This content was published on January 23, 2024 – 08:43 January 23, 2024 – 08:43
Istanbul, Jan 23 (EFE).- Geometric figures, pieces suspended in the air, moving gadgets, a transparent parabolic mirror… ‘The Dynamic Eye’, a traveling exhibition from the British Tate gallery, brings together greatest achievement of modern art and opens today in Istanbul.
Almost one hundred works by 57 artists from 21 countries are gathered until May 19 in the immense hall of Feshane, a former Ottoman textile factory on the banks of the Golden Horn in Istanbul, restored last year.
Feshane Artistanbul, a cultural center that hosts not only exhibitions but also a library, concerts and children’s workshops, is the third stop of the traveling exhibition ‘The Dynamic Eye’, which has already visited Porto and Shanghai.
A small closed room stands out with lights emitted by a rotating ball, the work of the German artist Otto Piene, one of the founders of the ZERO group in 1957 and a pioneer of optical art.
“Not even I had seen this work yet, because it has not yet been exhibited in London,” Tate director Maria Balshaw, present at the inauguration in Istanbul, told EFE.
“We are really committed to expanding the reach of who comes to our museums, to our exhibitions, a commitment to include the widest possible audience, both in Istanbul and in London,” said the director.
At the welcome cocktail, the city’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, stressed that the expansion of the city’s cultural offering, promoted by his team, also aims to attract a different type of tourism, interested in art.
“We are happy to offer art lovers in Istanbul one of Tate’s most special collections, one of the most visited and appreciated galleries in the world,” said the councilor.
Apart from the prestige of Tate, optical art has one advantage: it will not anger the residents of the conservative district in which the cultural center is located, which already suffered an attack by an Islamist group during its inaugural exhibition last June.
Fundamentalists considered the exhibition immoral due to its alleged sexual and homosexual content, although the works only included a couple of unremarkable nudes.
Finally, the Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation, not against the assailants but against the mayor’s office for possible “incitement to hatred” through art, a risk that is not foreseen with the abstract forms of the Tate. EFE
iut/ll/cg
© EFE 2024. The redistribution and redistribution of all or part of the contents of the Efe services is expressly prohibited, without prior and express consent of the EFE SA Agency.
2024-01-24 01:47:12
#Tate #gallerys #optical #kinetic #art #exhibition #opens #Istanbul
