TURKEY PAVILION TO PRESENT SARKIS WORK IN VENICE
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Aug 6 2014
ISTANBUL – Hurriyet Daily News
A new installation by the influential Turkish-Armenian artist Sarkis
will be presented at the Pavilion of Turkey at the 56th International
Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, to be held between May 9 and
Nov. 22, 2015. Curated by Defne Ayas, the presentation will take place
at a dedicated new location at the Arsenale as recently secured by
the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Ä°KSV) for the duration
of 20 years from 2014 to 2034.
A graduate of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Sarkis had his
first exhibition at the Istanbul Art Gallery in 1960. Throughout his
career, he has worked with various mediums and has been, since the
end of the 1960s, an icon of installation art in particular. His
works have been shown worldwide in important art institutions,
museums, and galleries, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York,
the Kunst-und-Ausstellungshalle in Bonn, the Louvre in Paris and the
Bode Museum in Berlin.
Sarkis was also part of “When Attitudes Become Form: Works – Concepts
– Processes – Situation – Information” (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969),”
Documenta VI and VII” (Kassel, 1977 and 1982), and the biennials of
Sydney, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Moscow, and Istanbul. Recently, he has
had solo in Turkey and abroad. He has been living and working in
Paris since 1964.
The curator of the pavilion, Defne Ayas, has been the director and
curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam,
the Netherlands, since 2012. Since 2005, she has been a curator at
Performa, the biennial of performance art in New York. In September
2012, Ayas co-curated the 11th edition of the Baltic Triennial of
International Art, to great acclaim.
The Advisory Board consists of artist Ali Kazma, associate professor
of Art History at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Art Burcu Pelvanoglu,
independent curator and art critic Cristiana Perrella, BahceÃ…~_ehir
University’s Associate Professor in history and theory of art and
visual culture Lewis Johnson and Yıldız Technical University art
and design faculty member Zerrin Ä°ren Boynudelik.
August/06/2014
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress