İstanbul Rotary Kulübü, 2010-2011 döneminde başlattığı “İstanbul Rotary Sanat Ödülü Yarışması ve Sergisi” programını, geçtiğimiz yıl itibarıyla, yeni bir yaklaşımla, “İstanbul Rotary Sanat Fonu”na dönüştürmüştü.
Yaşadığımız küresel salgının ağırlaştırdığı yaşam koşullarında daha da anlam kazanan bu girişim, ilk yılında farklı disiplinlerden 8 sanatçıya üretimleri için destek verdi.
Fondan destek alan sanatçılar Tayfun Serttaş, Mehmet Ali Boran, Eda Sütunç, Esra Oskay, İrem Tok, Ömer Paker, Zeynep Merve Çiçek ve Kıvılcım Güngörün oldu.
Bu yıl da, 25-40 yaş arası (1 Ocak 1982’den sonra ve 1 Ocak 1997’dan önce doğmuş̧ olan) sanatçılarımıza, projelerini hayata geçirebilmeleri için destek sağlamayı hedefleyen İstanbul Rotary Sanat Fonu eserlerin malzeme ve üretim yöntemleri kısıtlanmaksızın güncel sanatın her disiplininde üretime açıktır.
Fon için İstanbul Rotary Kulübü’ne başvuracak sanatçılardan, çalışmalarını örnekleyen yapıtların yer aldığı bir portfolyo ve fon projelerini anlatan bir başvuru dosyası istenecek.
Başvurular; Aydın Harezi, Ayda Elgiz Güreli, Ayşe Umur, Başak Şenova, Fatoş İrwen, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Işın Önol, İpek Duben, Murad Ardaç, Nural Denker ve M. Özalp Birol’dan oluşan İstanbul Rotary Sanat Fonu Seçici Kurulu tarafından değerlendirilecek.
Başvuruların, 20 Nisan 2022 tarihine kadar İstanbul Rotary Kulübü’ne iletilmesi gerekiyor.
Ayrıntılı bilgi için: https://www.istrotarysanat.com/basvuru.html
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We request the pleasure of your company on our special day. Participation will be limited due to social distance rules and precautions.
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TAYFUN SERTTAŞ
PİLEVNELİ Gallery
October 8 - November 22, 2020
PİLEVNELİ is pleased to present “Undetectable” - a new solo exhibition by Tayfun Serttaş between October 8 – November 22, 2020.
At least two people are required for one person to be free. In this context, freedom is neither an ideology nor a proposition. Individualization cannot be rewarded solely with freedom. The core of freedom is based on the asymmetry in social relations despite society itself.
Undetectable refers to a series of possibilities that are shaped by the reinterpretation of a phenomenon in microbiology in a social context. From the artist’s point of view, the period we spend between data, statistics, figures and polemics is the projection of the undetectability between the public strata. The virus plays a trick on the public order and the result has extensively deepened the ongoing crisis of social sciences that focus on the individual. While the pandemic brings along an obligatory individualization, it also brings together humanity with more common concerns than ever before. In today's world where the conceptual framework of public security, the freedom-authority balance and the state of emergency is being redrawn, the cult of personality is faced with a new deconstruction.
The modern individual is a permanent idler, a universal stranger. It does not follow the recipes of common behavior. Therefore, no system embraces it and cannot completely represent it. Individuals who differ from other social strata with their unpredictable characteristics do not promise obedience to the system in which they are positioned in. In this context, the individual is uncanny by definition. Today's populist oppressive regimes that have no choice but to promise sanctioned tribes, are the forerunners of an unprecedented soft oppression against individualization.
In oppressive regimes, artists go on an "indefinite vacation" period. They become ambiguous. Artists in Turkey never had the comfort of performing their practice and then retreating. They carried many invisible missions, including what art leads to, how to apply it, the subtleties of presentation and the responsibility of representation. In this context, there was the geography-specific fatigue of the artists, such as facing the problems caused / to be caused by production rather than production itself. Whereas, art could have approached its real meaning if all these procedures were overcome institutionally... We still do not know exactly what our practice will mean tomorrow. What we know is that as a method of resistance, we must maintain all our positions regarding the existence of art and persist in the search for truth.
Covid-19 was not caused by LGBT+ individuals. It emerged in an exotic market in Wuhan, China, as a result of man's excessive interference with natural life. It is thought provoking that in the 21st century Turkey, such a universal acceptance is not detectable. This is so engrossing that the universal adoption is not detected. Undetectable is dedicated to Turkey’s LGBT+ community, which has been subjected to systematic hate campaigns over the past months.
* The exhibition is on view at PİLEVNELİ Dolapdere.
For further information: nazyildiz@pilevneli.com
