ISTANBUL MODERN

new works, new horizons

A museum is a home for art. It provides an alternative to the forces of consumption & production that we experience in our daily lives. As well as serving to protect, document and exhibit art, a museum also feels like a spiritiual place where art can live & breathe. Art knits together a complex web of relationships through the chronological, thematic and stylistic approaches that characterize exhibitions. A museum is the point where the viewer & the artist intersect. It is a safe heaven where art can establish itself. 

- Levent Calikoglu-

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 wonderful view from their terrasse

Bedri Baykam

I wish I had a harem - Bir Haremim Olsun İsterdim

- Why?

Because life is worth living despite of everything. And nowadays have a magical beauty. Everything is happening now and here, there is no “future”... Everything is now...

- Love

 

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Transformation - a view on chinese contemporary art

 

External growth of inner spirit
features artists that manifest the cultural memory formed by Chinese art from prehistoric times to our days

Spring, river & flowers on a moonlit night

- Zhang Rhoxu -

春江花月夜
　　（唐）张若虚
　　春江潮水连海平，海上明月共潮升。
　　滟滟随波千万里，何处春江无月明！
　　江流宛转绕芳甸，月照花林皆似霰；
　　空里流霜不觉飞，汀上白沙看不见。
　　江天一色无纤尘，皎皎空中孤月轮 。
　　江畔何人初见月？江月何年初照人？
　　人生代代无穷已，江月年年只相似；
　　不知江月照何人，但见长江送流水。
　　白云一片去悠悠，青枫浦上不胜愁。
　　谁家今夜扁舟子？何处相思明月楼？
　　可怜楼上月徘徊，应照离人妆镜台。
　　玉户帘中卷不去，捣衣砧上拂还来。
　　此时相望不相闻，愿逐月华流照君。
　　鸿雁长飞光不度，鱼龙潜跃水成文。
　　昨夜闲潭梦落花，可怜春半不还家。
　　江水流春去欲尽，江潭落月复西斜。
　　斜月沉沉藏海雾，碣石潇湘无限路。
　　不知乘月几人归，落月摇情满江树。