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TIME TO FUTURISM FOR THE EARTH
BIONIC MODELS WORLD BIPOLAR DAY EMERVIELLE BY SERAP ENGİN
Hande ŞEKERCİLER
BICO STORE INTERVIEW SEMA MAŞKILI
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artness contemporary TIME TO FUTURISM FOR THE EARTH Mankind, who struggled with corona pandemic problems starting from Wuhan, which we call global disaster today, and continuing his journey in the universe, survived by the first panic. Although many of the surrealist approaches they left behind are merciless, we need to know that humanity has passed into the digital age after the ages of new decades that a period that we can no longer return to the past ... We share this successful transfer with you on this issue. THE SAKIP SABANCI MUSEUM
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GLOBAL ART MOVEMENT : STIGMA ART RESIDENCY PROGRAM WILL REALIZED IN ISTANBUL WITH PLUME PACOTILLES AND TANIA BOHUSLAVSKA BY BIPOLAR PROJECTS.
İS HOSTİNG THE MOST COMPREHENSİVE EXHİBİTİON İN Let's not deny that every TURKEY FEATURİNG RUSSİAN AVANTinstitution is obliged to speak with GARDE, WHİCHYou SHAPED this responsibility. know THE that ART WORLD the THEthe 20TH CENTURY. journey we took startedİN from period when our magazine, which carries out social and mental health activities, contributes to the universe through art. While the same missions continue, we named an opportunity for this journey, which our content artists have transformed with this period ... We have been renewed with a futuristic approach in this transformation of our professional transformation. Now, we all have more responsibility for the future. In this context, an article about our interview with bipolar artist Sema Maşkılı and his works is included in this issue.
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The future anxiety that emerged when the digital age is said andWITH reflected in AURORA. the art productions of COLLABORATION ARTE futurist thinkers has covered all humanity. The developments, which will accelerate and will take place ISRAEL BASED PERFORMANCE ARTIST exponentially, have taught us the fact that nature will destroy those who are in a state of panic, SOLOMON WILL model PERFORM AT Marine, THE imprudence, and foe. In this issue, we will be ELA introducing you bionic Rebekah the first guest of this new approach. OPENING ! Now, while you are isolated, you will have to do more than wash your hands and hide your soul at home… In this issue we prepared with this consciousness, every content we put into consideration, without ignoring the psychological effects, has always observed the positive energy. Without hiding… without loading it to someone else… without covering… Because we have entered a ten-year period in which we will deal with environmental and climate problems. For this, we will need correction rather than training. Technology is readyINTERVIEW to be our efficiency WITH in every field…With art and health… Editor Reborn
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CONTENT FUTURISM IS RAISING ! HANDE ŞEKERCİLER BY GLOBAL ART MOVEMENT : STIGMA ART RESIDENCYR'BORN PROGRAM WILL REALIZED IN ISTANBUL WITH PLUME PACOTILLES AND TANIATURKEY BOHUSLAVSKA BYARTIST BIPOLAR BASED PROJECTS.
THE SAKIP SABANCI MUSEUM İS HOSTİNG THE MOST COMPREHENSİVE EXHİBİTİON İN TURKEY FEATURİNG RUSSİAN AVANTGARDE, WHİCH SHAPED THE ART WORLD İN THE 20TH CENTURY.
WHO IS HANDE SEKERCILER CREATED WORKS LIKE A MIRROR OF FUTURISM.
BİCO STORE SHARES NEW COLLECTION TO RAISE METAMORPHOSIS ART FESTIVAL IN THE AWARENESS AND COLLABORATION WITH ARTE AURORA. EMPLOYMNENT WITHISRAEL BASED PERFORMANCE ARTIST BIPOLAR CREATORS. ELA SOLOMON WILL PERFORM AT THE OPENING !
