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Esra Ersen- Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
5. February 2010, 22:07:14 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, Vienna
Esra Ersen is interested in the formation of identity and its transformation in different contexts or power structures. Her work “Carousel” shown in the exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) was produced with high school students from Cologne. Ersen asked the students to model Turkish heads out of clay.
Franz Kapfer - Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
3. February 2010, 17:49:25 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Podcasts, Video, Vienna
Franz Kapfer is an artist from Austria. His interest lies in patterns of representation.
In his work “Trophies” in exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) he examines cliché representations of Turkish motives in Austrian architecture.
tanzimat - History is in the making
27. January 2010, 10:07:03 unter Art Spaces, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Portraits, Video, ViennaDeveloped in parallel to the major Prince Eugen of Savoy exhibition at the Lower Belvedere, tanzimat at the Augarten Contemporary examines the continual reorganization of historical constructs and devices that underscore the neverending project of modernity.

It is an interesting fact that the fez, the iconic Turkish hat that was originally instituted as a “modernizing” symbol for the Ottoman Empire in 1826, was later banned in Turkey in 1925, also as part of a “modernizing” reform. It is also interesting to note that after the invention of synthetic dyes, the main manufacturer of the fez—which up until that point had been colored with native berry juice—was located in Austria, that is, until it was boycotted by Turkey in 1908 more »




