Elegy for the Wild Pear Tree

Working with a variety of materials including glass, iron, aluminium, steel, wood, and stone to create minimal sculptures of geometric shape or archetypical forms, Osman Dinç is keen on exploring and including the historical and cultural contexts of these materials, as well as highlighting the processes involved in their geological formation. Fuelled by his personal story and his relationship to nature, and on a broader scale by the life of the cosmos, Dinç’s works are acquainted with the ways in which Arte Povera artists have approached organic and inorganic materials, along with the ways in which Minimalism has translated concepts, objects, and spaces into basic geometric forms.

"Elegy for the Wild Pear Tree" consists of the photographs of wild pear trees taken in the fields of Denizli by Osman Dinç between 1984 and 2014. Previously abundant in coppices in the fields, many wild pear trees were sacrificed to the process of the industrialisation of agriculture, and others left standing alone in vast areas. These isolated trees distant from each other were allowed to survive so that their bodies and shadows would serve as resting places for animals and farmers. Each image installed on a music stand like a composition to be played resembles a tree standing alone in the field. The music stands are associated with a tree that provides shelter, while the images of the trees from different times and places perform a symphony of silence.