IN THE COLLABORATION WITH BIPOCO AND ARTNESS SYSTEM, THEY ARE PREPARING NEW INTERVIEW WITH CAMPAIN ! PIA KINTRUP
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MARCH 30 IS WORLD BIPOLAR DAY AND WORLD GLOBAL ART MOVEMENT : STIGMA ART KNOWN ARTIST' RESIDENCY PROGRAM WILL REALIZED IN BIRTHDAY WHO IS ISTANBUL WITH PLUME PACOTILLES VINCENT VAN AND TANIA BOHUSLAVSKA BY BIPOLAR PROJECTS. GOGH.
THE SAKIP SABANCI MUSEUM İS HOSTİNG THE MOST COMPREHENSİVE EXHİBİTİON İN TURKEY FEATURİNG RUSSİAN AVANTGARDE, WHİCH SHAPED THE ART WORLD İN THE 20TH CENTURY.
BIPOCO INTERVIEW WITH BIPOLAR ARTIST WHO IS SEMA MAŞKILI.
BIONIC MODELS REBEKAH MARINE... HER WORKS DEFINES UPCOMING FUTURISM. R'BORN PREPARED TO ESSAY FOR SOCIAL CHALLENGE WORLDWIDE. INTERVIEW WITH PIA KINTRUP
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METAMORPHOSIS ART FESTIVAL IN THE COLLABORATION WITH ARTE AURORA. ISRAEL BASED PERFORMANCE ARTIST ELA SOLOMON WILL PERFORM AT THE OPENING !
BICO STORE
We are a family which were come together from all over the world... Artists, designers and creators who are #changemakers ! Our founder of @fatmagulmutlu.artway started the way 12 years ago for human who need support... Bico Store and Ger are visioner which services in Europe, Dubai and USA through different business partnership. Our inspiration from #rumi (in Turkey's literature who is called #mevlana ). We have 1000 members from all over to fighting for better world ! Let's support us to peace, to mental health, to humanity... Let's Shine Together ! @bicostore MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTER
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HANDE ŞEKERCİLER
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MYSTICAL FUTURISM “Of course, I feed on life in my sculptures. But there is a different reality that I have seen: our calm life with various routines is on the verge of tearing every moment. We can fight, crash or even die at any moment. In “Imaginary Enemies”, there are characters who are on the verge of insanity while they keep their routine calmly. Actually, I try to depict what they have done, not what they did, in my sculptures. Just like a woman who is tired of her husband's harassment while ironing, wants to kill her, wants to put an end to the existence of a child's mother who is afraid of the labels that come with pregnancy and the social position of her motherhood. The fine border between fantasy and insanity is my point of interest. I use epoxy and acrylic. Because these materials allow me to establish the contrast between content and plastic. My characters who set up such dazzled fantasies can look like candy, cartoon heroes. And since I can only provide the sense of alternative reality that I want to create with sufficient elaboration, I use these materials that allow it. ”
Hande Şekerciler - What the hammer? What the chain? (2015) http://www.gaiagallery.com/hande-sekerciler-2/
My two-months’ solo show at Green Hill Hotel Akashi in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, finished on March 28th. Comparing February and March, due to the spread of COVID-19, the wold now seems to be a different place. The exhibition went well, gathering many local visitors.
TAKAHIRO YAMADA
Title: Look Up ver. 5 / ink, pencil and acrylic on paper / exhibited at Green Hill Hotel Akashi, Japan
Art Fairs Postponed or Cancelled World Art Dubai 2020, scheduled for Apr. 8-11, where I was supposed to exhibit, has been postponed to October. Likewise, the 1st Chanchao Meow Expo in Taipei for July 10-13 has been postponed to next year. Since vaccines take at least 1 year and a half to be made, I believe it is quite likely that the postponed art fair will eventually be cancelled in October. While many countries run a great number of tests to diagnose coronavirus, lock down cities and begin tremendous economic stimulus packages, Japan takes a mysterious approach. As of April 1st, we run less tests and keep the patient count low (2,211 patients, 66 deaths *US: 164,343 patients and 3,016 deaths). The government is slow. No lock down of cities. Commuters still go to work, packed in trains (including me). We might become the next Italy or maybe not. We’ll see in the weeks ahead. Everybody take care, and see you in the next issue! Be safe!
