…m I am not a Studio Artist – Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul 2011 The most comprehensive exhibition of Hüseyın Alptekin’s work to date, I am not a Studıo Artist included nearly fifty works incollage, neon, video, photography, sculpture and installation. Some had been lost for years, but were carefully reconstituted from material found in what the exhibition’s curator, Vasif Kortun, calls “the organized chaos” of Alptekin’s archive,…
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…us is changing (maybe for the worse) there is still hope and the possibility of dreaming of change. Raphael Vella (n.d.). raphaelvella.com. Available at: http://raphaelvella.com/…
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…ty of Malta and concluded a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of London in 2006. Since 2009, Vella has been curating exhibitions and creating diverse cultural initiatives such as the Valletta International Visual Arts festival (VIVA). From 2000, he has enjoyed several artist residencies around the world, and his artworks have been exhibited in many international contexts. Currently, he is also an Associate Professor at the University of Malta and…
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…rs from all over the world to join in at the project at the occasion of the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. WHAT? This year´s theme is „Literary Cities“. Welcomed are texts imaginary or real, past, present or future related, utopian or dystopian, stories dealing with our cities and metropolis as the core of culture and creativity. WHEN? From August 15th until October 12th participating authors will write and publish in real-time. HOW? This experiment is…
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…Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1880- 91. The tobacco company took the cental composition of the painting (the section with the Cossacks or nomads), which shows nomadic people, riding horses and moving. They are in a state of rebellion and ride for independence; they are even willing to write a letter to the Sultan, even though they don’t know how to read write. Only one person, the one sitting in the center of the table and i…
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…exchange. […] Among Friends: One Chapter of a Long Story September 20, 2023Détournement / Events / Topics / Voices The exhibition “Among Friends: One Chapter of a Long Story” showcases works by artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957-2007) and 16 of his close friends. In her conceptual text, Curator Pelin Uran quotes French philosopher Jacques Derrida‘s reflection about the dilemma of friendship. “There is a future, which is predictable, p…
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…d in an apartment in Galata, that could be located on Tarlabaşı as well. The bedrooms and the entrance are partly broadcasted over screens to the audience. Parallel activities are creating the complexity of history and fate in a pleasant, playful way. http://galataperform.com/izetkinlik/ Have a look at Tarlabaşı: http://senseoftime.inenart.eu/?p=1692…
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…t’s where I probably saw a natural passage to Industrial Design. Lately, in 2012 and 2014, in the two editions of the Salone del Mobile in Milano, I’ve been doing works in the fine line between art and design. There is where I realised that Industrial Design, that has a useful factor, was not enough for me. That’s why I left industrial design and started with artistic projects. Why did you decide to leave Romania and come to Spain? Was it a diffic…
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…M video conferencing software! Contact for registration info@nadasistanbul.com. On Saturday 4th of April 2020, a group of 22 people from around the world met on an online platform in order to attend an art workshop. Better said, a portrait workshop done through a camera. The project Face to Face – Yüz Yüze is a portrait exhibition, initially planned to be realized physically in the frame of the international Slow Art day, in the warm and cooperati…
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