A visitor looks at a 70 square meters wall painting by Turkish artist Ekrem Yalcindag at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, as part of the museum’s new exhibition “From Traditional to Contemporary”, February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Murad Sezer.
Art Daily on Istanbul
“Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art Explored at Istanbul Modern”
ISTANBUL.- İstanbul Modern?s new Exhibition, ?From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art?, will open in February 2010. Focusing on the relationship between art and the traditional, the Exhibition seeks to show how artists employ history in their construction of modernism. Curated by İstanbul Modern?s chief Curator Levent Çalıkoğlu, ?From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art? will be a exhibition in which modern and contemporary artists will take part. These are the artists who reinterpret information, which is traditional, in the context of a new language of expression.”
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