kit” to “Family” and “Self-Portrait,” this series presents a fragmented yet coherent visual language belonging to the artist’s world.

Through vehicles such as tanks, catapults, and cannons featured in the exhibition, the artist constructs a critical discourse directed at these objects, which have been etched into human history with blood. He expresses his approach to the sanctification of weapons and their identification with individual identi