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Euroart's Residence Programme

Dr. Kubilay Akman

EuroArt is full of fresh news, comments and articles again with the new issue. Everyday we are recieving your nice comments on our magazine and this is one of the basic motivations for us to continue this voluntary project. I would like to take your attention to the “residence programme” of EuroArt. This programme is open for all the students, young professionals related to arts and ambitious to progress in the contemporary art world. You should send your CV to our email address and after the selection we will invite the successful applicant to Istanbul. more...

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Snapshots of The Decay Of Empire

Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum

Robert Kushner

Mike Nelson's brilliant installation insinuates itself into the very heart of urban decrepitude, a public market space the Lower East Side of New York City, a building abandoned, empty, peeling, slowly descending into ever increasing entropy. Even before any artistic intervention the building itself is a metaphor for Nelson's dystopian world view. Built as an idealistic replacement for the Lower East Side's pushcarts and vendors in 1940, this market complex was just a little too late for the thriving period of the this immigrant neighborhood. By 1995 this section of the Essex Street Market became an underused artifact and was closed. Ripening, marinating, waiting for Nelson's unique process of art making. more...

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The Phases Of Vietnamese Art

From "Vietnam Contemporary Art", 1996, By The Hanoi Fine Arts Publisher

1995 marks the 70th year of existence of Vietnamese painting. From 1925 to 1945, the first epoch of the history of Vietnamese painting coincides with the history of the Fine Arts College of Indochina (FACI) because it was that college which created conditions for the birth and development, vigorous until now, of Vietnamese painting... The principal promoter of the programme concerning the fine arts was Victor Tardieu (1870-1937) and Josheph Inguimberty (1896-1971). Victor Tardieu was a painter having profound knowledge of Oriental art. His oil paintings were extremely simple in form and quite tasteful in colors, more...

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Precision Optics / Optical Illusions:

Inconsistency, Anemic Cinema, and the Rotoreliefs

Dr. Michael Betancourt

Marcel Duchamp's comment is very strange when one considers the number of his works that involve the distinctly retinal phenomena of optical illusions; these works, produced mainly in the 1920's, he termed "precision optics." Optical illusions are an important part of his work because of their unusual characteristics: they present multiple 'interpretations' which cannot all be 'true' at the same time, but which are nevertheless 'correct' ways to see the work. They allow him to incorporate a systematic destabilizing of vision in the system which he attempted to create in the 1910s, and which was presented in more...

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States of Mona Lisa

Oğuz Erten

Leonardo Da Vinci, who is a leading figure in most respected masters of world's art history, with no doubt achieved this fame by the works he achieved. Apart from his works, today Leonardo's scientific studies on various areas are known to the intellectual circle. Alongside his artistic drawings and drawing on mechanics and anatomy, he also made plant drawings and made notes of every new type of plant he discovered. Leonardo was curious about every thing either natural or artefactual, and achieved a great body of knowledge, that most men of his time could not, by using his unsparing strength to explore. more...

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Overcoming the Epistemological Break:

Francis Bacon and Jean Baudrillard and the Intersections of Art and Theory

Dr. Gerry Coulter

The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is of importance to contemporary thought because it shares with contemporary theory important insights concerning the real. Bacon understood, as did thinkers like Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), that we never know the real, merely the appearances behind which it hides. rt, for Bacon, was about feeling and sensing until an appearance could be rendered which stands in for the real. According to this view, the simulation – the painting – is understood as more real than what we see. It is these characteristics of Bacon’s work more...

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The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, USA 18th September 2007–6th January 2008

The exhibition presents the Museum's entire collection of Dutch paintings (ca. 1600–1800) in approximate order of acquisition, from the founding purchase of 1871, to the major gifts and bequests of the 1880s through the 1940s, and finally to the strategic accessions of the 1950s onward. Reflecting how the more...

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Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum

Paris, France 5th October 2007-7th January 2008

As a preview to the opening of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, this exhibition at the Louvre presents a selection of masterpieces from the Aga Khan remarquable collection of Islamic art. everal folios from the most famous 16th-century Iranian manuscript, Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, more...

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Millais Exhibition at the Tate Britain

London, UK Until 13th January 2008

Millais Exhibition continues until January 2008 at the Tate Britain. Millais was the greatest painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which burst upon the British artistic scene in the mid-19th century. His magnificent jewel-like paintings have shaped our vision of Victorian womanhood, and more...

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1st Athens Biennial 2007 / Destroy Athens

Athens, Greece 10th September-18th November 2007

Biennials and large-scale periodic exhibitions constitute a sizeable part of the production and distribution system of artistic products, an instrument of the economic strategy of the world-wide cultural industry, and a vehicle for the development of cities. Moreover, it has by now been observed that in order to produce more...

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Return of Buddha. Masterpieces of Chinese Art from Chinese Museums

St. Petersburg, Russia 16th October 2007 – 13th January 2008

The exhibition in the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace at the State Hermitage Museum has been timed to coincide with the Year of China in Russia. Three Chinese museums are participating in the exhibition including the Qingzhou City Museum, Tianjin City Museum, and Shandong Provincial Museum. more...

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Katie Paterson and Andrew Stahl Exhibitions

London, UK

Matthew Bown Gallery has opened concurrent exhibitions by Katie Paterson and Andrew Stahl. The shows run 8 November-5 December, 2007. Matthew Bown Gallery is at 11 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PJ. Tel. 020 7734 4790 or 07770 555610. Gallery opening times are Monday-Friday 1.30-6, Saturday 12-4. more...