Starting with a guided tour of the exhibitions Calculations and Coincidences and In Search of Vera Molnár, the workshop is inspired by the geometric forms in Gizella Rákóczy's Twisted Spiral. The participants embroider the patterns they create with algorithmic calculations on everyday objects with various embroidery techniques, without being afraid of making mistakes that can reveal the uniqueness in irregularity.
Note: No prior embroidery experience is required
Instructor: Melike Güven
Capacity: 12 people
Duration: 90 minutes
Fee per workshop: 400 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum.
About Melike Güven
Melike Güven, who graduated from Gazi University Embroidery Teaching Department, did her master's degree at Nişantaşı University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Textile and Fashion Design on ‘Techniques in Turkish Embroidery Art with Western Influence’. She started her first research on embroidery in the last year of university with her thesis on the rich embroidery techniques of Anatolia. She is currently working as an embroidery teacher at Kağıthane Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School and aims to share this artistic vision with her students. Melike Güven, who deals with traditional embroidery techniques from a modern perspective, creates original works by transforming
Henryk Weyssenhoff, author of landscapes, prints, and illustrations, devoted much of his creative energies to realistic vistas of Belorussia, Lithuania, and Samogitia. A descendant of an ancient noble family which moved east to the newly Polonised Inflanty in the 17th century, the young Henryk was raised to cherish Polish national traditions.
A series of small and rather similar nudes Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and Eren Eyüboğlu produced in the early 1930s almost resemble a ‘visual conversation’ that focus on a pictorial search. It is also possible to find the visual reflections of this earlier search in the synthesis Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu reached with his stylistic abstractions in the 1950s.
Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