Takahiro Yamada on YouTube: 1000 subscribers in 2 months Thank you to those who have read my last article and hit subscribe. Starting in February, I manged to reach the initial 1,000 YouTube channel subscribers, a requirement in order to enable mobile live broadcast. I upload weekly exhibition info updates with one new finished work image or work in progress, making-process videos, past work slideshows, cat videos etc. For April Fool’s Day, instead of cats, I uploaded a video full of stuffed animal works like teddy bears. If you’re interested, please check the channel, hit subscibe and thumbs up.Takahiro Yamada on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSyByJ08XKmvP7dYiRLJzMw
The Night Watch REMBRANDT IN THE SKY !
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMY UNION TITLED A CELESTIAL BODY FOR CELBRATING 100. YEAR : THE MASTERPIECES OF REMBRANDT WHICH IS THE NIGHT WATCH.
REBEKAH MARINE INCLUSIVE... WE NEED MORE INCLUSIVE ART, FASHION & MORE...
In these days, humanity is raising... After dates without hope at homes, Global Covid War brings awareness of human rights for all over the earth.
Time to embrace differences, not disabilities. Time to be a real human on the new era. Diversity in fashion included by Dior, Benetton, Adidas, Balmain, Boohoo, Gap and Target... But we need more and more.
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SEMA MAŞKILI INTERVIEW
‘‘ Sema Maşkılı focuses on the concepts of violence, existence and ego by using the human body in her art. She addresses human being as an entity trapped between the ethical values and the animal instincts and questions the complexity of human nature. The compositions consist of bodies that collide with each other in an animalistic manner, intertwined anatomical structures, and crushed and deformed body parts. The starting point of her works is based on that one entity does not accept a second entity. When one entity encounters another, the first infighting begins here without any malicious intentions. The entity first affirms itself, and in doing so, it marginalizes the one outside of itself. Even if it affirms the other, it never gives up on itself. Maşkılı, in this context, in her art interprets the tendencies of human beings for mental and physical violence.‘‘
SEMA MAŞKILI
İNTERVİEW
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Hello Dear SEMA MAŞKILI. Congrats for being selected interview artists by Artness Contemporary Art Magazine. Your work includes figurative approach and leading to thinking of moments… What is the experience that has influenced your work the most? The complexity of human nature affects me. Our consciousness is full of unknowns. People are sometimes merciful, sometimes dangerous. From the one closest to myself for many years; so I made pictures inspired by my own life. Many of these were self-portraits, but for the past three years I have turned my gaze inward and started to observe the human in general. This look has taken me somewhere else in my art. In my picture, the dose of violence increased. I concentrated on our animalistic motives, desires and ambitions that hurt each other.
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How do you convey messages through your all the different kind of works? All the work I have done so far has one thing in common: to reflect the human pain. I think that individual or social pain pushes people to produce and more successful works emerge after the painful periods. For example, look at the royal portraits of Goya and see the works produced under the influence of the Spanish civil war; there is a big difference.
You are an artists who have struggling with bipolar and we have huge number of collaborations on this topic. Also, our main collaborators are BIPOCO, BICO STORE, LUSART, BIPOCO STORE and BIPOLAR PROJECT ART INITIATIVE. We have a mantra as a solution partners which is ‘’Bipolar artists are genius hunters for life’’ Do you agree this vision and how do you think on this? I have never encountered a formation that brings together and supports bipolar artists. It may be interesting to bring artists together at this point and have them share common. Although there are differences between the works of the artists, I believe that there may be similar approaches during the creation process and I think that sharing these similarities will result in a positive result.
