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The new exhibition project at Sanatorium urges audiences to make a new discovery in their lives. First, this exhibition looks like a conventional contemporary art exhibition, however scrutinizing the works become a discovery of mysterious endeavor. The mystery in this exhibition first comes with its main theme, which suggests that, “everything is part of a […]
“But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction–what, has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain,” is how Virginia Woolf starts her long essay titled “A Room of One’s own.” Woolf suggests that a woman needs a room of her own to […]
Peter Kogler can change audiences’ perception of space and time with his installations. Kogler’s current installation in Dirimart Gallery in Istanbul is an example of this experience. Since the 1980s when he started to use computer technologies in his art, Kogler has developed an approach that involves a series of recurring motifs that create a […]
George Condo is one of the best-known artists of contemporary art. He works in the media of painting and sculpture. He has exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; the Guggenheim, New York; the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany and most recently at the […]
To what extent can a video artist and a writer share the same platform of creativity? “Lawrence Durell’s major concern, like that of all serious artists, is with the essence of things,” wrote author Jeremy Robinson in one of his essays. Ali Kazma shares the same concern and works to reflect the essence of things […]
Ferhat Özgür, artist, art critic, academic and curator, prefers to feel his existence in every part of art. He proves this in his new exhibition titled “The Room of Emotion.” at Ankara’s Gallery Nev. In his new exhibition Özgür interprets an old story in a contemporary way. He reveals the underlying “emotional situations” which occur […]
Every manner of exhibition and art event takes place in Istanbul, but Ankara always seems to stand behind. Even though the city has some acclaimed and long-running art galleries, Ankara’s destiny has been to stay the same, and it has never showcased itself like Istanbul. When academic, artist and curator Ferhat Özgür gathered the works […]
The word epiphany comes from ancient Greek and means a sudden realization or comprehension of the larger essence or meaning of something. It is a “deep” word, which is used to understand a situation better. But Kerimcan Güleyüz, a passionate man of art and the owner of The Empire Project Art Gallery, uses the word […]
It is time to share Franz Kafka’s works. The whole world is looking for them now. Kafka left his writings and unpublished works to his close associate Max Brod. Then Brod left them to his secretary Esther Hoffe, with whom he appears to have had an amorous relationship. Years later, Hoffe said she had the […]
Reutilizing and recycling things for the purpose of art is one of the responsibilities of an artist, according to Argentine Maximo Gonzalez, whose current show at Istanbul’s Artane Art Gallery proves his attachment to his principles. Even ideas are reusable, Gonzalez said, adding that it was possible to turn ideas into “valuable” things. Gonzalez working […]