Talk
January 13, 2016 / 19:00
The presentation entitled, “Can Nudity Be Translated?” invites the audience to establish a connection between some of the cornerstone works in the “Bare, Naked, Nude” exhibition and the legendary nudes in the history of French painting. Discovering the ties between artists, paintings, dates of executions, models, and poses brings to light the fundamental role Paris played in the modernization of art in Turkey in the final years of the Ottoman Empire and the early stages of the Republic. Reconsidering, through nudes, the hopes of planting the seeds collected from various Parisian art institutions in Istanbul and Anatolia, also changes are perspective on these nudes.
About Deniz Artun
Deniz Artun graduated from Middle Easter Technical University’s Department of Sociology in 1998. She completed her M.A. in cultural history at NYU with a concentration on the cultural history of France. While in New York, she worked at the Painting and Sculpture Division of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in 2000, she began her PhD in cultural anthropology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. As part of her doctoral thesis, she concentrated on artists that went to Paris from the Ottoman Empire and Turkey between 1850 and 1950. She published her research as, “Paris'ten Modernlik Tercümeleri" (Translation of Modernity from Paris), which was released by İletişim Yayınları. Artun has been running Galeri Nev Ankara since 2001.
Admission to talk with a reduced museum ticket (10TL). Free for Friends of the Museum. Please email resepsiyon@peramuzesi.org.tr to book your place. Please note that the talk language is Turkish.
Temporary Exhibition
Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting aimed to reveal the transformation from the Ottoman Empire into the Republican Era and how the few secretly made paintings at the turn of the 20th century created a new perspective for present times.
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Over the years of 1864 through 1876, Stanisław Chlebowski served Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul as his court painter. As it was, Abdülaziz disposed of considerable artistic talents of his own, and he actively involved himself in Chlebowski’s creative process, suggesting ideas for compositions –such as ballistic pieces praising the victories of Turkish arms.
You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
