New culture hub in Beyoğlu brings art onto the streets
by Daily Sabah
ISTANBULMay 12, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Daily Sabah
May 12, 2016 12:00 am
Grand Pera, a new culture and arts center on Istiklal Avenue, will display artworks from young artists on the façade of Cercle d'Orient, a valuable historic building in the Beyoğlu district. Cercle d'Orient has the longest façade in Beyoğlu and has been registered as a first-degree historical monument since 1883. The front wall of the building will exhibit works from Carole Turner, Levent Morgök, Hakan Çınar, Uğur Çakı and Ayla Turan for Istanbul's natives and tourists. The motto of the event, "Beyoğlu, Once Again" and "Art, Once Again" aim to revive Beyoğlu's history of embracing art.
Grand Pera's general manager İhsan Salar offered insight into the project, and said the project is almost finished. "Our objective is to integrate art into daily life by placing installations by young artists in the showcases of stores located on the ground floor of the Cercle d'Orient building. Our intention is to bring these artworks not just to art lovers, but also everybody who passes by this building every day. We hope that our approach to art is welcomed by locals and will be embraced by other institutions." Salar concluded by thanking the artists whose works will be featured.
General Manager of the Labor, Art and Culture Foundation (ESKV) Remzi Buharalı said that the exhibition sets the tone for the institution's future projects. "The complex is taking art that brings meaning to life into the street."
American artist Carole Turner, whose work "Moon Dance" will be displayed in Cercle d'Orient, describes her work thus: "Art is a window to another world… It is a world through which the artist can send a message, but which the receiver can only understand through interpretation."
Artist Levent Morgök, a graduate of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Department of Painting, believes that the things we experience and the words we utter become something in the past once they happen, and they are condemned to be told to others in the past tense. He said he used figures in different layers in his artwork "Metropol" in order to convey this message. Hakkı Çınar says his work "The Rush of Living" as concerning the alienation of the individual, from which Çınar awakes memories through recollection in another work he calls "Awakening." Sculptor and painter Uğur Çakı said his work "High Speed" is about a journey, which begins to reveal the reality of the life we are living. Ayla Turan speaks about her work "Self-portrait." "I have always been the person who left pieces of her while leaving a place." The artist interprets different states of love in her other work "The Woman with Hairballs" and "The Man in Pajamas." However, her work "Hope" is a melancholic work, wherein the artist can only see hope in the eyes of children.
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