Art Gallery

New Proposals - New Propositions 13

10 June - 16 July 2005

This year, the thirteenth and fourteenth of the New Proposals-New Propositions exhibitions will be organized. The shows are organized in the summer months since 1998? Sometimes as a single exhibition and sometimes as a two-phase exhibition. New Proposals-New Propositions nevertheless seems to be achieving its goal: since the first organization, New Proposals-New Propositions exhibitions aim to be a kind of first stop for the young artists in Turkey, and today receives around one-hundred dossiers from all around the country. As the applicant dossiers (which increase in number every year) signify the potential of the young artists in the country, they also give us hints about the educational institutions that accommodate this artistic potential. In the works of the young artists, it is possible to trace the marks of their educational institutions, to investigate how their works overlap or conflict with the traditional structures of the institutions, and to find reflections of how the educational concepts of new institutions are shaped. On the other hand, these young artists certainly reflect an independent attitude in their own scope of creativity. As candidate-artists in a world where visual literacy becomes ever more important, they endeavour to put forth new works with a different voice, a different statement.

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