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Very nice sculpture park-they made this for against buildup shopping mall. Church, craft street, Ukrainian food:) Kyiv chicken cutlet should be wet by batter.
Photos by Takeshi Ito on his trip to the Ukraine
Takeshi Ito has been studying in Prague since then he is a travelling artist, Istanbul, Chisinau, Kyiv. He continues to pursue his theme of “passing on.” He believes that “life is about passing on something to a successor: children, loved ones and strangers. Passing on is life itself.” Tricycles, representing love of parents to children and hedgehogs, representing love, re-occur in his sculptures and installations. The colour red, which represents communication, connection and relationship in Japan, is his signature colour. Ito works mostly with glass, for him glass is a material which can hold light, darkness, air, will and time – fragile, yet all encompassing.
Takeshi Ito at Maumau, Istanbul April 2013
Visit also Hidropark in Kiev by Takeshi Ito at Sense of Time [...]
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SALT continues to invite others to reinterpret the Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin Collection, which consists of the artist’s archive and books, located at SALT Galata. So far four installations have been realized, by Alptekin’s spouse Camila Rocha and by three of Alptekin’s friends Ahmet Şenkart, Özgür Uçkan and Luchezar Boyadjiev. The fifth project, titled Index and Circulation: Driftmentary, is undertaken by the Grup Grip-in Collective whose members Ali Cindoruk, Eray Makal and Erhan Muratoğlu had participated in diverse projects and exhibitions with Alptekin.
Index and Circulation: Driftmentary aims to draw interrelations between the indexical and artistic approach of Alptekin. The listing available in the Café at SALT Galata represents the whole archive, while the objects and images displayed in SALT Research examine the relationship between the index and archive. This approach enables the viewer to navigate his/her own path through the concepts that Alptekin often referred to, such as circulation, heterotopia, intertextuality and appropriation.
The Grup Grip-in Collective members Ali Cindoruk, Eray Makal and Erhan Muratoğlu will give a talk about the project Index and Circulation: Driftmentary which they reinterpreted Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin archive at SALT Galata.
Talk: The Grup Grip-in Collective
October 1, 19.00
SALT Galata, SALT Research
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The Artisterium VI, the annual international contemporary art exhibition and series of public art events, opens in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 4th, and runs through October 14, 2013.
The Artisterium 2013 theme of “Am I You?” encourages participants to research the phenomena of the Other and the ecology of our relation and responsibility to the Other. We wish to explore possible ways of coexisting with unfamiliar, different or even disagreeable ideologies and lifestyles, while at the same time calling for participation, understanding and empathy. Through the year’s theme we hope to reveal modes of exploring the influence that shape our connections to divers thoughts and attitudes – and even the life forms – living next to us on this planet.-
Sitki Kösemen in Tbilisi
Artisterium VI
4-14 October, 2013, Tbilisi, Georgia
Artisterium VI [...]
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Sea Elephant Travel Agency was launched by InEnArt as a online platform in memory of Hüseyin B. Alptekin who founded the Sea Elephant Travel Agency as a visual and performing arts laboratorium, focussing on inter-actions of variety of populations and cultures in the Black Sea Region.
InEnArt launches the Sea Elephant Travel Agency 2013 ten years after the planned trip as an open online platform with the aim to continue tracing the imaginary itinerary of Jules Verne on the Black Sea.
If you are in search of covering specific perspectives in the contemporary art scene, starting from local and regional energies and events in relationship with universal networks within the frame of individual initiatives and reciprocal solidarities please apply and become involved into our enterprize.
Artists and art professionals are invited to participate with art works and ideas into the ongoing platform.
Please download the application form and send it together with the requested supporting material to info@inenart.eu.
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The Hulda Festival is inspired by a boat trip with artists and art professionals and the dream of the well known Turkish artist Ilhan Koman to bring his ship to the Mediterranean.
photo from www.huldafestival.org
İlhan Koman bought his ship, the Hulda in 1965 and renovated its interior which was originally designed for cargo and made her into his home. She was renovated and restored for the purposes of the Hulda Festival, based on her original drawings.
The son of Ilhan Koman – Ahmet Koman – made this dream real, he renovated the Hulda and created with friends the ongoing Hulda Festival, a boat trip dedicated to art and sciences with several destinations, where exhibitions, performances and workshop are taking place.-
The Hulda Festival is an innovative platform which aims at contributing to raising public interest for building bridges between sciences, arts and daily life. Exploration and human interaction constitute the core of the Hulda’s mission: resident artists from different countries and/or cultures are implementing workshops in their creative domain and as inspired by Hulda’s journey, the region and their experience.
