Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Exhibition “TRUTHS and MIRAGES” – Video Art from Turkey

Exhibition “TRUTHS and MIRAGES” – Video Art from Turkey

7 November – 23 November

Opening – 19

.00hr, 6 Shipka Street (2nd floor) – Sofia


Thanks to the collaborative work of Mrs. Gonul Nuhoglu on the Turkish part and Dimitar Grozdanov, the Bulgarian audience will see 19 authors who work in the field of video art and unconventional forms in Turkey. The exhibition will open on the second floor of the gallery on Shipka Street 6 and will definitely cause interest and analysis on the part of the general public.

Contemporary Turkish art experienced a stormy development, a part of the authors, trained and exhibiting in Europe and America turn to national problems in order to showcase the commonly human. Actually it can be said that Turkish contemporary art, especially video art in Turkey is social with a stress on the universal values of the concept.

This demonstration of creative thought of video artists is the first of its kind in Bulgaria. No, not that there haven’t been video festivals, but this time we meet a very strange occurrence, whose energies come from within but mostly from cosmopolitan problems. This is not chance because a part of the authors live outside of Turkey and those who are from Istanbul for example are actually inhabitants of a unique and supranational mega polis. It can be said that this is video art of the dialogue of the inner dialogue which comes through regardless of whether the videos tend to be more documentaries or artistic. Here we must mention that in Turkey itself apart from the Istanbul biennial and a few museums of contemporary art more and more private galleries and centers are gaining recognition whose interest is solely focused on current artistic thought adding to that the interest of collectors towards video art we can confirm that the artists of Turkish dissent live in an environment which favorably stimulates their creativity- there exists competition and provocation, but also in space where the ideas will be popularized. Another peculiarity of this exhibition is the professionalism and the quality of these films- from their shooting to their montage and the addition of sound. This conclusion can serve as a challenge for Bulgarian video artists.

The exhibition “Truths and mirages” gives us the opportunity through a form of expression to create the truth of ourselves and to freshen our mirages of the world.

Dimitar Grozdanov
Artists:

1-
AYŞE LİU
2-
BAŞAK KAPTAN
3-
ELİF ÖNER
4-
ERGİN ÇAVUŞOĞLU
5-
EVRİM KAVCAR
6-
FERHAT ÖZGÜR
7-
GÜNEŞ TERKOL
8-
HATİCE KARADAĞ
9-
KEZBAN ARCA BATIBEKİ
10-
MEHMET ALİ UYSAL
11-
ÖZGÜR ÖZLEM SULAK
12-
YENER PINARBAŞ
13-
KEREM OZAN BAYRAKTAR
14-
MEHMET VANLIOĞLU
15-
AHMET ALBAYRAK
16-
NEZAKET EKİCİ
17-
SEFER MEMİŞOĞLU
18-
EVRENSEL BELGİN

Curator
Gönül Nuhoğlu

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