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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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The sixth instalment of the Frieze Art Fair, the lucrative 21,000-metre sprawl of work from hundreds of galleries across Regent's Park, opens
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Frieze Foundation announced that it will curate and produce four new public art projects as part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale
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The artists that are taking part in Frieze Projects East are: Can Altay, Sarnath Banerjee, Anthea Hamilton & Nicholas Byrne, Gary Webb, and Klaus
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The outsized ambition, as well as frenetic, festive atmosphere around Salt’s opening felt very much in the spirit of Hüseyin Alptekin.
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Can Altay (b. 1975, Ankara, Turkey) is an artist living in Istanbul, Turkey.
His installations of videos, mappings, books and photographs
incorporate different forms of research of the urban environment.
Altay studies improvised architectures in the city, as well as
hidden structures of support, unauthorized systems of organization
and models of co-habitation. He further investigates the production
of ideas and notions of public space through “setting a
setting,” a body of works where he proposes spaces and
constructs for gatherings. The clashes and overlaps between
function and meaning, and unpredictable reconfigurations within
systems remain to be some of his main interests.
Altay has had solo exhibitions at The Showroom, London (2010),
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008), Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2006)
and Spike Island, Bristol (2007). His work has been included in
biennials in Istanbul (2003), Havana (2003), Gwangju (2008), Taipei
(2010); and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center
(USA), VanAbbe Museum (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), P.S.1 MoMA
(USA), and Platform Garanti (Turkey).
He is editor of Ahali: A Journal for Setting a Setting. Altay also lectures internationally and writes. He received his Ph.D. in art, design, and architecture from Bilkent University (2004), where he also completed his MFA and BFA degrees, in addition to his degree in Critical Studies from Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, Sweden.
Can Altay is represented by Arcade
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
