Artists in their time

Istanbul Modern’s collection exhibition, “Artists in Their Time”, focuses on how artists position their work and themselves within the concept of time. It suggests a conceptual field for examining, and reconciling, the links between an artist’s time and societal, cultural, natural and universal time. It unites artists from very different periods, geographies and disciplines around common themes. The exhibition will be available to visit until the end of 2016.

How does time serve works of art? is the most common question that artists continue to ask themselves. The works that are displayed in the exhibition reflects their own periods of time with the techniques and materials used plus the stories told.

Currently, I am obsessed with the thought of the possible movements of the future art. What I realize is that it is mainly the experimentation of the ideas that come up to your mind by harmonizing the facts of the society, using whichever material you like is OK as long as you are successful to achieve a unity. It is amazing how limitless - expandable it is! :)

Here are some of the works from “Artists in Their Time” exhibition..

Doug Aitken, BAD 2014 gives you the sensation of peering through a
kaleidoscope.

Burhan Uygur, "The Door" 1987-89 Mixed media on wood and canvas

A detail from "The Door"

Photograph prints of Yıldız Moran with archival pigment technique used
1955-57

Coffeehouse by Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, 1973
Acrylic on canvas

Feast at the prison by Semiha Berksoy, 1999

No.5 by Kemal Önsoy - Colors and shapes emerge from the debths

Fall of the Castle (Diptych) by Erol Akyavaş,1982
Recreating the stylized realism of Ottoman miniatures by using the geometric language of modern art.

Matt Saunders, Tree (Kuhle Wampe) (Curtain), 2014 C-print
He plays with the tree scene taken from Bertold Brecht's 1932 communist themed film Kuhle Wampe

Evening Traffic on Old Galata Bridge by Ara Güler, 1956
Silver gelatin print

Your Sola Nebula by Olafur Eliasson, 1967 is composed of 321 glass spheres

1553 by Taner Ceylan Oil on canvas
Inspired by Süleyman the Magnificent's wife Hürrem Sultan is a reference to the year
when Süleyman had his son prince Mustafa killed.