An Unforgettable Place of Memory: Atatürk Forest Farm" painting exhibition opened at Gallery Soyut Çankaya.
Former Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch President Tezcan Karakuş Candan has brought to life a special painting exhibition for the 100th anniversary of Atatürk Forest Farm. Curated by İbrahim Karaoğlu at Gallery Soyut Çankaya, the "Unforgettable Place of Memory: Atatürk Forest Farm" exhibition opened to visit on June 11, the day Atatürk entrusted Atatürk Forest Farm to the public.
(ANKARA) - Former Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch President Tezcan Karakuş Candan has brought to life a special painting exhibition for the 100th anniversary of Atatürk Forest Farm. Curated by İbrahim Karaoğlu at Gallery Soyut Çankaya, the "Unforgettable Place of Memory: Atatürk Forest Farm" exhibition opened to visit on June 11, the day Atatürk entrusted Atatürk Forest Farm to the public. It was opened to visitors in June.
Under the leadership of former Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch President Tezcan Karakuş Candan, a special exhibition was opened in memory of the 100th anniversary of the Atatürk Forest Farm. On June 11, when the farm was entrusted to the public, the painting exhibition titled "An Unforgettable Place of Memory: Atatürk Forest Farm", curated by İbrahim Karaoğlu, was opened for viewing at Gallery Soyut Çankaya.
The exhibition consists of 42 works made with mixed techniques on leather. Candan; by reuniting many of the demolished structures with art lovers with the power of art, salutes Atatürk Forest Farm with a respect parade on its 100th anniversary.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by former CHP Ankara Deputy Gülsüm Bilgehan, President of the Federation of Turkish Women's Associations Canan Güllü, Sema Kılıçer from the EU Delegation, journalist and author Işık Kansu, former president of TMMOB Yavuz Önen, founder of Müze Kumbaram Armağan Daloğlu, journalist Nihal Kemaloğlu and journalist Özlem Akarsu Çelik attended.
"Beyond an exhibition, a symphony of the Republic"
The President of the Federation of Women's Associations of Turkey, Güllü, who opened the exhibition, said, "Today, we will watch a symphony of the Republic here. When you see the places that do not exist today at the Atatürk Forest Farm, when you stand in front of each painting for minutes, you will see a story of the Republic there, you will feel a women's revolution. A woman of the Republic, Tezcan Karakuş Candan, continues the Atatürk Forest Farm, for which she fought, and the values of the Republic with exhibitions and documentary films in the field of art, taking us all to another dimension and inviting us to think about what we have lost again. She brings us together with the ideology of the Republic with places of memory."
"A magnificent art constructed by memory"
Tezcan Karakuş Candan said, "This is actually beyond an exhibition, I call it interactive art. When we stand in front of each painting and look deeply, another exhibition begins to be built in our minds. In this construction process where the heart and memory form the mortar, each work is like a puzzle piece that forms that big photo. With this interaction, a huge Republic exhibition is created in our minds. This is a magnificent art constructed by memory. Each painting has a reminding and empathizing aspect and strengthens the memory. This exhibition, where we will feel an agricultural development model, the revolutionary perspective and modern life of the Republic, also emphasizes what we have lost in the 100th year of the Atatürk Forest Farm," he said.
Karaoğlu, who curated the exhibition, expressed his thoughts on the Atatürk Forest Farm and the exhibition with the following words:
"A brand new pictorial memory"
"In the modernization process of our country that started with the Republic; Atatürk Forest Farm is the most important memory place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's vision of contemporary urban and agricultural planning. It has not only been a production and agricultural area, but also the pioneer of a new culture and lifestyle. Its memory is a place full of unique images for a hundred years... It is a monumental area with the structures inside and the memories in our social memory. This place that Atatürk donated and entrusted to his nation has been experiencing its unhappiest times for years in the last periods of its century-old history; as a significant part of its lands were opened to construction and reduced by construction. In the face of this situation, through practices of ownership, protection and resistance; civil society organizations, writers, artists, scientists and culture people; protested, held conferences, filed lawsuits, organized exhibitions, wrote articles and created documentaries. In the 100th year of its foundation, they presented distinguished examples of reminding Atatürk Forest Farm again, not forgetting it; protecting not only its past but also its present and future. All these Architect/writer/artist Tezcan Karakuş Candan, who is a pioneer in these practices, also took a very special, holistic stance with his writings, the documentary film he prepared, the conferences he attended and the painting exhibition he prepared in the 100th anniversary events of AOÇ, both at home and abroad. In his exhibition at Gallery Soyut, he transforms the spatial images of AOÇ in our social and individual memory into a poetic visuality in his painting; he touches us with the emotions created by a century-old icon. By building bridges with yesterday, he makes us feel the necessity of protecting the founding ideology of modern Türkiye and a symbolic memory space of the Republic with his art. He creates a new, brand new pictorial memory with his own unique style. In an exhibition I previously curated, he offered art lovers a visual feast by winding through the pictorial memory of the magnificent and iconic statue-like stances of the structures in the city created with the enlightenment of the Republic. This exhibition complements the previous one. Again, "By bringing to life and reminding us of a very valuable place of memory that has remained in the monotony and absentmindedness of our gaze, that we have passed by many times, that we want to be forgotten, it offers an exhibition loaded with visual records of creating a new memory."
The exhibition will meet art lovers at Gallery Soyut Çankaya until June 25.
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