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Light
Millennium Proudly Presents...
Celebrating
the 81st Anniversary of the Turkish Republic in New York
Sakir
ECZACIBASI: Radical Departures
Photography
Exhibition
"Eczacibasi
. . . is a master of visual alchemy. Each photograph is
an oneiric venture with infinite possibilities of transmutation.
It goes beyond shape, contour, pattern, and symmetry to
create a sensuous, self-renewing mystical experience."
--Talât Sait HALMAN
Opening
Reception of the exhibition: On
Wednesday, November 3, 2004*
Time:
6:00 to 8:00 PM
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A Presentation by: Prof. Edward Foster on "Sakir
Eczacibasi: Radical Departures" exhibition.*
* A Mini Guitar Concert by: Emre
Exhibition
Dates: October 28 to November 10, 2004
Exhibition Hours: 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Also the exhibition will be open: On
Sunday, October 31, 2004 from 2 to 7:00 PM.
Hosts
of the exhibition: The Hon. Omer ONHON, The Consul
General of the Republic of Turkey &
Mr. Levent DEMIREL, Attache of the Turkish Culture &
Tourism Office.
Place:
821 United Nations Plaza
2nd Floor, Turkish House
NYC, NY, 10017 (corner of the 46th Street and First Avenue)
Organization: Incorporation with Light Millennium
& New York Turkish & Tourism Information Office;
Co-organizers: Prof. Edward Foster & Bircan
Ünver
Sakir
Eczacibasi is among the premier photographers of his generation.
His acute attention to color and motion distinguishes
his work from modernist predecessors. Their concern with
formal, static properties was superceded in the second
half of the twentieth century by a search for ways to
indicate the transitoriness of all things. In this, Eczacibasi's
work must be included among the few which both succeed
and delight.
Eczacibasi's
photographs involve radical departures from such modernist
tendencies as the "straight" photography advocated
by Paul Strand and Edward Steichen, the photojournalism
of artists such as Dorothea Lange, and the realist mode
of Edward Weston, among others. Eczacibasi's work often
presents a perpetual swirl of gorgeous color. His celebrated
photographs of windows and doors are radically
different from the architectural studies of earlier
photographers. In place of their obsession with geometric
form, one finds an almost
delirious pleasure in vibrant color, contrast,
and emotionally charged texture. Eczacibasi's work suggests
the influence of the Impressionists, but the greater influence
may be film and a desire to convey its fluidity in the
"static" medium of photography.
Sakir
Eczacibasi was born in Izmir in 1929. Educated at Robert
College and the University of Landon, he became a journalist
in the 1950s. In 1955 he began working for Eczacibasi
Group, becoming Chairman of its Executive Committee in
the 1980s and Chairman of the Board in 1993.
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his many other accomplishments, Eczacibasi has translated
and published volumes of works by George Bernard Shaw
and Oscar Wilde. Eczacibasi is also the Chairman of
the Board of the Istanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfi
(Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts), an organization
which sponsors festivals of film, theater, classical
music, jazz, and art and which, during his tenure
on the board, has returned Istanbul to the position
it held for centuries under Roman, Byzantine, and
Ottoman rule -- namely, as one of the world's foremost
centers for the arts. |
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The exhibit offers a forty-year retrospective of the photographer's
work from the early 1960s to the present, including numerous
images of neighborhoods, buildings, and individuals in
Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Ankara, and other cities and towns.
The photographs demonstrate Eczacibasi's clear eye for
daily life in Turkey together with portrait studies of
such well known Turkish figures as the artist Avni Arbas
and the writer Yasar Kemal.
Sakir
Eczacibasi: Radical Departure" titled photography
exhibition will also exhibited during the 25th Convention
of ATAA between December 10-12, 2004 in DC.
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About
Prof. Edward FOSTER
Formerly the poetry editor of MultiCultural Review, Edward
Foster is the founding editor of Talisman: A Journal of
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Talisman House, Publishers,
and Jensen/Daniels, Publishers. A professor of English
and American literature at Stevens, he is a former visiting
professor at Drew University Graduate Faculty and Beykent
University (Istanbul) and was a Fulbright lecturer at
Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey, and at the University
of Istanbul. The co-director of the Russian/American Cultural
Exchange Program, he has been the recipient of various
grants and awards from Columbia University, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the USIA arts program, the New Jersey Historical
Commission, Choice, the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts, the Fulbright Commision, the Greve Foundation, and
the Fund for Poetry. He is a widely published essayist
and poet, and his poetry has been translated into, and
published in, many languages. For further information:,
see the Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors,
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series, The Writers
Directory, The International Writers and Authors Who's
Who, and Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series.
For more
information:
http://www.stevens.edu/humanities/People/Faculty/Edward_Foster/index.html
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About
The Light Millennium:
The
Light Millennium/Isik Binyili is an alternative multi-media
platform that publishes ideas and experiences freely (without
any censorship, within the publishing policy of the organization),
and produces and broadcasts television programs as well
as organizes events relating arts, literature-poetry,
media, music... in order to foster a global positive energy
and connection among all peoples by encouraging intellectual
productivity and communication in each and every social
layers globally.
The
Light Millennium is a public benefit organization, and
was incorporated on July 17, 2001 with tax exempt status
#501 ( c ) (3) based in New York. For more information
about the Light Millennium: http://www.lightmillennium.org
Contact
for the exhibition Co-Producers:
Prof.
Edward Foster & Bircan Ünver
E-mail:
contact@lightmillennium.org or
TALISMANED@aol.com
Tel:
1-347-251-3442 or/
1-201-215-5399
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Opening reception date has changed from November 2 to
November 3.
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NEXT
EVENT:
RUMI:
SOARING TO ECSTASY
A Poetic Presentation with Slides and Music
by
Prof.
Talat HALMAN Turkey's first
Minister of Culture
and
Defne
HALMAN, Actress
Introduction
by
Clifford JACOBS
Date:
November 18, 2004
Place: 821 United Nations Plaza
2nci Kat; Türk Evi
NYC, NY, 10017
(At
the corner of the 46th Street and First Avenue)
Organizasyon:
Light Millennium
Language: English
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