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Seval 艦ener: A Light in the Harem

07 Mar, 2018 - 31 Mar, 2018

Gallery Nev鈥檚 second exhibition opening at their new address on K谋rlang谋莽 street will commence in the evening of Wednesday, March 7th. After the first exhibition by Murat Morova who evoked miniatures emphasised from a fairytale book, this time Seval 艦ener's exhibition entitled "A Light in the Harem" turns gigantic works of art from museums around the world into miniatures. 

Seval 艦ener, like Jean Dominique Ingres, is looking for ways to be original by copying. The artist begins to copy miniatures to comprehend their roots and trace back to the miniature traditions in the geography we are in, examining the extent to which the masterpieces of the post-Renaissance are preserved and can remain as masterpieces when they are re-edited as miniatures. In the same experiment, many Orientalist painters, including Ingres, G茅r么me and Osman Hamdi, also become subjects. In this way, a text, say a poem, that is first translated from an Eastern language to a Western language, then back to an Eastern language; thus, the poetry perhaps becomes diminished, or maybe begins to overlap... 



Gallery Nev鈥檚 second exhibition opening at their new address on K谋rlang谋莽 street will commence in the evening of Wednesday, March 7th. After the first exhibition by Murat Morova who evoked miniatures emphasised from a fairytale book, this time Seval 艦ener's exhibition entitled "A Light in the Harem" turns gigantic works of art from museums around the world into miniatures. 

Seval 艦ener, like Jean Dominique Ingres, is looking for ways to be original by copying. The artist begins to copy miniatures to comprehend their roots and trace back to the miniature traditions in the geography we are in, examining the extent to which the masterpieces of the post-Renaissance are preserved and can remain as masterpieces when they are re-edited as miniatures. In the same experiment, many Orientalist painters, including Ingres, G茅r么me and Osman Hamdi, also become subjects. In this way, a text, say a poem, that is first translated from an Eastern language to a Western language, then back to an Eastern language; thus, the poetry perhaps becomes diminished, or maybe begins to overlap... 



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Kirlangic Sokak 24/3 Ankara, Turkey 06700

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