editorial

New Year, New Vision…

Dr. Kubilay Akman

As EuroArt staff, we are happy to greet Eıropean art scene with our 1st issue. EuroArt has the aim of being the critical art media of Europe with the support and contribution of artists, curators, art historians, art writers, critics, art dealers, gallery directors, etc. EuroArt is ready for this purpose in the New Year as provide you a new vision/perspective. more...

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Andy Warhol: Living And Dieing With The Radical Liquidation of Art

The Diaries, 20 Years After

Dr. Gerry Coulter

Andy Warhol, who died twenty years ago on February 22, 1987 at age 58, kept a diary for the last decade of his life. The final entry was made five days before the gall-bladder surgery from which he would not recover. It was published two year’s later with an introduction by its editor and Andy’s long time friend, Pat Hackett (who transcribed his almost daily entries over the telephone). Andy’s diaries contain the private details of his thoughts and experiences – the ones he wanted us to have after his death. A well managed and edited diary can be an excellent source of publicity in the after-life – and this one is. more...

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Thirty Three Principles for a New Sociology of Art

Dr. Kubilay Akman

I. Today we have arrived the level where we can redefine the concepts concerning art after radical transformations and turbulences of the 20th century. Today art waits to be defined. Art and theory have gone hand to hand for a long time. During this interactive companionship theory trickled into art and art leaked into theory, shadows have mixed into each other. In this environment of indefiniteness the explanatory power of theoretical approach weakened and had a crisis. It must be highlighted now that theory is an effort to understand and to explain. Sociological/theoretical approach more...

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Anti Technologies of Resistance

Alexander Brener & Barbara Schurz

In the beginning of 1999 we published a little book called What to do? 54 Technologies of Resistance Against Power Relations in Late-Capitalism (in Vienna, and before that in Moscow.) This book is a collection of a number of semi-anecdotes and semi-reflections about the possibilities of political and cultural resistance under the condition of a globalized market and multiculturalism. The centre of our examination were so-called technologies of resistance: familiar and traditional methods of political struggle and cultural resistance, as well as individual 'transgressive' techniques. On the one hand we more...

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The Sacrificial Aesthetic:

Blood Rituals from Art to Murder

Dr. Dawn Perlmutter

The concept of the "sacrificial esthetic" introduced in Eric Gans's Chronicle No. 184 entitled "Sacrificing Culture" describes a situation in which aesthetic forms remain sacrificial but have evolved from a necessary feature of social organization to a psychological element of the human condition. Gans concludes that art's sacrificial esthetic is essentially exhausted as a creative force and argues that the future lies with simulations, virtual realities in which the spectator plays a partially interactive role. His most significant claim is that "This end of more...

interview

Faces in Faces

Interview with Spanish Painter Antonio Santin

Dr. Kubilay Akman

"In my recent series painting harmony has indeed a crucial presence. I mean, harmony understood as the balance between opposites. According to that, between light and shadow exists a void, and I’m on the end just freezing images of the souls of those who are crossing the same bridge with me, from darkness to light or the other way around. I use painting as an exercise of approaching the faces of those around who represent for me an enigma. Beauty or ugliness, aggressiveness or victimization, me or you… The whole world could be reduced to opposite poles. " more...

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The Myth That is Our Life…

Interview on Maya Gonzalez’s Art

Dr. Kubilay Akman

" I received very little formal art training. I mostly have studied on my own. The work of Diego Rivera moved me a great deal because he used art as a way to claim and celebrate Mexican history and cultural heritage. Which can be challenging in a "mixed" culture: indigenous and colonizer/Indian and Spanish. He used the power of the visual image to connect people. It felt immediate and relevant to me. I believe this also spoke to the part of me that is bi-racial. I am Mexican on my father's side and a European mix on my mother's side. His work felt very embodied to me. The way he portrayed women more...

art agenda

London Art Fair

London, UK 17th–21st January 2007

London Art Fair will take place from 17th–21st January 2007 featuring100 leading UK galleries showing museum-quality Modern British work alongside the best of Contemporary art. The Fair encompasses Modern British masters such as Ben Nicholson, William Scott, LS Lowry, Patrick Heron, more...

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Art Miami

Miami, USA 5th-8th January 2007

Art Miami enters its 17th year with renewed vitality after a rigorous selection process that has refined the overall participation base this year, including many new galleries from Europe, Asia and the United States. Although Art Miami will continue to feature some of the most important modern and contemporary Latin more...

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The National Fine Art & Antiques Fair

Birmingham, UK 18th - 22nd January 2006

The National Fine Art & Antiques Fair is to be staged at the NEC, 18th - 22nd January 2006 and will accommodate approximately 100 Exhibitors offering for sale the very best in Fine Art, Antiques and Contemporary Art. This prestigious Fair will once again be staged in the ever popular Forum more...

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Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594)

Madrid, Spain 29th January – 13rd May

Nacional del Prado is organising the exhibition "Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594)" which will include around 60 paintings and drawings loaned from European and American museums and institutions. The exhibition will be the first monographic exhibition devoted to the artist since the one held in Venice in 1937, more...

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The Seventh Annual Seattle Print Fair

Seattle, USA 13th&14th January 2007

Once again in Seattle, eighteen select fine art dealers from around the country will come together in one location to exhibit original prints and other works on paper. The seventh annual Seattle Print Fair will provide the opportunity to meet knowledgeable print experts and to discuss original prints from the 15th more...

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ARTE FIERA Discovering the Latest Trends in International Art

Bologna, Italy 26th-29th 2007

ARTEFIERA ART FIRST is a unique event where visitors can explore the latest trends in the world of modern and contemporary art through the proposals of more than 200 leading international galleries. At the same time it is a major opportunity to directly experience art in the exhibition centre and in the more...

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Rembrandt the Draftsman/Prints and Drawings

Paris, France 20th October 2006 – 8th January 2007

For the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), the Louvre presents a unique collection of drawings by the Dutch genius, along with fourteen etchings, and a painted self-portrait. Curator(s) : Peter Schatborn, conservateur émérite du Cabinet des dessins du Rijksmuseum, more...

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The National Museum of Bosnia And Herzegovina

Sarajevo, BIH

The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded in 1888 and is the oldest among the modern cultural and scientific institutions of Western type in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A line of historical events influenced its establishment. A number of individuals and groups had for a long time prior to more...

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Venice-Istanbul

İstanbul, Turkey 8th October 2006 – 2nd February 2007

The İstanbul Museum of Modern art is happy to announce its second international exhibition, "Venice-İstanbul," a selection of works from the 51st Venice Biennial which will take place between October 18, 2006 and January 28, 2007, and is made possible through the support of Türk Telekom. The Venice more...

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"Genghis Khan and his Heirs - The Great Mongolian Empire"

İstanbul, Turkey 7th December 2006 – 8th April 2007

Sabancı University's Sakıp Sabancı Museum will be hosting the "Genghis Khan and his Heirs - The Great Mongolian Empire" exhibition between December 7, 2006 and April 8, 2007. The exhibition, jointly organized by the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland-Bonn, more...