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Subject: Istanbul: COPY IT, STEAL IT, SHARE IT
From: "Michele Thursz" <michele.thursz@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, September 9, 2003 5:31 pm
To: michele.thursz@verizon.net
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For Immediate release


Borusan Art Gallery, Istiklal Caddesi No:421 80060 Beyoglu-Istanbul-Turkey


COPY IT, STEAL IT, SHARE IT
Artists and icons
Opening reception September 20

September 20 - November 8, 2003

Curator: Michele Thursz in collaboration with Anne Barlow



The Birth of Venus: Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth century painting; an
Andy Warhol wristwatch; the Adobe software logo for "Illustrator". A
visual "icon" can be steeped in history and associations with religion,
art, popular culture, personalities, mass media, computer technology, or
any combination of these. The practice of copying, stealing, and sharing
icons has been around for centuries, but new communication platforms (such
as the internet, handheld devices, and interactive cinema) offers
artists-and viewers-new ways of doing so.



Whether artists work with new media, or with more "traditional" art forms
such as painting, the technologies, practices, or aesthetics of digital
culture filter through the work of all the artists in this show - adding
new and layered dimensions to the acts of copying, stealing, and sharing.
The meanings of icons continue to shift, reconstructing information and
open up new ways in which a story is told.



Copy it, steal it, share it is a group exhibition that looks at icons as
archetypal structures, as sources of knowledge that generate an on going
contemporary dialogue. The exhibition includes works on paper, drawing,
paintings, cinema, net, mosaic and public installations by Monika Bravo,
Andy Deck, Godfried Donker, Ellen Gallagher, Space Invader, Reynold
Reynolds, Carlo Zanni, and Marina Zurkow



Monica Bravo's (South America) work "Playing With Time" video uses the
U.S. landing on the moon as a pivotal time in U.S. history and an
indelible imprint in our memory. Andy Deck's (USA) Internet project
Glyphiti, is a multi-user collaborative drawing platform calling on the
spirit of graffiti. Godfried Donker's (UK) Paintings, Financial Times
silhouettes, Tyson draw on the relationship of economy and iconic forms,
by translating words figuratively and drawing on the myths, idols historic
structures. Space Invader (France) Invasion a mosaic and public
installation exposes the fusion of the subculture of video games and
graffiti, Carlo Zanni's (Italy) oil paintings of software logos and
desktop icons.





Michele Thursz is an independent curator, based in New York. Her current
project is Post Media Network located at http://www.michelethursz.com.
Previously she founded and directed Moving Image Gallery. Her recent
curatorial, production projects include "Brain Girl"+ "e" + "Pussy
Weeval", NYC,"Nown", Pittsburgh, PA, "Fetish: Human Fantastic" Borusan
Gallery, Istanbul.



Anne Barlow, Curator of Education and Media Programs at the New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New York, has organized numerous
exhibitions, residencies, new media and public art
projects in the UK and U.S.A. Her recent New Museum projects
include "Trust Me"; "Graham Gussin:States of Mind"; "lab
[au]: polygon den[c]ities"; "Videodrome II" and "Killer Instinct"
(with Rachel Greene, for December 2003).



For more information contact:

Binnaz Tukin , Director

btukin@borusansanat.com

Tel :212 - 292 06 55

Fax : 212 - 252 45 91