THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTUAL ART IN TURKEY Conceptual

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTUAL ART IN TURKEY

Conceptual Art An art more concerned with the concept or ideas that the artwork is dealing with than traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Important terms: Text / language based Dematerial Ephemeral Institutional critique Self reflexifity Installation art "Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it. " Lawrence Weiner Joseph Kosuth One and three chairs 1965 California Peace Tower 1966. Various artists The Art Workers Coalition 1969 -1971 Lawrence Weiner Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, 2005. Piero Manzoni 1961 Artist’s shit Piero Manzoni 1961 Living Sculptures

Gainsborough Mr. & Mrs. Andrews 18 th century Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917. Photograph by Alfred Steiglitz Pre conceptualists? ? ? Grosz and Heartfield’s The Middle. Class Philistine Heartfield Gone Wild. 1920 The issue of all art being conceptual!!!! Allen Jones Table Sculpture 1968 Gülsün Karamustafa ‘My God You Know It Better Than Me’ 1981.

Altan Gürman 1935 -1976 Important work: Statistics series 1963 -1965 Montages 1960 -1970

Sarkis Zabunyan 1938 – ‘My memories are my country’ http: //www. dailymotion. com/video/xalcab _sarkis-site-istanbul-museum-ofmode_creation

‘New Tendencies’ exhibitions 1977 – 1987 every 2 years organised by Academy of Fine Arts. From 1980 ‘Artists of Today’ exhibitions. New Tendencies 1977 ‘A Cross Section of Avant-Garde Turkish Art 1884 -1988 1990 ‘B’ Conceptualists organised their own ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘D’ exhibitions in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993 1987 – first New Tendencies 1981 Istanbul Biennial 1993 ‘D’ http: //www. sanalmuze. org/paneller/index 06. htm

Şükrü Aysan 1945 - Ubi et Orbi No: 9 (1985), No: 14 (1986), No: 11 (1985) Pentür 1, 2, 3, 1977

Füsun Onur 1938 --- Kavramsal ve Görsel İmgeler, 1983 Resimde Üçüncü Boyut İçeri Gel, 1981 http: //www. channels. com/episodes/show/12298843/F-sun. Onur-Silent-Music-en-? page=2#/episodes/show/12298843/Fsun-Onur-Silent-Music-en-? page=2 Herhangi Bir İskemle, 1991

Ayse Erkmen http: //www. art-in-berlin. de/incbmeld. php? id=1530 http: //video-de. tomshardware. com/video/i. Ly. ROoaf. Yud-. html Uyumlu Çizgiler, 1985 K-A-İ-D-E, 1983 Here and There 1989 Moment Shipped ships 2001

Gülsün Karamustafa - Çifte Hakikat http: //www. myvideo. de/watch/7760496/Guelsuen_Karamustafa_ueber_ihre_Ar beit_in_der_Ausstellung_quot_tanzimat_quot_Augarten_Contemporary_Wien Çifte Hakikat 1987

Yılmaz Aysan Tomur Atagök Yalnızım, 1983 Simetrik Sunak, 1983

Rahmi Aksungur Balkan Naci İslimyeli Doğum, 1977 İsimsiz, 1977

THE CONTEMPORARY TURKISH ART SCENE Video re. 2010 capital of culture http: //www. travelchannel. co. uk/videoguides/feature. asp? ID=172&Title=Istan bul

Bienniale Art events and Art Fairs Venice Bienniale begun in 1895 Documenta considered most important Art Event – Held every 4 years in Kassel Germany Taipei Bienniale http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v= x. Iz. JCe. TDOBw&feature=related http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ly 6 C 5 y. Yc 5 h. E Calendar of international Biennials and other regular art exhibitions updated: April 2011 23 October 2010 -28 February 2011 8 th Shanghai Biennale China 13 November 2010 -13 February 2011 Prospect. 2 New Orleans, USA 12 December 2010 12 February 2011 XII International Cairo Biennale Egypt. . . . FOR COMPLETE CALENDER SEE: http: //www. universes-in-universe. de/car/ecalendar. htm

Istanbul Modern founded 1987 http: //vimeo. com/3072606 Istanbul Biennial initiated 1987 http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=x. Iz. JCe. TDOBw &feature=related http: //www. dailymotion. com/video/xakjyg_marcus-grafon-the-history-of-the-i_creation

Art galleries/project spaces and sponsorship by banks, educational institutes and private individuals Akbank Sanat Arter Gallery Borusan Arter Depo Platform Garanti Proje 4 L Santralistanbul Mimar Sinan University Apartman Gallery K 2 Arts Centre Izmir Galerist. . . . Apartman projesi initiated 1999 Akbank Sanat founded 1993 Platform Garanti initiated 2001 Proje 4 L established 2001