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Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art Explored at Istanbul Modern |
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By Culturekiosque Staff ISTANBUL, 24 FEBRUARY 2010 — Inaugurated on 11 December 2004, Istanbul Modern is the first museum of modern and contemporary art in Turkey. Situated at the shores of the Bosphorus and located in one of the entrepots on the port, Istanbul Modern faces the historical peninsula with Topkapi Palace and Hagia Sophia across the Golden Horn and leans back to Pera. The museum's new show, From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art, curated by Istanbul Modern’s chief curator Levent Çalýkoðlu, explores the relationship between art and the traditional and how modern and contemporary Turkish artists employ history in their construction of a new language of expression.
Traditional objects, such as calligraphies, miniatures, stained glass, textiles, tombaks, and carpets, juxtapose works on view in disciplines ranging from video to painting and from installation art to photography by the following artists: Erol Akyavaþ, Ýsmet Doðan, Ýnci Eviner, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboðlu, Selma Gürbüz, Ergin Ýnan, Balkan Naci Ýslimyeli, Murat Morova, and Ekrem Yalçýndað. Thus, the exhibition hopes to encourage viewers to establish visual and conceptual relationships between works of art, on the one hand, and history and culture, on the other. Istanbul Modern Related Culturekiosque Archvies Television: Atlantic Records - The House That Ahmet Built Interview: Burhan Öçal - Music alla Turca Orhan Pamuk Wins 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature Turkish Writer Orhan Pamuk Receives German Peace Prize Istanbul in Paris: Nefés by Pina Bausch Interview: Fazil Say Andreas Gursky at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Twittering from the Ancient World: The Master Strokes of Hassan Massoudy | |
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