Interview with Hüseyin Alptekin
Dulcinea Gallery Catalog, 1999, Istanbul
Vasif Kortun:
I would like to start out by touching on the issue of the reappropriation of Courbet. In the exhibition we see a reproduction of a Courbet painting that confronts us in a monumental manner. This is definitely due to the fact that it is a piece whose location was unknown. [...]
On Hüseyin Alptekin
Dulcinea Gallery Catalog, 1999, Istanbul
I’ve known Hüseyin Alptekin since August 1990. We were introduced to each other in the context of a teaching engagement. We often worked, wrote and taught together. Throughout the years, it became increasingly difficult for me to abstract his art from his teaching, writing and other ways of being in the [...]
A Sleepy Biennial
6th Istanbul Biennial Review in Flash Art, 1999
The curator of the Istanbul Biennial, Paolo Colombo, writes in the slim text to the exhibition catalogue that, “While art may convey a wealth of information about the norm, I instinctively turned to those artists who practice a kind of selfanalysis and who expound feeling and sensibility.” This [...]
Bülent Sangar
Stills, Cuts and Fragments Exhibition Catalog, Stuttgart IFA, 1999
The artists in the exhibition were Candeger Furtun, Gülsün Karamustafa, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Neriman Polat, and Bülent Sangar.
Suspend all belief, cultivate a fine disregard of all mores unless you derive advantage from them, uphold your double-standards with the panic of a cat in a corner with nowhere to [...]