Resmi Görüs

The text below is from the book “Mission Impossible”, Galeri Nev Publications, Istanbul, June 1997, translated from Turkish by Fred Stark, edited by David Frankel, Zeynep Tenger
Part one of this interview was done in the spring of 1993. Three years later, using a transcript from those tapes and trying to remain faithful to the flow [...]

A Foreigner A Traveller
Vahap Avşar,
Gülsün Karamustafa,
Hale Tenger,
H.Alptekin/M.Morris,
Bedri Baykam,
Mehmet İleri
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 1993
The exhibition offers neither an exotic taste, nor conforms to predispositions, but it may nevertheless give certain clues regarding where the works come from. The works offer neither a fluent international reading, nor display ‘fantasy-mythological’ roots. Away from provincialism and outside imagined centers, they [...]

Short Stories / Play, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 2001
Artists: Fernando Arias Gaviria, Artemio, Davide Bertocchi, Iñaki Bonillas, Nathalie Bookchin, Tania Bruguera, Maya Churi, Alison Cornyn & Sue Johnson, Nick Crowe, Darío Escobar, Kendell Geers, Prapon Joe Kumjim, Marcello Maloberti, Ottonella Mocellin, Gabinete Ordo Amoris, Serkan Özkaya, Sener Özmen, Adrian Paci, Araya Rasjarmreansook, Josè Alejandro Restrepo, [...]

Catalog, 1992
Since 1987, Bedri Baykam’s works operate as a kind of repository. They review and exhaust the limits of the intelligibility of painting in paradigms of styles and currents.
In 1987 Baykam reused a number of Nineteenth Century European Paintings. Ingres’ Turkish Bath, and a juxtaposition of Gérome’s Steam Bath, and The Grand Bath at Bursa [...]

İsmet Dogan’s objects and paintings traverse each other’s territories. As the painting begins to resemble an object by Dogan’s idiosyncratic use of the frame, the object is treated as a painting and splashed with paint. The difference between them -one being a utilitarian object and the other an nonfunctional one- is reduced. Thus, these classical [...]