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We knew your solo show topices like ‘’What’s good? What’s Evil?’’, ‘’Body and Soul’’ which has includes duo and it is same to way of bipolar… Is it an expression for you? In Turkey, people could not talking about their health case of stigma to people with mental health issues. It is against international human rights. Do you have any mision to change the problem in your society? "What is good? What is bad?" In my exhibition, I was questioning people morally. I focused on where good and bad are separated. In fact, when I was questioning these two ends, I was thinking about the truth. Because sometimes you go so far that you lose the truth. It is always difficult to live and concentrate on the tips, but it is sure to trigger creativity. Ultimately, the moments when emotions are most intense. Every person has high emotions in certain periods of his life. But bipolar people experience it more often. The important thing is to direct this energy positively. At this point, the creative process is always a good converter. I have an artist friend who has a lot of mental problems around me. They can easily share their emotional problems with each other. These posts are easily made among artists, but the problem arises from other segments of society. In other words, it becomes difficult to express yourself when you go out from the art scene. Even if you are already living only by painting, it makes you a little strange in the eyes of others. Choosing to live as an artist is a disease for some people. When you go out of the art circle, you are mostly alone. It is very difficult to change the perspective of people against mental illnesses. Although I try from time to time, I can say that I have difficulty changing this.
Would
you
talking
about
your
upcoming projects? What issues do you plan to produce? Would you like attend your art and art workshops through residency programs in all over? Could you please share your messages to global art market in your
approach
also
for
your
audiences?
I plan to make a new exhibition when I finish my last series. In my last work, I focused on physical and mental violence. These
are
intertwined
bodies
and
compositions consisting of anatomical forms that crush each other. Naked bodies are at war with each other on the surface. I have participated in a few workshops before, but I do not prefer to participate because I have difficulty concentrating while producing works outside my own workshop. I find it positive in the context of the relationships between artists.
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If we talk about the art market, I have some strict opinions about this. Today, mostly ideas and decor are sold, not works. Anyone who has found a new idea or a new technique can become a contemporary artist, but the job is not that simple. If you are doing visual art, you cannot just lean your back on a thought and put the visual elements on the second plan. First of all, you need to know and use visual aesthetic values, basic plastic elements, color, composition light etc. The artist should create the new and different in his work by using these plastic elements and this should be supported. However, both viewers and buyers are directed to jobs that are easier to grasp, monitored, consumed quickly and have no depth. Maybe it's about the century we live in. Most people no longer want to see work that has spiritual depth or arousing negative emotions. In fact, even a negative subject is presented to the audience in a visually decorative way. This topic is very long, there is a lot to say. I will continue on my own path only the way I believe.
WEN LIU
‘ Tone quality plays a major role in Wen Liu's music. She tries to develop a special language of tone colors for every composition, to find specific harmonic colors. In Impossibility of Being Still, she does this by choosing an unusual scoring, combining the saxophone and the accordion with the traditional chamber music instruments flute, violin and violoncello. This makes every individual instruments sound familiar and strange at the same time. While Wen has already written several pieces for large ensembles and orchestras as well as many compositions for dance theater and large multimedia productions. Creating chamber music is special aspiration of hers. Chamber music, she emphasizes, is the basis for every composer, and every composer greatly benefits from taking on the technical challenge of composing for a chamber Ensemble. She wishes to break new ground for herself with every new composition, finding a new form, new tone qualities, new harmonies. To her, the concept of a piece ending like it begins, coming full circle, is entirely foreign. What sense does it make, asks Wen, to write a piece if at the end you have returned to square one? ‘‘
Mirjam Jessa
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WEN LIU
Hello Dear WEN LIU. Congrats for being selected
interview
Contemporary
Art
artists Magazine.
by
Artness
Your
work
includes innovative approach and leading to thinking for audiences… What is the experience that has influenced your work the most?
