Kutlug Ataman
dal 10/10/2002 al 1/12/2002
Segnalato da
PR - Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning/ CCAC
10/10/2002
Kutlug Ataman
Nikolaj Kunsthal - Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Long Streams. The retrospective exhibition Kutlug Ataman. Long Streams will present a total of seven works of which the first dates back to 1997. Kutlug Ataman holds up a mirror to all of us in his filmed collages of human fates. Through his acclaimed camera lens we see different individuals as they stage themselves in order to express their identities.
Long Streams
Life in the lense
This years major exhibition at Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art
Center, will present the works of internationally recognised Turkish
video artist and film director Kutlug Ataman. Kutlug Ataman (* 1961) has
made a name for himself at several international exhibitions, most
recently at Documenta 11 in Kassel. But in spite of the international
attention, this will be the first time his works will be shown in
Denmark.
The Danish audience now has the unique opportunity to see not only the
work from Documenta, but also his collected production up to now. The
retrospective exhibition Kutlug Ataman. Long Streams will present a
total of seven works of which the first dates back to 1997.
Kutlug Ataman holds up a mirror to all of us in his filmed collages of
human fates.
Through his acclaimed camera lens we see different individuals as they
stage themselves in order to express their identities. The people in
Kutlug Atamanss works are extremely talkative, their narratives go on
for quite a while ' and always about themselves. As in the film Never My
Soul about an
ex-prostituted transvestite in which we are invited to take a look at
this particular version of reality as it can be seen on six monitors. Or
in the video installation Women Who Wear Wigs in which we see four
different women who talk about why they wear wigs.
Real Kutlug Ataman fans can look forward to the over seven hours long
video installation semiha b.
unplugged. In this we meet the legendary Turkish opera diva Seminha
Berksoy who was born in Istanbul in 1910. The intense interview at one
and the same time reflects the birth of modern Turkey and one womans
attempts to understand her life in terms of love as well as art. With a
keen sense of the theatrical, Semiha Berksoy recites former roles, goes
through a number of costume changes and entertains us with stories about
her childhood, her parents and ' not least ' her lovers.
In the video installation The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read, currently
being shown at Documenta, we meet the lover of flowers Veronica Read who
barricades herself in her tiny flat with an enormous collection of
amaryllis bulbs. She tends to her flowers and at great length informs us
about botany in a both humorous and moving tale of desire and obsession.
This exhibition will also see the première of two brand new works, 1+1=1
and 99 Names. The latter work has been made specifically for the large
nave of the art center.
The exhibition will open to the public as a part of the Night of Culture
on October 11.
Kutlug Ataman. Long Streams is supported by the Kulturbro Foundation and
is a part of Kulturbro 2002.
Int he image:'The 4seasons of Veronica Read', 4screen video installation, london, 2002.
An exhibition catalogue will be published with contributions by lecturer
Rune Gade, American art historian Laura Hoptmann and Elisabeth Delin
Hansen, director of Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center
Nikolaj Plads
Copenhagen