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Cappadocia Zelve the fairy land of extraordinary nature
The rock houses and the fairy chimneys of Zelve are one of the most important site of Cappadocia which is visited as a open-air museum today. Maybe, Zelve does not have the frescos as the other dwellings of Cappadocia but the rooms and passages in the rocky slopes are as interesting as the other ones. It is amazing to think how people settled in these…
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Questioning Art by Art
There are two exhibitions going on right now that I really enjoyed which are questioning Art from different perspectives. I found both of them smartly curated based on current relevant issues. Warhola which is exhibited in Alan İstanbul (08/nov. – 01/dec.) gallery focuses on the relationship of “re-production” between the modern art and current…
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Penelope, the fiber artwork aims to connect
Here is the blogpost I wrote for MunaHome
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Chinese Contemporary Art exhibition called Tranformation is at Istanbul Modern Museum
This weekend, I visited the Contemporary Chinese Art exhibition called Transformation: A view on Chinese Contemporary Art at Istanbul Modern Museum featuring the 15 artists from China. I think we as Istanbullers are lucky to have a chance of viewing these wonderful Art exhibition as part of the celebrations of 2012 Chinese Cultural year in Turkey until…
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Armaggan Nuruosmaniye Gallery / States of Material Exhibition / Artists and Designers Collective Works
Yesterday, I was invited to a very exciting exhibition at the heavenly beautiful store of Armaggan Nuruosmaniye Gallery in Istanbul. If you are a fan of this exotic city and its rich culture I m pretty sure you know or at least heard about this historical neighborhood of NuruOsmaniye in Sultanahmet (It is the street where one of the major Grandbazaar gate is…
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A Sensational Room
I always love the room decorations completed by eastern antique figures and art pieces. While they add sophistication by their characters, they express gratitude of life. Therefore, to me they are the best complements of living spaces by their poistive energy and that explains why they help to add sensation where they stand. I think the smart combination of…
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A city living in color of broken mosaics
Gaudi had achieved to embellish hard to decorate surfaces with beautiful colors of Mediterranean ceramics. This technique of gathering the previously broken pieces of ceramic called trencadis. I certainly give credit to the laborers who had worked madly on realization of the crazy design projects of Gaudi. Today, it is a feast to the eye of residents and visitors of Barcelona to…
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Gaudi’ s unusual decorative and architectural elements
The anthropomorphic shapes are the most crowning elements of Catalan’ s art nouveau stream called Modernista. The snail, spiral and organic forms, leaning columns, soft hand shaped materials, whirlpools, uneven holes, bone like shapes, melting shapes, most extraordinary designs are all part of Catalan architecture. The mad man, genius Catalan architect of the human history, Antoni Gaudi is the main…
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