Ahu Antmen

Guided Tour

January 21, 2016 / 19:00

With the participation of Ahu Antmen, curator of the exhibition Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting, the tour will offer an opportunity to have a closer look at the exhibition.

Ahu Antmen graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Communications. She obtained an MA in 20th Century Art from London University Goldsmiths College, and completed her PhD on New Approaches in Turkish Art at Mimar Sinan University. She lectures on 20th Century Art, Art Theory and Criticism, Contemporary Art Practice and Contemporary Turkish Art at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts and Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in Istanbul. Her recent publications include Bodies with Identities, Trends in 20th Century Western Art, monographies on Turkish artists Ali Teoman Germaner and Hale Tenger, and the edited volume Art/Gender: Art History and Feminist Criticism

The event is now fully booked - thank you for your interest!

Admission: 30 TL  (Free for Friends of the Museum)
Please email resepsiyon@peramuzesi.org.tr to book your place. Please note that the tour language is Turkish.

 

Temporary Exhibition

Bare, Naked, Nude

Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting aimed to reveal the transformation from the Ottoman Empire into the Republican Era and how the few secretly made paintings at the turn of the 20th century created a new perspective for present times.

Bare, Naked, Nude

Niko Pirosmani

Niko Pirosmani

“A nameless Egyptian fresco, an African idol or a vase from Crete: we should behold Pirosmani’s art among them. Only this way it is possible to conceive it genuinely … …You see Pirosmani – you believe in Georgia”.
Grigol Robakidze

Game of Mangala

Game of Mangala

Three figures in Eastern dress are shown in repose against an exotic landscape, smoking pipes and playing mangala. Inventories of the royal collections from 1739 identify the members of this group as the royal eunuch Matthias and two odalisques. 

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.