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Gallery Espas is hosting new works by Ahmet Sarı, who plays games with colors and figures while creating movement on canvas. In Sarı’s images, an individual self is never happy, but is rather an injured, fatigued, depressed and even desperate subject powerlessly lost in the jungle of society. He draws animals in different figures and […]
HATİCE UTKANLONDON – Hürriyet Daily News Italian composer Donizetti’s world famous opera ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ first staged in 1833, is now at the London Coliseum with the interpretation of film director Mike Figgis. The English director’s ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ raises eyebrows with its unique presentation of the erotic and dark side of this well-known opera by combining […]
The new exhibition “Display windows” will be on for the next month at Apel, holding a mirror up to window displays and their efforts to sell a wide range of products. The choice of objects for exhibition, and the way in which they are displayed, gives cause for pause. The works remind viewers of the […]
With the solitude provided by its lakes and forests, Abant in the northern province of Bolu is one of the prime spots for Turks wanting to commune with nature. The Yedigöller area in Abant, might be the best choice to discover the nature and find serenity given the chaotic city life of Istanbul or Ankara. […]
STARTING POINT: Arts, culture and the prime minister Friday, January 21, 2011Hatice Utkan A theater play can focus on anything. Usually in the old days, Turkish theater plays focused on political issues. Although it was very hard to do a proper or funny play with political issues, playwrights and artists tried very hard and in […]
January 8-28 Sezgin Güvel and Ahmet Yakar’s photography exhibition “Refinery,” which takes industrial labor as an artistic focus, is continuing at the Istanbul Association of Photography and Cinema, or İFSAK. “We would like to reflect the life of working people in the middle of melting metals, flames and smoke. We photographed how the red and […]
The meaning of “still life,” “digital images” and “existence” is about to change with a new exhibition at Sanatorium. Yağız Özgen’s solo exhibition entitled “Still Life” questions the digital life in a “real” way as the typical still-life paintings that we have seen for many years are changing with the artist’s new works. Still lifes […]
AlanIstanbul is hosting the works of Selma Gürbüz in an exhibition titled “Red and Black,” which makes references to philosophy and literature while bringing a new meaning to the soul of the human being. “Red and Black” is the first part of a trilogy of exhibitions. The first part is at AlanIstanbul, while London will […]
We were always spectators, we always scrambled for tickets to become spectators, but now there are more ‘things’ to see and tickets are never sold out… DEPO is hosting Vahit Tuna’s second solo exhibition, a project that is built upon the themes and “unfinished” matters that continue to preoccupy the artist after his first solo […]
Curated by Matthias Flügge, an exhibition titled “Whole City,” dedicated to the German art photography movement and showing at Istanbul’s Milli Reasürans Art Gallery, takes its name from a series of works by Max Ernst. Instead of approaching the art of photography digitally, or through other technologically advanced means, works in the exhibition are pure, […]