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Kutluğ Ataman
Kutluğ Ataman, född 1961 i Istanbul, Turkiet, existerar filmare samt konstnär. denne bor samt arbetar inom Istanbul samt London.
Han studerade nära Universitet inom Kalifornien, Los Angeles, USA, där han fick sin Master of Fine Arts (MFA) 1988.
Han arbetar främst tillsammans med rörlig foto och hans arbeten handlar ofta angående ovanliga livsöden och marginaliserade personer samt deras identitetsskapande. Ofta blandar han fiktiva och dokumentära historier vilket skapar en ifrågasättande från verklighetsbegreppet samt möjlighetet mot objektivitet.
Hans filmer samt konstverk äger visats vid många platser runt angående i världen. Hans inledande film plats dramat Serpent’s Tale (Karanlık Sular) ifrån 1994, vilket utspelade sig i en nedgånget Istanbul. Filmen fick stor uppmärksamhet och den visades vid en rad stora filmfestivaler runt angående i världen och blev också prisad med ett rad utmärkelser. Hans andra film Lola+Bilidikid från 1998 valdes mot öppningsfilm till Panoramasektionen på grund av den 49:e Berlins filmfestival.
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Kutluğ Ataman
Turkish film director and artist (born 1961)
Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul Turkey) is an acclaimed Turkish-American[1]contemporary artist and feature filmmaker. Ataman's films are known for their strong characterization and humanity. His early art works examine the ways in which people and communities create and rewrite their identities through self-expression, blurring the line between reality and fiction. His later works focus on history and geography as man-made constructs. He won the Carnegie Prize for his works Kuba in 2004. In the same year he was nominated for Turner Prize for his work Twelve.
Biography
[edit]Ataman was born in Istanbul in 1961; his father was a diplomat. As a young man, he was involved in filming the events of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, which led to his imprisonment and torture.[2] After his release, in 1981 he left Turkey and moved to California, remaining there for 15 years. He graduated in 1985 wi
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40-channel video installation on monitors (color, sound), TV stands, armchairs
Videos with varying durations (from 39 min 50 sec to 65 min 36 sec)
Overall dimensions variable
Commissioned by Artangel, London; Co-produced by 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Theater der Welt, Stuttgart; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Donated to Reina Sofia by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Küba is a community of men, women, and children who live in one of the most notorious ghettos in Istanbul, a shantytown slum that started as a hideout for left-wing militants and other outsiders, refugees from the "East" in the 1960s. Since then it has developed into a cohesive society, a security zone presenting an impenetrable solidarity to the outside world and providing protection against violent assaults and political terror. Today, Küba consists of several hundred temporary r