Kutlug Ataman

In cooperation with Capital of Culture Linz09, the Lentos Museum of Contemporary Art in Linz is proud to announce the exhibition "Mesopotamian Dramaturgies" that will be running there until April 19, 2009.

In his film, video and photographic work Kutlug Ataman confronts the ruptures between what we embrace as "part of us" and what we consider the "Other": conflicts that stem from tradition and convention, from belief and convictions. He focuses on Turkey’s upheavals, on the dramatic changes the country is undergoing in the areas of politics, culture and economy and on the struggle between religious and secular world views.
Ataman has also set his sights on East-West tensions, which he interprets as an acute crisis. He brings together elements of the history of western modernism and questions its claim of universal validity with an analysis of those much vaunted European "values". He explores the theme of Europe as an entity and raises questions about its geographical, cultural, institutional, mental and ideological borders. Kutlug Ataman’s work includes in its dramatic sweep pictures of Anatolian everyday life adorned with Christian hagiographical quotations, calligraphy as an art form and a "Trip to the Moon".

Don’t miss out on visiting this interesting exhibition by Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman, running at the Lentos Museum of Contemporary Art in Linz until April 19, 2009.

Links:

• Lentos - Museum of Modern Art Linz
  
• Kutlug Ataman "Mesopotamian Dramaturgies"
  

• Live Cameras in Linz
  
• Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture
  

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