Guests and Foreigners
Joseph Kosuth, the reknown artist of Conceptual Art conceived and realised an installation entitled "Guests and Foreigners: Rossini in Turkey" for Borusan Art Gallery which will be viewed from September 15th to October 28th.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, January 31, 1945 Kosuth was educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art (1963-64), The School of Visual Arts, New York City (1965-67) and The New School for Social Research ( anthropology and philosophy) (1971-72). He took faculty positions in the Department of Fine Art, The School of Visual Arts, New York City (19967-88); he was proffessor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg (1988-90) and at the Staatliche Akademie für Bildende Künste in Stuttgart (1991-97).
Served as a visiting professor and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions for nearly thirty years, including Yale University; Cornell University; New York University; Duke University; UCLA and CAL Arts; The Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Royal Academy, Kopenhagen; Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford University; Berlin Kunstakademie; The Royal College of Art, London; The Hayward Gallery, London; The Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna.
He received the Cassandra Foundation Award in 1968, Brandeis Award in 1990 and the Frederick Wiseman Award in 1991. In 1993 the French government homnoured him with the decoration and the title of a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In the same year, he received the Honour Medal of the Venice Biennale.
Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art and initiated language based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960's. His work has consistently explored the production and role of meaning within art. His nearly thirty-year inquiry into the relation of language to art has been manifested in installations, museum exhibitions, public comissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. Kosuth has been included in every major exhibition including five Documenta(s) and four Venice Biennale(s), including the Hungarian Pavillon (1993)
Joseph Kosuth lives and works in New York City and Rome, Italy.
At the end of the 70's Joseph Kosuth had a special recognition in Turkey. Young artists of the period were influenced by his ideas and work. He helped free them from the aesthetic burdens of early and late modernism. 30 years later, another young generation have almost the same expectations of that era. They want to be illuminated by experienced artists, to have a safe direction within the increasingly complicated art world and to absorb heterogene impulses of post-modern art. To the extent that the qualities and references of Conceptual Art are concealed in the oeuvres of today's artists, this exhibition will provide a ground for re-cognition and re-comprehension for the viewer. With his intertextual and emancipatory installations Kosuth reveals his political, social and cultural confrontations and transmitts the ideas of many intellectuals as well. The selected texts in "Guests and Foreigners: Rossini in Turkey" will doubtlessly engage the artists and viewers with their intertwined implications.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, January 31, 1945 Kosuth was educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art (1963-64), The School of Visual Arts, New York City (1965-67) and The New School for Social Research ( anthropology and philosophy) (1971-72). He took faculty positions in the Department of Fine Art, The School of Visual Arts, New York City (19967-88); he was proffessor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg (1988-90) and at the Staatliche Akademie für Bildende Künste in Stuttgart (1991-97).
Served as a visiting professor and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions for nearly thirty years, including Yale University; Cornell University; New York University; Duke University; UCLA and CAL Arts; The Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Royal Academy, Kopenhagen; Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford University; Berlin Kunstakademie; The Royal College of Art, London; The Hayward Gallery, London; The Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna.
He received the Cassandra Foundation Award in 1968, Brandeis Award in 1990 and the Frederick Wiseman Award in 1991. In 1993 the French government homnoured him with the decoration and the title of a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In the same year, he received the Honour Medal of the Venice Biennale.
Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art and initiated language based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960's. His work has consistently explored the production and role of meaning within art. His nearly thirty-year inquiry into the relation of language to art has been manifested in installations, museum exhibitions, public comissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. Kosuth has been included in every major exhibition including five Documenta(s) and four Venice Biennale(s), including the Hungarian Pavillon (1993)
Joseph Kosuth lives and works in New York City and Rome, Italy.
At the end of the 70's Joseph Kosuth had a special recognition in Turkey. Young artists of the period were influenced by his ideas and work. He helped free them from the aesthetic burdens of early and late modernism. 30 years later, another young generation have almost the same expectations of that era. They want to be illuminated by experienced artists, to have a safe direction within the increasingly complicated art world and to absorb heterogene impulses of post-modern art. To the extent that the qualities and references of Conceptual Art are concealed in the oeuvres of today's artists, this exhibition will provide a ground for re-cognition and re-comprehension for the viewer. With his intertextual and emancipatory installations Kosuth reveals his political, social and cultural confrontations and transmitts the ideas of many intellectuals as well. The selected texts in "Guests and Foreigners: Rossini in Turkey" will doubtlessly engage the artists and viewers with their intertwined implications.
