"Curating Contemporary Art" Seminar Program
Seminar: Art, Architecture and Cities From An Anthropomorphic Perspective
Speaker: Emre Zeytinoğlu
Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
This speech will be a continuation of the topic entitled "Culture and Ideology of Art", which we have discussed on November 14, 2024.
In the first part, we had focused on "optical theory" and "perspective" while talking about the overlaps and differences between the Arab Abbasid world and the Florentine Renaissance.
The "vision theory", which came to the fore with the "optical" approaches of Ibn al-Haytham (10th century AD) in the Arab Abbasid world, evolved into the perspective of the Florentine Renaissance (15th century AD) and ultimately formed the basis of "Western" painting. .
“2nd” will take place on December 9, 2024.
Chapter 2 will continue in the same context and this time will focus on the relations between "Western" painting and architecture.
The main points of the speech are determined as follows:
1- “Anthropomorphic” approaches (geometric proportions) in “Western” art and architecture
2- Architecture in the Islamic world (“optical theory” and geometry)
3- Separation of “design” and “construction” processes in “Western” architecture
4- Different understandings caused by "design" processes in "Western" architecture.
5- New trends and cities in architectural design and art
About Emre Zeytinoğlu
In 1980, he graduated from Mimar Sinan University Ceramic Department. Since 1986, his works were shown in numerous exhibitions. From 1988 published articles about art in different journals and multi-authored books. At Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Marmara University he lectures “Art, Theory and Criticism”, “Contamporary Art” and “Ideological Texts and Art”. He is making documentaries for various television channels. He undertakes curation duties for various institutions and private galleries. He made radio programs on art and football culture. Some of his documentaries about archeological settlements on different television channels, and some of them are still broadcast on Iz TV.
Some of his published books are:
“Art, Somethings and Criticism” (Corpus Publications, 2017), “Impotence of Power and Art” (Ayrıntı Publications, 2014), “Leave A Mark Space / Distance and Contact” (Baksı Foundation Publications, 2013), “Incongruous Comments On Art” (Bağlam Publications, 2008), “Sports in the Sleeping Bag” (Telos Publications, 2004), “The Accomplices Of Art” (Bağlam Publications, 2003 / Belge Publications, 2016), “At The Boundaries Of Concept” (co-authored with Ali Akay, Bağlam Publications, 1998) and “Deconstruction Of A Urinal” (co-authored with Ali Akay, Gallery Urart Publications, 1994 / Minör Publications, 2013).
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 650 TL.
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.