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Highlights of the National Pavilions in the Arsenale.
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ÇIN, a new work by Cevdet Erek, has gone on view at the Pavilion of Turkey at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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“ÇIN,” a new work by Cevdet Erek, will be presented at the Pavilion of Turkey at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia to be held from May 13 to Nov. 26.
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The 2017 Venice Biennale, opening on May 13, has revealed the list of one hundred and twenty artists participating in the international exhibition “Viva Arte Viva,” curated by Christine Macel.
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The Biennale of Sydney has announced the final list of 83 artists from 35 countries for the forthcoming 20th edition from March 18 to June 5, including an additional 13 artists and collectives whose participation is detailed below.
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“Put yourself in a curator’s shoes,” the Frieze New York Art Fair asks in a sticker-festooned pamphlet for kids, “what artwork would you display if you could curate your own booth?”
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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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Istanbul Modern is presenting a group exhibition titled “Neighbors -- Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond” as part of its 10th year celebrations, delving into contemporary art practices in Turkey and its surrounding regions.
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Named after the patron of Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation has, since 2001, dedicated it's efforts to promoting the visual arts
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The Part in the Story Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else is an exhibition that covers a lot of ground.
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Albert Einstein, when asked why time exists, answered “so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Some Eastern cultures perceive time as a coil
Read MoreIstanbul Modern is presenting a group exhibition titled “Neighbors -- Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond” as part of its 10th year celebrations, delving into contemporary art practices in Turkey and its surrounding regions.
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A new exhibition in Paris curated by Turkey's Adnan Yıldız delves into the relationship between the sky and the computer screen.
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Eight exhibitions that open around the world this week.
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Istanbul At least since Lucy Lippard organized the 1966 exhibition “Eccentric Abstraction,” artists have demonstrated that minimal, abstract forms
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Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1974, lives and works in Istanbul.
Cevdet Erek applies a variety of disciplines including architecture, mathematics and music to the making of his performance, video and installation works. His art is to combine their influence, to propose the essence of an original site-specific situation and subject, resulting in innately human reflections on time and space. For example in Avluda (in the courtyard) 3 projections and sound recordings present a composition that describes the pause in time and space of two unused courtyards located in an old university building in Istanbul. In Erek's video Studio, which is presented in a scaled-down, sculpted version of the studio where the original act took place, his hands release an embedded rhythm like an off-duty percussionist or wind player seen impulsively tapping their thigh. While in the performance SSS (Shore, Scene, Soundtrack), a translation of nature takes place via the act of stroking a carpet, a process of recording, interpreting and playing back, through the medium of humanity captures the essence of the sound of the sea as it laps the shore.
Erek's work and performances have been included in Out of
Place, Tate Modern, Level 2, London (2011);
Unincorporated, Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul (2010);
Tactics of Invisibility, Tanas, Berlin (2010);
Starter, Arter, Istanbul (2010); Another Country,
IFA, Berlin and Stuttgart (2010); Home Works 5, Ashkal
Alwan, Beirut (2010); Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo Gallery,
Istanbul (2010); Hand in Hand, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul
(2009); Unknown Territory, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
(2009); The Columns Held Us Up, Artists Space, New York
(2009); Avluda, 300 m3, Göteborg (2009); On the day I
fix a turbine to my belly, Lokaal 01, Antwerp (2009); New
Ends, Old Beginnings, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh and Bluecoat
Gallery, Liverpool (2008); Manifest Destiny, Extra
City-Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp; A Few
Retrospectives, Galerie Akıncı, Amsterdam (2008); Light,
Illumination and Electricity, Santralistanbul, Istanbul
(2008), Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architektur Museum,
Frankfurt (2008). Erek was on residency at the Rijksakademie from
2005 – 2006 and was awarded the Uriot Prize in 2005.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
