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Kutlug Ataman
Born 1961, Istanbul. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, London, and Istanbul.
Selected solo exhibitions
2006
DeRegulation, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium. Exhibition travels to Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel.
2005
Kuba, Artangel, London.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
2003
Long Streams, Serpentine Gallery, London.
2001
Women Who Wear Wigs, Lehmann Maupin, New York (and 2002, 2004).
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2004
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London.
2003
The 8th International Istanbul Biennial.
Tate Triennial, Tate Britian, London.
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel.
1999
La Biennale di Venezia.
In his works the leading Turkish master of video art, Kutlug Ataman, combines the impassivity of documentary cinema with a precisely thought out artistic plot brought by the author. Ataman's characters, it seems, completely open up in front of the camera, telling us about their misfortunes freely and without constraint. The artist creates a special intimate space in which the viewer, following the camera's movement, becomes a co-author of the work, combining his own world-perception with that offered on the
screen.
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Kutlug Ataman (Turkey)
Turkish Delight, 2006
Single-channel video projection
Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
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