30 April Wednesday Visiting Hours: 10:00 - 19:00 Free admission for students
Koudelka: Crossing the Same River follows the legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka on his final major project, Ruins, as he journeys through the archaeological remnants of the Mediterranean. Inspired by the ancient philosopher Heraclitus' saying, "No one crosses the same river twice," the film explores themes of change, time, and the relationship between memory and the visual world.
Blow-Up tells the story of Thomas, a successful fashion photographer living in London. As he goes about his daily routine, capturing fashion shoots and ordinary moments, he accidentally photographs a mysterious event in a park. Upon enlarging (blowing up) the images, he begins to suspect that his pictures contain clues to a murder.
In this workshop, to explore the fluidity of ink and its effects on surfaces, children apply ink to different surfaces, such as photo paper, textured paper, and glossy paper, by spraying, dripping, and printing techniques to create various layers of ink. Then, they complete their works by making interventions with pencils on their chosen sketches.
On April 23rd, National Sovereignty and Children's Day, in this workshop where traditional shadow puppetry techniques are learned, and fun shadow puppets are designed, children draw a sea creature they imagine in a jointed way inspired by Karagöz figures. At the end of the workshop, the children transform the figures, which they decorate with colored gelatins, pieces of tulle and their imagination into puppets using scissors and knives, and bring their imagination to the stage by animating the puppets they have designed on the shadow screen.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes a curatorial text by Alistair Hicks titled “Bughouse Chess: Bughouse Truth”, delving into Marcel Dzama’s visual language and influences, an insightful interview with the artist conducted by Ulya Soley at his studio in Brooklyn, New York enriched by photographs taken by Civan Özkanoğlu, as well as a comprehensive text by Ezgi Bakçay titled “I Dreamed I Woke Up”
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes Serhan Ada’s curatorial text titled “Much is to be done, alas, time!” and Esra Özdoğan’s text offering a thorough look at Samih Rifat’s photographs titled “Samih Rifat: Before the Death of the Author”, Enis Batur’s commentaries on his poems “Bard of Overlooked Poems”, “In Pursuit of Lost Beauties” by Celal Üster on Samih Rifat’s translations, as well as texts by Orçun Türkay,
The publication accompanying the exhibition features Kinga Rózsa Hamvai's curatorial text and Kerem Ozan Bayraktar's essay, "I Love Order but I Can't Stand It," which takes its title from Vera Molnár's words. Bayraktar's text explores Molnár's practice alongside the historical context of algorithmic art.
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