Gulsun Karamustafa
Gulsun Karamustafa was born 1946 BirthIstanbul, Turkey.
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Gülsün Karamustafa reflects on the sociopolitical and economic shifts of the past ten years and the accompanying move toward a global economy. As an artist she addresses cultural displacement and economic nomadism in a universal aesthetic language that allows for a multivalent reading of her work…
In her productive career, Gülsün Karamustafa has touched on a variety of issues with strong social repercussions in content. Just to name some of these: the cultural interstices brought by the newcomers from the Anatolian provinces to the metropolitan cities of Turkey, as expressed in their folkloric kitsch and the new musical genre of ‘arabesque’; the cosmopolitan cohabitation of communities and classes; the low-budget trade circulation which emerged around the Black Sea in the last decade; historical accounts and the deconstruction of historical Orientalism in European painting; the use of photographic images from the personal archive and the corresponding therapeutic effect of remembering, and so forth…
Le visage Turc
nce the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, the Turkish market of unskilled labour is increasingly being dominated by immigrants. The specific political conditions of migration and its motivations are depicted by the artist and film maker Gülsün Karamustafa by the example of a group of migrants in Istanbul: for “Unawarded Performances”…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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