Abdurrahman Öztoprak, Missa Solemnis

ISTANBUL, TURKEY.- Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul presents the exhibition “Poetics of Space: Öztoprak and His Generation’ to honour the eightieth birthday of Abdurrahman Öztoprak, one of the Turkey’s leading contemporary artists of international stature. The exhibition will be held between 12th of December, 2007 and 15th of March, 2008.
The exhibition, ‘Poetics of Space: Öztoprak and His Generation’, curated by Necmi Sönmez, will focus on one aspect: Abstract artistic dialogue between Turkish and European artists. The aim of the exhibition proposal is to present first time in Istanbul some important abstract paintings after 1945 from the collection of European Museums together a selection of works by Abdurrahman Öztoprak. Both accessible and compelling, this confrontation of abstract works from Europe and Turkey transcends cultural and geographic distance.
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