ISTANBUL, TURKEY – İstanbul Modern Museum’s new
Exhibition, “From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish
Art”, will open in February 2010. Focusing on the relationship
between art and the traditional, the Exhibition seeks to show how artists employ
history in their construction of modernism. Curated by İstanbul
Modern’s chief Curator Levent Çalıkoğlu, “From Traditional to Contemporary:
Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art“ will be a exhibition in which modern and
contemporary artists will take part. These are the artists who reinterpret
information, which is traditional, in the context of a new language of
expression.