Istanbul exhibit presents miscommunication on canvas

Published in City BriefHatice Utkan Artist Bozkaya Aldaş, often perceived as today’s Fikret Mualla, will display his latest works at the exhibition “Ordinary stories.” “Ordinary Stories,” Aldaş’s seventh solo exhibition, will be on display at Piramid Sanat Gallery until Oct. 17. In the exhibit, Aldaş chooses to refer to the personal relationships in the daily […]

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Turkish artist presents ‘lost-and-found’ art

Published in City BriefHatice Utkan A creator of technological visual designs that present a different approach to the perception of “objects,” Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu is presenting a new personal exhibit at Alan Istanbul. The exhibition contains both technological and unconventional art. Handmade robots represent the technological era of the 21st century, while pairs of lost-and-found gloves, […]

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A breath of nature

Published in City BriefHatice Utkan Ormo Art Gallery is opening its new season with a solo exhibition from Gencay Kasapçı. The exhibition, titled “6.Ten Years,” will run through Oct. 9. The artist uses optic illusions and diverse colors in his works while also focusing on nature and its effects. While the objects, space and time […]

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INTERVIEW: Dice Kayek’s Logforest at the hippest city

Hatice Utkan Istanbul is the hippest city in the fashion world, according to Ayşe Ege, one of the creators of Turkish brand Dice Kayek.“Currently, Istanbul is in fashion,” said Ege. “We started designing 18 years ago and I remember that, when I said “Istanbul,” everyone remembered the movie Midnight Express.” However, she added, now this […]

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STARTING POINT: An Intercontinental Journey with a sculpture

Published in Hürriyet Daily News On Sept. 16 Istanbul witnessed a creative new project. German artist Christian Schnurer traveled inside his sculpture “Argonaut Mathilda.” He left Munich in September 2010, crossing 10 European borders, finally arriving in Istanbul, where he crossed the Bosphorus to the Asian side – to a new continent. This was the […]

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Contemporary art world collapses

The Guardian’s weekend supplement published a story about Andy Warhol works, but it was more than this. The main subject was a scandalous fraud in the contemporary art world. In 1962 just after creating his famous soup cans, Warhol began work on 100 wooden sculptures of packing containers: Brillo boxes. However, what was done in […]

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