10th Edition of Contemporary Istanbul was tremendous!

The 10th edition of Contemporary Istanbul presented amazing artworks of both international and national artists and had a record number of visitors this year. During my visit, I had a chance to meet the nice people of Lazardies Gallery UK. They were very welcoming and had a great booth, displaying some of the great works of Bansky, Miaz Brothers, Ian Francis, Todd James, Oliver Jeffers and many others. One of their nicest members Victoria gave me all the details of these beautiful Works. 

IAN FRANCIS

A Monster / Plane Is Raised From An Indoor Pool, 2015

Oil, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite and Charcoal on canvas

35 4/5 × 50 in (91 × 127 cm)

 

JONATHAN YEO

Sagitta, 2008

Collage and oil on wooden panel, framed

13 2/5 × 18 9/10 in (34 × 48 cm)



BANKSY

Kissing Coppers, 2005

Acrylic and spraypaint stencil on canvas

49 9/10 × 40 1/5 in (126.8 × 102 cm)

 

LUCAS PRICE

Upon Awakening, 2015

Oil and acrylic on canvas

61 4/5 × 69 7/10 in (157 × 177 cm)

 

MIAZ BROTHERS

Everything I Can Be, 2015

32 3/10 × 18 1/10 × 15 7/10 in (82 × 46 × 40 cm)

 

MIAZ BROTHERS

Lady BD, 2015

Acrylic on canvas

63 × 51 1/5 in (160 × 130 cm)

 

ANTONY MICALLEF

I Shit Diamonds, 2011

Oil, acrylic, lipstick and paper collage on linen. Framed in a pink box frame

56 7/10 × 56 7/10 in (144 × 144 cm)

 

MIAZ BROTHERS

Nude 1, 2015

Acrylic on canvas

78 7/10 × 39 2/5 in (200 × 100 cm)

 

OLIVER JEFFERS

Nothing To See Here Part 3, 2014

Acrylic on canvas

22 × 28 in (56 × 71 cm)

 

TODD JAMES

No Time Like Lunchtime, 2015

Acrylic on canvas

40 1/5 × 48 in (102 × 122 cm)

Lazardies were also offering some Works of JR, which he applied on the sides of old buildings of  Istanbul this year.


JR

Wrinkles of the City, Ali Alagoz, Istanbul, 2015, 2015

Ink on wood

39 × 39 in (99 × 99 cm)




Wrinkles of the City - Istanbul

Here are some other works that I fell in love with...

Mike Dargas

Thierry Dussac

Gregory Watin

Francoise Ben Arous

Donadini

Seda Hepsev

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.