09-01-2010

30-01-2010

Turkey, Istanbul
CDA PROJECTS İstiklal cad. No:163 Mısır Apt. K:2 D:5 Beyoglu

Posted by: gokhan-bagisoglu

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Play@CDA, an exhibition of young artists’ interpretations of the concept of “play” will be on view between 09 – 30 January, 2010 at CDA Projects in Istanbul.

Play@CDA explores the subject ’play‘ as an activity of free will. As the famous artist Louise Bourgeois said, “The artist remains a child who is no longer innocent, yet cannot liberate himself from his subconscious. The expression of his terror is self-involved and pleasurable.” Play@CDA will question the adult perception of the artist, in other words, the perception of the child who cannot liberate himself from his subconscious, and his reactions to the responsabilities and rules of adult life, then will leave them aside in order to explore the nostalgia towards the courage and clear perception of childhood.

Participating artists include Alper Demir, Çagdas Erçelik, İbrahim Koç, Fırat Neziroğlu, Gönül Nuhoğlu, Rajesh Ram, Seydi Murat Koc and Ardan Özmenoğlu and their personal reflections on the notion of game. Through the exhibition, the rituals and themes of quotidian life that we are supposed to take seriously come back at us in the form of games, toys and eventually as a joke.

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