Artist: Shanti Masud
Cast: Clémence Poesy, Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Lucas Harari
France, 60’, 2014
French with Turkish subtitles
Intimacy and entertainment, melancholy and madness, modesty and desire, birth and disappearance. Four girls, four boys. This phantasmagoria dramatically animates the faces of men and women in a fantastical and poetic atmosphere; lyrical and passionate, between Earth and Cosmos, along the way towards their Metamorphoses. Metamorphoses made its debut as a video performance presented in last year’s solo show at Hors Pistes 2014.
Ali Sami is born in Rusçuk in 1866, and moves to İstanbul. Because his family is registered in the Beylerbeyi quarter of Üsküdar, Ali Sami is also called Üsküdarlı Ali Sami. He graduates from the Mühendishane-i Berri-i Hümayun in 1866 and becomes a teacher of painting and photography at the school.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.
Jean-Léon Gérôme is among the most renowned artists of the second half of the 19th century. One of the most fervent advocates of academic painting, Gérôme declared a personal war against modern movements such as Impressionism.
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