Director: Carlos Sorin
Cast: Juan Villegas, Walter Donado
Argentina, Spain, 2004, 97’, color
Spanish with Turkish subtitles
52-year-old Juan “Coco” Villegas, suddenly loses his job at a gas station, where he had been working for more than two decades. He does not give up and seeks different jobs in the villages of Patagonia and tries to hold on. One day, after a repair job, he gets paid in the strangest way; with a dog! Argentine director Carlos Sorin’s Bombón: El perro tells the story of an extraordinary dog who changes an ordinary man’s life.
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Our institutions have been stuck on linear Neo-Platonic tracks for 24 centuries. These antiquated processes of deduction have lost their authority. Just like art it has fallen off its pedestal. Legal, educational and constitutional systems rigidly subscribe to these; they are 100% text based.
The exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection examines portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Through the exhibition we will be sharing about the artists and sections in Look At Me!. This time we are sharing about Janine Antoni , exhibited under the section “The Conventions of Identitiy”!
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.
Tuesday - Friday 11.00 - 18.00
The museum is closed on Mondays,
Saturdays and Sundays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 25 TL
Discounted: 10 TL
Groups: 20 TL (10 people or more)