The project entitled Hulda Festival, a Journey into Art and Science is an itinerant festival organized by the İlhan Koman Foundation (Turkey) in eight countries. Its project partners are Komans Konstförening (Sweden) for organization and ArtBox.gr | creative art management (Greece). The first part of the project was implemented in Turkey, Greece and Malta from July to October 2012. The second part will be implemented from the beginning of May 2013 to end August 2013 in Albania, Montenegro, Italy, France, Spain and Turkey.
The Second Journey Into Art And Science
The Hulda project is the second of a series of events, which were inspired by İlhan Koman’s quest, and combine the artist’s passion for unrestricted thought, research and The Mediterranean. Koman’s historical vessel M/S Hulda which has been his home and workshop in the last two decades of his life has made this journey possible.
open call for artists:
Artists are invited to submit applications with their portfolio to travel on M/S Hulda, show their work in the exhibition onboard and implement workshops.
Two or three artists will be invited to travel at each segment for 12 days on the average (5 days travel + 7 days events). Guest artists will be joined by local artists at each destination. Participating artists are expected to design their projects and implement open workshops at the destinations collaboratively or individually. Their works will be shown in an exhibition onboard.
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“Artisterium ‘08” Tbilisi, Georgia “International Exhibition of Contemporary Art”
In the beginning of november 2008 Sitki Kösemen travelled to Tblisi in Georgia. He went there for the ARTISTEIRUM I, which is Tbilisi’s Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition. The event is comprised of international art exhibitions, individual art projects, panel discussion, educational and cultural programs.
The name of the event restores the connections of contemporary art in Georgia to the Tbilisian modernism, thus to its roots. Georgia’s natural development has often been interrupted in consequence of its geo-political location, which always determined the cultural, political and historical characteristics of the country. The processes taking place in Georgia now, its political, social and cultural environment, make it necessary to present Georgian art extensively at the cultural and artistic space of the world, and to bring this space closer to Georgia.
Photos by Sitki Kösemen
Georgia as well as the whole of the South Caucasus is in the process of defining its place on the world contemporary art map. Therefore the “Artisterium” aims at elaboration of such a platform that assists a development of open and straight dialogue, an establishment of long-term contacts and a popularisation of Tbilisi art scene.
On the basis of meetings and exchange amongst artists and curators from various countries one of the main goals of the event is to search for those differences and commonalities that define one’s place and an identity in art. Sitki Kösemen, as a photographer, took part in the “Caravansarai dans/in Karvasla”, curated by Shalva Khakhanashvili from France.
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Aboard the converted container barge Negrelli Turkish artist Kutluğ Ataman’s film installation Küba traveled 1,500 kilometers up the Danube River. A geografic space with specific social, political and cultural contexts unfolded; at each stop – in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia – a new artwork specifically commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary was presented in dialogue with Ataman’s original installation.
Over two months “Küba” has been travelling on a barge motoring, against the current, up the Danube from the Black Sea to Vienna. As the boat docked in different cities along the river—Rousse in Bulgaria, Novi Sad in Serbia, Vukovar in Croatia, Budapest in Hungary and Bratislava in Slovakia—local artists exhibited new work that they made in response to Mr Ataman’s films. The result is a nomadic art project called “Küba: Journey Against the Current”: a dynamic dialogue between a travelling work of art and the artists it meets en route.
Küba is a community of men, women and children who live in one of the most notorious ghettos in Istanbul, a shantytown slum that started as a hideout for left-wing militants and other outsiders, refugees from the “East” in the 1960s. Since then it has developed into a cohesive society, a security zone presenting an impenetrable solidarity to the outside world and providing protection against violent assaults and political terror. Today, Küba consists of several hundred temporary refuges. The makeshift houses, built from scrap metal and soil, stand in the shadow of a twenty-first century megalopolis.
For Kutluğ Ataman, the stories of “Küba” are universal. They raise questions about how outsiders can fit into a dominant culture and create a conversation with viewers that compels them to respond to these dispossessed people as individuals, rather than as a mass of others. Mr Ataman believes the work should be seen outside the static space of a museum and is delighted that, now the barge has docked in Vienna.
Commissioned by Artangel, London, co-produced by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Theater der Welt, Stuttgart; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney [...]
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