Out from Nowhere
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]