Contemporary Istanbul 2010

Long time no see ! From November, 25th to November, 28th, there is the Contemporary Istanbul Exhibition here gathering 37 galleries from abroad (mainly Germany and the U.K. but also from Iran), and 43 galleries from turkey, showing 2,000 works by 420 artists.

I wasn't expecting it to be that great. You should go if you're around and have some time to spare. It's at Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center, Rumeli Han (Lütfi Kırdar Uluslararası Kongre ve Sergi Sarayı).

Nils Karsten

2 Virgins
2009
Print - Edition of 5
72 x 72 inches

Panayotis Terzis

Pan Ray
Graphic Novels / etchings on paper
11 x 13 inches
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November 17th
Poster / Silkscreen on paper
12 x 16 inches

Nicolas Touron

Giraffe
2008
Polished Aluminum
120 x 60 x 36 inches

Nancy Chunn

30 Front Pages : September 1996
1996
Ink and Pastel on Paper
119 x 75 inches

Marilyn Lerner

Snakes and Ladders
2007
Oil Paint on Wooden Panel
48 x 36 inches

John Newman

Left : Red Sweater Fossil
2005
Wool, straw, cast polyester resin, wood, rope, acqua resin, armature wire, papier maché, wood putty, enamel paint
10,5 x 21 x 10,5 inches
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Center: Pink with Thorns
2001
Japanese Paper, papier maché, plaster, foam, wood, rubber, steel, flocking, ink
16,5 x 9,5 x 4,75 inches
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Right: With A Blue Bubble
2001
Blown glass, painted bronze, sisal, Japanese paper, papier maché, plaster, foam, acqua resin, chalk, pastel
19,5 x 14 x 9 inches

Erik S. Guzman

Icarus : If He Made It
2009
Aluminum, dc motors, spring, timing pulleys and belts, 1000 Watts of lights, microprocessors
60 x 36 x 36 inches

Eric Rhein

Fly Leaves - Installation of 24
(From Leaves, an AİDS Memorial)
1999-2005
Wire and Book Pages
51 x 117 x 2 inches (each one is 15 x 12 x 2 inches)














#11 : Abbott The Fire Painter























#21 : Blue Eyed Mark

Elif Uras

Laissez-Faire
2008
Iznikware, Polychrome underglaze on Quartz
19 x 12 inches























Polo Loco
2008
Iznikware, Polychrome underglaze on Quartz
19 x 12 inches























The Cover-Up
2008
Iznikware, Polychrome underglaze on Quartz
19 x 12 inches

Dominick Rapone

Death of the Sea Captain Numero Due
2009
Silk Screen, Hand Painted Gold
22 x 15 inches

Daniel John Gadd

Change
2008
Oil on Canvas
14 x 11 inches

Christopher Saucedo

Family-Portrait, in Exact Weight and Volume (with photograph)
2007
Dimensions Variable, Photo is 48 x 48 inches

Andrés Barsuto Portillo

Caguamas
2007
Broken Glass and Epoxy Putty
8 x 7 x 8 inches























Homo-Sapiens
2008
Broken Glass and Epoxy Putty
7 x 8 x 7 inches

Amy Wilson

I Loved How We Communicated with Each Other
2008
Watercolor, Walnut ink, Pencil on Paper
12x9 inches

100m of Existence

Excellent work by Simon Hoegsberg. He took people's picture (178) and added them together on this huge print (100m x 78cm). Tagline says "We're All gonna Die - 100 meters of existence". The photos were taken in the course of 20 days in Berlin from the same spot. Go here and play with the slider.

eboy at Milk

Tonight was the opening of a new art gallery in Istanbul called "Milk". They opened with an exhibition of artists called eboy. It wasn't very special for me since we have three huge posters in the office but it was still cool to witness events like that in Turkey.

Books

I fınally got my books I ordered from the Internet.



First of all thanks a lot to my friend Noah Scalin for signing his book SKULLS and sending it to me. Holidays are approaching, it's a great gift for everyone. SKULLS is a gathering of some skulls Noah did for his project Skulladay where he created one skull, every day for one year. You can buy it through IndieBound, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or Powell's Books. It has a nice embossed cover by the way and I would recommend it to anyone.






Second book is "New York September 11". A hardcover book with photos taken by photographers of the Magnum Agency. I had seen this book during an exhibition in Istanbul at the Museum of modern Arts and I really liked some of the photos in it. Like the one from photographer Susan Meiselas of the sculpture park near the WTC covered with debris.






The third one is from artist Shepard Fairey, E Pluribus Venom (hardcover). The title could be translated as "Out of many, Poison". This book gathers some of the artworks Fairey produced and presented at his exhibition in the summer 2007 at the Jonathan Levine gallery.
E Pluribus Venom is derived from "E Pluribus Unumi" (Out of Many, One), a motto adopted by the U.S. Government appearing on U.S. currency. In his work, Fairey questions the symbols and methods of the U.S. and of the American dream and also those who oppose blind nationalism and war.
Fairey uses many different styles as currency motifs, blend of Art Nouveau, revolutionary propaganda styles to support pacifism.