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TURKISH ARTIST GUNESTEKIN'S VIDEO PRESENTED IN ITALY
Cihan News Agency (CNA), Turkey
July 3, 2013 Wednesday
ISTANBUL (CIHAN)- Renowned Turkish artist Ahmet Gunestekin's video
"Bellek" (Memory) is being displayed at a group exhibition held as part
of Italy's Festival Dei 2 Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds), which
is marking its 56th year with a series of opera, music, theater and
other art events from June 28 to July 14 in the Italian city Spoleto.
Presented in the show "Sconfinamenti" (Trespassing) at the historic
fortress of Rocca Albornoziana, which houses the National Museum of
the Duchy of Spoleto, Gunestekin's video focuses on crimes against
humanity committed in Turkey since the killing of Armenians in 1909
in the southern province of Adana.
The video, which was updated by the artist to include recent incidents
in the country, also tells about the Gezi protests, which started on
May 28 in protest of government plans to demolish a park in Istanbul's
Taksim Square and have claimed the lives of four people; the explosion
of twin car bombs that killed more than 50 people on May 11 in the
Reyhanli district of the Mediterranean province of Hatay; and the
Uludere air strike, which cost the lives of 34 people in the Uludere
district of the southeastern province of Sirnak on Dec. 28, 2011.
The video is also being presented as part of Gunestekin's newest solo
exhibition "Momentum of Memory" in Venice at the Arsenal Docks.
The exhibition included in the festival features works by New
York-based Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat, Italian painter
Michelangelo Pistoletto and South African artist William Kentridge
as well as other acclaimed names from the international art community.
Achille Bonito Oliva, the curator of the show, says the exhibition
invites visitors to experience and observe the dialogue between the
different languages of art.
(Cihan/Today's Zaman) CIHAN
From: Baghdasarian
Cihan News Agency (CNA), Turkey
July 3, 2013 Wednesday
ISTANBUL (CIHAN)- Renowned Turkish artist Ahmet Gunestekin's video
"Bellek" (Memory) is being displayed at a group exhibition held as part
of Italy's Festival Dei 2 Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds), which
is marking its 56th year with a series of opera, music, theater and
other art events from June 28 to July 14 in the Italian city Spoleto.
Presented in the show "Sconfinamenti" (Trespassing) at the historic
fortress of Rocca Albornoziana, which houses the National Museum of
the Duchy of Spoleto, Gunestekin's video focuses on crimes against
humanity committed in Turkey since the killing of Armenians in 1909
in the southern province of Adana.
The video, which was updated by the artist to include recent incidents
in the country, also tells about the Gezi protests, which started on
May 28 in protest of government plans to demolish a park in Istanbul's
Taksim Square and have claimed the lives of four people; the explosion
of twin car bombs that killed more than 50 people on May 11 in the
Reyhanli district of the Mediterranean province of Hatay; and the
Uludere air strike, which cost the lives of 34 people in the Uludere
district of the southeastern province of Sirnak on Dec. 28, 2011.
The video is also being presented as part of Gunestekin's newest solo
exhibition "Momentum of Memory" in Venice at the Arsenal Docks.
The exhibition included in the festival features works by New
York-based Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat, Italian painter
Michelangelo Pistoletto and South African artist William Kentridge
as well as other acclaimed names from the international art community.
Achille Bonito Oliva, the curator of the show, says the exhibition
invites visitors to experience and observe the dialogue between the
different languages of art.
(Cihan/Today's Zaman) CIHAN
From: Baghdasarian