Two Exhibitions
dal 12/5/2015 al 25/7/2015
Segnalato da
12/5/2015
Two Exhibitions
Pera Museum, Istanbul
Cecil Beaton presents portraits of artists, actors, writers, intellectuals and royalty from between 1920s to the 1970. Grayson Perry : the exhibition reflects the artist's unrelenting fascination with issues of the everyday, of religion, class, and identity.
Cecil Beaton: Portraits
curated by Terence Pepper
13 May - 26 July 2015
One of the most significant and multi-faceted photographers of the 20th century, Cecil Beaton’s (1904-1980) captivating portraits will be exhibited for the first time in Turkey at Pera Museum.
The exhibition focusing on Oscar winning costume designer Cecil Beaton is curated by Terence Pepper, the Senior Advisor on Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and will include portraits of artists, actors, writers, intellectuals and royalty from between 1920s to the 1970s, from the collection of Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Studio Archive.
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Grayson Perry: Small Differences
13 May - 26 July 2015
The works of outstanding contemporary artist and 2003 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry (b. 1960) will be exhibited at Pera Museum, including tapestries, ceramics and prints.
Organised in collaboration with the British Council and curated by Linsey Young from the British Council’s Visual Arts Team, the exhibition reflects the artist's unrelenting fascination with issues of the everyday, of religion, class, and identity. Well-known for his transvestite alter ego "Claire", Perry's largest single body of work to date, The Vanity of Small Differences, composed of six tapestries from the British Council Collection, will also be exhibited.
Image: Cecil Beaton
Opening: Wednesday 13 May 2015
Pera Museum
Mesrutiyet Caddesi 141
Istanbul Turchia