I’m delighted to be selected by Artness Contemporary Art Magazine, thank you for the great opportunity! I am educated as a composer of contemporary and experimental music, having graduated with both a BA and MA in music composition from Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, Austria. Since 2015, I have been pursuing a Ph.D. in music composition at the University of California, San Diego.For the past 10 years I have been active in academic education, as well as involved in the contemporary music scene. As I have grown as a musician and composer, I have become increasingly interested in exploring other creative outlets: multimedia works, stage design, directing film projects, and collaborating with visual artists. I have been seeking to develop unique works that feature a vivid and contemporary translation of multidisciplinary art forms by utilizing advanced technology. Interactive music and multimedia with reference to transmediality and multimediality have been major influences on my artistic output for the past years. The further I have been going along with my artistic explorations, the more I came to realize that it is not satisfied with the traditional boundaries. It’s time for a redefinition what means when all the senses and all the art forms come together, to make something bigger than the sum of their parts.
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WEN LIU
İNTERVİEW
And how to use those mediums to explore deep inside humanity and examining issues of morality. In my few early works, I have been much inspired by the concept of Doublegänger, and The Lucifer Effect, to seek an understanding of humanity through its reflection parallel to life, leading people to question ourselves and the world, to deliver social and moral issues, by creating an artistic experience that treats our lives, without necessarily reaching an answer. I have been seeking an individual voice through my works that can come with those questions that bring other layers closer to epistemology, to push the boundaries of humanity, the social issues, and the anthropology, and etc.
You are a composer, sound/film/visual artist and founding director of F.E.S.T.I.V.A.L. MARS. How do you convey messages through your all the different kind of works? Are you an gifted person to humanity? I believe that music, art, and science should come together to accomplish what one field alone cannot: to convey ideas and inspire changes in mindset, attitudes and behaviors that will lead to a better, more open human understanding on different levels and areas. I always consider myself first and foremost a person who is keen and eager to explore and experiment with new ideas and technologies, to challenge my creativity and imagination. Having those experiences as a composer that have worked on several music, dance and multimedia productions, I have came to question how
to
encounter
between
music,
visual
art,
Do you agree with our vision and what do you think about the theme of the upcoming collaborations of MARS Festival? How do you
performance and technology, to merge the boundaries
think for your another future collaborations
and create a new form.
that is possible from all over? Which kind of collaboration do you open?
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WEN LIU
İNTERVİEW
I absolutely admire the vision from your organization.
I am currently interested in creating a new, expanded
The focus on Art and Health has been a topic which I
operatic form, which incorporates technology to
would like to explore, and to create meaningful art
create
projects that could light on those mental issues and
performance.
personality disorder. I personally have been interested
experimenting with parallel timelines and mixed
in such topics for a while, I am open for any kind of
realities, inspired by immersive theatre such as Sleep
collaborations with you, in hopes that I would be able
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to contribute my ideas and experiences to your
My current ongoing project Echo of Entropy, is a
projects. Festival M.A.R.S.’s mission is to inspire
sound and data visualization composition, based on
changes in humanity. I believe that your vision is
my continued research on quantum mechanics and
perfectly fit into Festival M.A.R.S. mission, and
neuroscience theories, to examine the phenomenon
together we are able to inspire changes in the society
of consciousness and the potential role of quantum
through art works.
entanglement. This project aims to investigate how
a
larger I
form am
of
immersive
particularly
non-linear
interested
in
visuals and music could produce mindscape and psychodrama. My another work in progress project,
Would you talking about your upcoming projects? What issues do you plan to produce?
Museum of 2050, is an installation exhibition, a walkthrough performative opera which showcases three ideas: ‘artificial immortality’, ‘artificial consciousness’ and ‘artificial morality’, investigating the nature of cognition.
WEN LIU
İNTERVİEW
Could you please share your messages to global art market in your approach? I believe that we, as artists, are able to create work that adds knowledge to humanity, addressing some of the big questions that face modern society. In some cases the arts are the best way to expose human tendencies that are otherwise invisible: hold up a mirror to enable reflection on human morality and the meaning of “understanding” itself.
GLORIA KEH
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