Resmi Görüs

ArtsAsiaPacific, March - April, 3008
Born in 1957 in Ankara, Turkish artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin died of a heart attack in his Istanbul studio on December 31, 2007. A towering figure, Alptekin was known for his generosity, wit and intelligence. His personal and artistic dictums included Democratic Luxury; Modest Optimism; Ornamentation without Aesthetics; Global Mockery; Mythology [...]

The decoded conversation with Dan Cameron, curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and director of the 8th Istanbul Biennial at the Yapi Kredi Cultural Center Sermet Çifter Gallery.
September 4th 2003
Vasıf Kortun: Dan Cameron is going to give other interviews and panels on the Biennial. This is going to be [...]

Out from Nowhere
Bülent Şangar
Halil Altındere
Canan Şenol
Neriman Polat
Aydan Murtezaoğlu
Vahit Tuna
Hakan Gürsoytrak
Centrem Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, Schiedam, Leiden
The Netherlands, 1999
The following texts are not edited. They were notes for the curator of the exhibition, tools for him to check the translation from Turkish to Dutch. Think of them as loose drafts.
The discipline and the presentation of the body [...]

XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, (exh. cat.), Sao Paulo 1998
Vasif Kortun / Is there an ethics of appropriation, and how does that apply to the appropriationist? What does the cannibal defecate?
Hüseyin Alptekin/ There is no ethics in appropriation, only an intention. The instinct of appropriation is to admit, to like and admire (love and hate, [...]

Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros.Roteiros
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, (exh. cat.), Sao Paulo 1998
Halil Altindere
Shuka Glotman
Khalil Rabah
Bülent Sangar
Dis/appearance:
the slash between distances
Leaving one’s own Middle East collective state of mind and linking with others stimulates emotional and instinctual waves of experience. Dense socio-cultural layers and lines devise the region. They force singular acts, and compel [...]