A semiotic reading of the "Cengiz Çekil exhibition? (11 May-10 July 2010-Gallery Rampa)

In this dissertation 17 artworks (installations, videos and graphic-paintings) belonging to artist Cengiz Çekil (who is often referred as the ?hidden? artist of the contemporary art) and exhibited at Gallery Rampa in 2010, are analyzed in the light of semiology, which is one of the methods used in reading plastic arts, and visual semiology. Cengiz Çekil?s place and importance in contemporary Turkish art are revealed. The visual language created by the artist using recent historical images (after 1970) are evaluated and within his relevance world artists. As there is only one printed publication about the artist, this dissertation aims to offer a different perspective while analyzing Cengiz Çekil?s works via semiologic approach. From observations on form the analysis reached the meaning of the Cengiz Çekil?s imaginary world.Keywords: Semiology, Semiotic Reading, Cengiz Çekil