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Bodys Isek Kıngelez’s fantastical models of African

‘New York's Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting the "extreme maquettes" of late Congolese sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez, who modelled futuristic African cities with recycled cardboard, colourful paper and Coca-Cola cans.’

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HERCULES ON RIDE

‘ Combining photographic elements with illustration and digital art, Emre Yusufi hypnotizes audiences with his visually impressive and theatrically bold art pieces. By merging elements from different time frames, Yusufi highlights the transformation of ideas over time. ‘ 

http://www.emreyusufi.com/

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Adrián Villar Rojas installs banquet of hybrid sculptures on roof of New York’s Met

'Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas has created a plaster-cast dinner party on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, featuring characters and objects brought together from across the museum's vast collection.'

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Parallel Motion - Single by Saruhan Batur

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'Born in Istanbul, producer/musician Saruhan Batur studied music in Istanbul Bilgi University. By the end of his music studies he joined experimental improvisation collective IBULORK (Istanbul Bilgi University Laptop Orchestra) by Tolga Tuzun’s invitation and did a series of concerts. After the graduation in 2011, he formed Turkish electronic music band FALSO with Kaan Duzarat and Bora Yucel which has quiet a reputation in Istanbul’s underground music scene. In 2012, he self-released ‘’Simple Forms EP’’ under the moniker of AUA and scored Azra Deniz Okyay’s short movie ‘’Little Black Fish’’. Following year he remixed L.A. based singer RYAT’s ‘’Object Mob’’ song from her 2012 album ‘’Totem’’ from Brainfeeder. In early 2014, he released an EP from Philadelphian electronic music pioneer King Britt’s TheBuddySystem label including remixes from King Britt and Ambrosia Filet and vocals by Mocassin Blade. Beside having worked as music director and booking manager for several clubs in Istanbul between 2004-2009, he also did radio shows for Dinamo FM and Radiofil.'

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Type / Dynamics - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

'The Dutch design studio LUST has created a new interactive installation for the exhibition ‘Type/Dynamics’ at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. ‘Type/Dynamics’ interacts with and comments on the work of graphic designer Jurriaan Schrofer (1926–1990) in an effort to revitalize recent design history....'

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Austrian artist Aldo Tolino’s human portraits are the outcome of a multi-step creative loop which goes along the lines of: shooting a portrait, printing it on paper, then creasing it, tucking it and folding it until a brand new facial expression is created before shooting the printed-portrait-turned-sculpture for the final result. During this process, the more you rearrange the shape of the triangle grid on the surface of the printed-portraits, the more facial expressions you generate. Every time Tolino photographs the geometrically folded three-dimensional sculptural-object, a new portrait of the same person is created. The result is a series of photographs that masterfully portray ''crumbled faces'’ that serve to open a dialogue between portraiture and sculpture.

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because I'm happy

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'Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal (whose lawn-pinching clothespin sculpture Ten/Skin you may be familiar with) created this fun installation (or is it more of a disinstallation?) where he transformed the white walls of the Nesrin Esirtgen gallery in Istanbul into his artwork. Peel, as the exhibit was called, seemingly cut into the walls of the space and, well, peeled the gallery ‘skin’ away in slabs that bent, slouched, and recoiled from the walls. '

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'Sibel Horada was born in Istanbul in 1980. After finishing at Robert College, she graduated from Brown University in 1993 with honors in Visual Arts. She continued her master′s degree in Art and Design at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. Horada has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Turkey. Currently, she continues her work in Istanbul.'

Sibel Horada

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Jeongmoon Choi’s UV Light Installations ‘Using string, UV lights, and black lights, Berlin-based artist, Jeongmoon Choi creates geometrical light installations that challenge the architecture of exterior and interior spaces. This piece is located outside of her most recent gallery show at Galerie Laurent Mueller.’

Jeongmoon Choi

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'The jury of the Nam June Paik Award 2012 – International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW) - praises the work of Cevdet Erek  as an ‘inspiring project which transforms the neutral architecture of the exhibition space into a fantastical and poetic place.'

SSS – Shore Scene Soundtrack is about mimicking the sea, or more generally about imitating a common natural phenomenon by using two hands and a piece of carpet. It was conceived as an ongoing experimentation with performance, memory, the body, technology, interactivity, instruments, nature and situation specificity.'

Cevdet Erek

Nam June Paik Award

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'CL:OC, by Grosse 8, is a light installation that sits smack dab in the middle of these trends. On one hand, it’s a giant, glowing, digital-clock display that you could read in the dark. On the other, you can actually hear it whir, as 28 motors drive a complex pulley system to rearrange cold cathode tubes to the proper time each minute. Creator Stephan Müller describes the digital-analog effect as “something between 0 and 1.”'

CL:OC - A Kinetic Installation

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Interactive Dance Performance with Live Music

'Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası and Vertigo Flying Effects had created unique vertical choreography'

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'Kitty Kraus takes a fresh look at Minimalism and Constructivism, with a goal that is only apparently perverse: to demolish an orderly world. But hers is merely an attempt to reinterpret history through emotion, to undermine and shake off dogma, to reveal the political subtext of form. Glass, ice, vessels of light and color, explosions and liquefactions — instabilities that mirror the growth and fragility of living organisms, the longing for perfection, and a failure that turns into poetry...'

kitty kraus - the control and drama of form

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'Sakir Gokcebag was born in 1965. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Art at Marmara University in 1987. He completed his master’s degree (1990) and doctoral degree (1994) at his alma mater. He won the second prize in the State Painting and Sculpture Competition in Ankara in 1991. In the same year, he got a scholarship from the Austrian government for Summer Academy in Salzburg in 1991. Gokçebag then received a scholarship from DAAD and went to Düsseldorf Academy between 1995 and 1996. He was awarded Markus Lüpertz Prize by Düsseldorf Academy in 1996. Gokçebag has had many solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.'

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Ian Burns Manipulates Shadows And Light Into Ghostly Graffiti

'Every kid seems to be fascinated by shadow puppets. When the electricity gets cut out and there’s nothing but your hands and a flashlight to entertain you, the person who can create the most intricate shadow (the ubiquitous bunny rabbit does not count) is king. By that standard, Australian artist Ian Burns is emperor. In his sculptures, Burns plays with light and reflection to spell out words and project images....'

Art of Ian Burns