editorial

Arts in the Crossroad: Money or Revolution

Dr. Kubilay Akman

Every professional from the sectors such as finance, industry, fine arts, Etc. and citizens of all nations are talking about such a big “crisis” threatens “us”. Thanks to global economical processes, crisis of America has become a “universal” crisis almost threatening other galaxies too, as if they are also inside a “free market” and the domiciled ones are using money like our societies. more...

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Being an Art Platform...

Dr. Kubilay Akman

EuroArt Web-Magazine has been an art platform for artists, art lovers and critics since its foundation in 2006. We have followed our principles in consistency from the first day up to today. Representing the “under-represented” ones is one of our important principles and we strive to realize this in every new issue. The summer issue is very colorful, expresses all diversity of contemporary arts and also shows out this sensitivity: providing an expression channel to under-represented art scene. This is the difference of EuroArt: You may see news, articles and reviews on the “centers” and “peripheries” of the art world equally. For the next issue we are preparing a surprise for you, based on this principle. Enjoy your reading. We wish a summer full of arts… more...

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BROADER HORIZONS

Dr. Kubilay Akman

As a bridge between the different faces of Europe our magazine continues its mission. Euroart is the independent, free, inspiring and critical art media of our region... The economic inequalities eventually find their reflections in the artists' world. Should we accept without any critical process what has been produced in terms of arts in the 'central' countries? Does the globalization period not provide a proper environment to 'other' art scenes to be represented in a more equal way in the universal art world? If we compare the arts of today to early levels of modernity we must admit that the conditions are providing a more equal basis to all artists more...

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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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The Divine Spirit Of Aesthetic Expression

Dr. Kubilay Akman

Contemporary art is in the tendency of reducing art into a reflection of our modern societies and their daily lives. The divinity of aesthetic expression is disappearing in the postartist's works. In this dark picture to be an artist seems easier than anything on the world for some persons. The concept of "postart" is defined and criticized brilliantly by Donalt Kuspit. His pioneer works opened a rich and critical path for us, all the art critics, artists and audience around the world. I am proud to inform the EuroArt readers that Donald Kuspit joined to our writers for this issue. more...

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Art and Societies

Dr. Kubilay Akman

Art is always one of the most influential sectors in the societies. The power of images, words and works of art could be stronger than anything else in the society. When we look at through this perspective, the artists are responsible of what they do or do not do. Art is a palace, a refuge, a prison, heaven or hell every now and then. I am sure that readers or artists could match these pretty abstract words with the right samples from their own life experiences or from the art history. While art has a valuable position in societies, every institution and individual should ask to themselves, whether they do their best for progression of the art world. more...

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EuroArt with you…

Dr. Kubilay Akman

EuroArt Magazine’s influence in the art scene is increasing so fast and we are happy to see that although this is just our second issue, we receive very positive messages and contributions from readers, artists, art dealers, scholars and curators based on the principles that we had described at the first issue. We are also proud that, in spite of our being very young as a new publication, we have managed an important mission as being sponsor to a prestigious contemporary art fair, Art Bosphorus 2007, Istanbul. Our support to outstanding art institutions, organizations, events, etc. will go on. EuroArt is aiming to be the critical art media for all European countries. more...

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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...

article

The Mortal Photographs at The Divine Altar

Dr. Kubilay Akman

American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin (Brooklyn, New York, 1938) provides tiring images with the lightest expression. We are coming face to face with the complicated problematic clew on life, death, art history, religions, body, pain and pleasure while watching his works of art. As my Spanish colleague Joan Fontcuberta stated (the editor of Photovision magazine) in this quarter century the world transformed from the “absurd” age into the “horror” age. Certainly the contagion of American style extremenesses through mass media has a big role about this transformation. We do not surprise to the new 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...

interview

Sculpting the Beauty

Interview with Rahmi Aksungur

Dr. Kubilay Akman

I would answer by emphasizing principally my native resources; and I have often asked myself why. I am speaking of an environment in which one becomes aware of dozens of new things each day, of İstanbul, of Anatolia. We live in a cultural milieu of immense wealth and a very wide range. And what’s more, we have become so familiar with it. I am more impressed by the abstract and the physical values of the land we live on. I believe that making new discoveries each day, some of which lead one to more in-depth quests, lends greater excitement to my life. These are the reasons and as for examples, they can be a timber gate of an inn, carved in the kündekari * style of workmanship, the mass and spatial dimensions of Seljuk architecture or more...

interview

On Chris McGinnis’s Art

Dr. Kubilay Akman

"Well, Initially I was attracted simply to the hard edges and diagonal forms that are found within any urban architecture. However, After I began to paint and study architecture, I noticed a more intimate connection with certain spaces as opposed to others. This led me to explore the idea of personal attachment and memories that could be triggered simply by seeing a familiar building. I then began to study novelists and philosophers such as Marcel Proust and Gaston Bachelard who have contrived similar theories through sound, space and other senses. " more...

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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...

interview

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...