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http://linocutboy.com/ten-essential-materials-and-tools-for-linocut/

These incredible prints, made by Bryan Nash Gill, are created using remnants of tree stumps, which the artist inks and hand prints to make these large scale records of trees that have been felled. The printing process for this series is incredibly laborious: after rolling out the ink, the artist gingerly places the thin Japanese paper atop the section of wood, and uses the pressure of his fingertips to impress the ink upon paper.

“Cut Microbe” is a sculpture entirely hand cut out of paper. Measuring 44 inches/112cms in length, it is half a million times bigger than the ecoli bacteria upon which it is based. I wanted to create a sculpture that reflected in the process of being made the incredible scale and complexity of this microbiological world. I am amazed at the strange beauty of the natural world and wanted to open people’s eyes to aspects of it that they rarely see.



Commissioned to make this sculpture for the Eden Project in the UK. It will be part of a new exhibition centre entitled “The Invisible You“, exploring the Human Biome, that is the vast colony of microbes that live on and in our bodies. There are countless millions of these bugs swimming around our intestine like alien jellyfish! They play a crucial role in the functioning of our bodies.

http://www.boredpanda.com/famous-artists-and-their-muses-in-their-studios/

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4 – 26 Nisan 2015

“Geçen hafta, aramızdan Agnuni, Khajag, Zartaryan, Cangülyan, Dağavaryan ve Sarkis Minasyan, Ankara’dan çağırılıp yola çıktılar. Şimdi nerede olduklarını bilmiyoruz. Üzülüyorum, çünkü İstibdat rejimi altında onca zorluk çektiğimiz halde, bu Hürriyet ve Meşrutiyet döneminde de haksız yere eziyete uğruyoruz. Vatan uğruna onca sene çile ve sıkıntı çekenlerin bahtına bu mu düşecekti!”
Sımpad Pürad’ın Ayaş hapishanesinden yazdığı, 30 Mayıs 1915 tarihli mektuptan

“Bir gün gitmek mecburiyetinde kalırsak ama... Tıpkı 1915’teki gibi çıkacaktık yola... Atalarımız gibi... Nereye gideceğimizi bilmeden... Yürüyerek yürüdükleri yollardan... Duyarak çileyi, yaşayarak ızdırabı...”
Hrant Dink’in “Ruh Halimin Güvercin Tedirginliği” yazısından

Yüz yıl önce, 24 Nisan 1915’te İstanbul’da Ermeni fikir önderleri, mebuslar, gazeteciler, yazarlar, siyasetçiler tutuklanır ve Çankırı ile Ayaş’taki toplama merkezlerine gönderilir. Daha sonra çoğu, cezaevlerinden salınan çete mensuplarına kırdırılır. Bu tutuklamalar İttihat ve Terakki hükümetinin kısa zamanda soykırım niteliği alan tehcir kararının ilk adımı olur. 23’ünü 24’üne bağlayan gece yaklaşık 250 kişinin tutuklanmasının ardından birkaç gün içinde 2500 kişiye yönelik büyük bir polis operasyonu düzenlenir.

24 Nisan ve sonrasında tutuklanan, sürgüne gönderilen ve öldürülen Ermeni aydınların portrelerinden oluşan iş, sanatçı Nalan Yırtmaç tarafından üretildi. Bu iş, onları “tutuklanıp götürülen Ermeniler” genel başlığından çıkarıp, adlarını yüzlerini bildiğimiz insanlara, kozmopolitan Osmanlı entelektüel ortamının aktif katılımcılarına dönüştürüyor. Yırtmaç’ın bugüne ulaşan az sayıda yayındaki fotoğrafları kaynak alarak kendi resimsel diliyle ürettiği bu portreler, kimilerince yok sayılan kimilerince de pek az bilinen bir geçmişi toplumsal hafızaya geri çağırıyor.

Hrant Dink’in 19 Ocak 2007’deki katlinin hemen ardından Anti-Pop’un hazırladığı iş, bu portrelerle bir arada sergileniyor. Böylelikle 1915 ile Hrant Dink cinayeti arasındaki acı veren sürekliliğe dikkat çekiliyor. Bir yanda yüz yıl önce tutuklanıp öldürülen aydınlar, diğer yanda daha birkaç yıl önce Türklerle Ermenilerin kendi kimliklerini sağlıklı bir şekilde yeniden kurarak eşit ve özgür biçimde yaşayacaklarına dair inancını hayatıyla ödeyen bir devrimci.

Osmanlı’da ve Türkiye’de yaşanan büyük felaket ile yüzleşmek, başını eğip birlikte yas tutmak için…

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Without knowing where we are headed…

Nalan Yırtmaç and Anti-pop

4 - 26 April 2015

“Last week, from among us, Agnuni, Khajag, Zartaryan, Cangülyan, Dağavaryan and Sarkis Minasyan were summoned by Ankara and they set on the road. We do not know their whereabouts now. I grieve, because although we suffered so much hardship under the Autocracy regime, we are still being unjustly persecuted in this era of Freedom and Constitutionalism also. Was this the fortune to befall those who suffered and toiled for the sake of the motherland all those years!”
From Sımpad Pürad’s letter dated May 30, 1915 written from the prison of Ayaş

“It may be that one day we would be forced to go, but... We would set out just like those in 1915 did... Like our forefathers... Without knowing where we were headed... Walking on the roads they trod... Feeling the torment, living the pain...”
From Hrant Dink’s article “Like a nervous pigeon: my unsettled state of mind”

One hundred years ago, on April 24, 1915, Armenian opinion leaders, parliamentarians, journalists, writers, and politicians were arrested in İstanbul and sent to concentration camps in Çankırı and Ayaş. Later, most of them were slain by band members set loose from prisons. These arrests constitute the first step of the Committee of Union and Progress government’s decision of deportation which soon evolves into a genocide. Following the arrest of approximately 250 people on the night of the 23rd leading up to the 24th, a massive police operation is set underway which targets 2500 people over the course of a couple of days.

The work comprised of portraits of Armenian intellectuals arrested, exiled and killed on April 24 and in its aftermath was created by artist Nalan Yırtmaç. This work pulls them out from under the generic heading of “arrested and cast out Armenians” and turns them into people with familiar names and faces; the active participants of the cosmopolitan Ottoman intellectual milieu. These portraits the artist has produced in her own pictorial language based on photographs from the few publications that have survived to the present day summon a past that is scarcely known by some and completely ignored by others back to collective memory.

The work created by Anti-Pop immediately after the assassination of Hrant Dink on January 19, 2007 is exhibited together with these portraits, drawing attention to the agonizing continuity between 1915 and the massacre of Hrant. On one hand are the intellectuals arrested and killed a hundred years ago, and on the other a revolutionary who paid with his life only a few years ago for believing that Turks and Armenians will reconstruct their own identities on healthy grounds and live in equality and freedom.

To come to terms with the great catastrophe experienced in the Ottoman state and Turkey, to bow our heads and mourn together…

2015 Exhibition Program of DEPO is being realized in cooperation with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
DEPO 2015 Sergi Programı Calouste Gulbenkian Vakfı işbirliği ile gerçekleşmektedir.

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