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ART GALLERIES IN TURKEY AUTUMN/WINTER 2004 Including Istanbul, Ankara and Bodrum
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ISTANBUL -
- Chore of Frames
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- An auction of fine Ottoman embroideries
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- December 11, 2005
- sale: 4pm
- reception: 3pm
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- Venue:
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- ARMADA HOTEL
- Ahirkapi Sok
- Yenikapi
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- Tel 0212 638 1370
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| - 225 pieces including:
- Top: Bosnian çepken jacket, early 20th century. Est YTL250
- Bottom: uçkur, 19th century. Est TYTL250
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- ITKIB Auctions
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ISTANBUL -
- Bilge Alkor
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- November 3
- December 11
- 2004
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- Venue:
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- IS SANAT KULTUR
- KIBELE GALERI
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- Metro:
- 1st Levent station
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ISTANBUL -
- Belkis Balpinar
- Kader (Fate)
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- November 22
- - December 22
- 2004
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- Venue:
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- G-ART GALERI
- G-Mall
- Kucuk Ciftlik
Dolmabahce- Istanbul
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- Tel 90-212 296 0876
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- Next to the Luna Park
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| - New work from the designer who turned the art of kilim weaving on its head.
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ISTANBUL -
- Can Goknil:
- Kader (Fate)
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- December 1-31
- 2004
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- Venue:
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- MILLI
- REASURANS
- ART GALLERY
- Tesvikiye Cad 43-57
- Tesvikiye
- Istanbul
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- Tel 90-212 230 1976
- fax 90-212 230 8608
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- 2 minutes from
- Tesvikiye Mosque
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| - Can Goknil interprets the role of fate in a new series of paintings created over the last four years.
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ISTANBUL -
- Ahmet Oran
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- November 22, 2004
- January 1, 2005
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- Venue:
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- Mozaik
- Dereboyu Cad 78
- Ortakoy
- Istanbul
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| - Working both in oil and acrylic on canvas and lithograph-aquatints, Ahmet Oral's work is meditative, expressive and abstract. They have found a suitably dramatic setting in Mozaic, a vast warehouse space devoted to designer furniture (Vitra, B&B Italia, etc) behind the Toyota showroom in Ortakoy. An excellent catalogue published by Mosaic and Mas accompanies the show.
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- >> A characteristic example of Ahmet Oran's current work recently purchased by Lentos, the Museum of Modern Art, Linz.
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ISTANBUL -
- Betul Aydiner:
- The Forty Roses
- of Yesilkoy
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- December 14, 2004
- January 5, 2005
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- Venue:
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- GALERI ODA
- Firin Sokak
- Tesvikiye
- Istanbul
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- email:
- baydiner@hotmail.com
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| - Each of Aydiner's forty roses of her home town of Yesilkoy, a seaside suburb of Istanbul is a flower, or a woman, whichever seems most appropriate at the time, she says.
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ANKARA -
- Inci Eviner
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- December 3, 2004
- January 5, 2005
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- Venue:
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- GALERI NEV
- Gezegen Sok 5, 06700 GOP, Ankara
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- Tel 0312 437 9390
- fax 0312 436 3947
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| - Inci Eviner, one of Istanbul's most talented artists, is currently artist in residence at the ISCP, New York.
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- 'Filled with elaborate organic forms and populated by quirky human/animal hybrids, her pen-and-ink drawings and watercolors are often whimsical and occasionally harrowing.'
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- - Art in America, January 2004
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ISTANBUL -
- Ozdemir Altan
- Sami Solmaz
Filiz Azak
Sergio Saez-
- Dec 11, 2004
- Jan 12, 2005
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- Venue:
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- GALERI ARTIST
- Ayazma Cad
- Fulya, Besiktas
- Istanbul
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- Tel 90 212 227 6852
- fax 90 212 258 0932
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| - Top: Photograph by Sami Solmaz, inspiired by Maurice Cornelis Escher
Middle: Painting by Filiz Azak, a young Izmir- and Berlin-trained Turkish artist
Bottom: a vivid landscape by Bilbao-born Sergio Saez Ojea
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ISTANBUL -
- Esra Sakir
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- Goethe Institute
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- December 23
- January 14
- 2005
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- Venue:
- GALERI DURER
- Galip Dede Cad 85
- Tunel
- Beyoglu
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| - Milan-based, Brera Academy of Art-trained watercolourist.
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TEXTILE GALLERIES |
ISTANBUL Textiles MEHMET ÇETINKAYA GALLERY Küçük Ayasofya Cad,
Tavukhane Sok 7
Sultanahmet
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| - Daniel Schaffer, editor of Hali, described this new gallery as the first major private textile gallery in Istanbul in Cornucopia no 27. Formerly the Maison de Tapis, hidden away in the Arasta behind the Sultanahmet mosque. Noted particularly for its Kaitag, Ikat, and other Central Asian textile art
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- Fax 0212 638 1553
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