{"id":2670,"name":"","email":"kaat.vannieuwenhuyse@muhka.be","language_id":1,"permalink":"huseyin-bahri-alptekin","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1957-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Hüseyin Bahri ","lastname":"Alptekin","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Hüseyin Bahri  Alptekin","date_of_death":"2007-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","cached_name_asc":"Alptekin, Hüseyin Bahri ","stream_count_app":148,"gender":"male","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/029/862/large/Huseyin_Bahri_Alptekin_%28Photo_by_Dragos_Alexandrescu_and_Patricia_Rodas%29.jpg?1441890167","poster_credits":"(c)photo: Dragos Alexandrescu - Patricia Rodas","media_count":3,"items_count":29,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe Turkish artist \u003cstrong\u003eH\u0026uuml;seyin Bahri Alptekin\u003c/strong\u003e (1957-2007) studied\u0026nbsp;aesthetics, sociology, and art history at the universities of Ankara and Paris. In the beginning, the young academic takes a philosophical professional approach as a critic, photographer and author, but from the nineties onwards he becomes more and more active in the visual arts, with a strong thematic interest for globalisation, migration and cultural interaction.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eInspired by major geopolitical changes taking place in society \u0026ndash; to be specific, the unstoppable force of capitalism, which takes place in all layers of society and almost everywhere in the world \u0026ndash; he concentrates on his artistic research, on the quality, the objective truth and morality of the overriding consumption rationale. Concretely, he starts to show the dreams and illusions, which are presented to the population of the world as real, by including them in his metaphoric installations, slogan-like neon signs and confrontational photographic series.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAlptekin belongs to the first generation of Turkish artists, who were active and influential throughout the world. As the protagonist of the of the modern Turkish art scene, he is invited to represent his country at the Venice Biennale of 2007, with the installation \u003cem\u003eDon\u0026rsquo;t Complain\u003c/em\u003e. He exhibited previously at the Biennale of S\u0026atilde;o Paulo (1998), Manifesta 5 (2004), and was granted the UNESCO prize for the entirety of his oeuvre, which can be seen as the aesthetic conclusion of sociological research and political statement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAlptekin strives for a radical ethnical positioning in his art, without raising the slightest suggestion of moral superiority. Nostalgia and melancholy are softly interwoven with transience and leniency. With that, Alptekin has always remained true to his academic origins: He is an aesthete and a moral philosopher camouflaged as an artist, and vice versa.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDe Turkse kunstenaar \u003cstrong\u003eH\u0026uuml;seyin Bahri Alptekin\u003c/strong\u003e (1957-2007) studeert esthetica, sociologie en kunstfilosofie aan verschillende universiteiten in Ankara en Parijs. Aanvankelijk neemt de jonge academicus een beschouwende professionele positie in als criticus, fotograaf en auteur, maar vanaf de jaren negentig begeeft hij zich meer en meer op het vlak van de beeldende kunsten, met een sterke thematische interesse voor globalisering, migratie en culturele interactie.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eGe\u0026iuml;nspireerd door de grote geopolitieke veranderingen die zich in de maatschappij voltrekken \u0026minus; meer bepaald de onstuitbare doorwerking van het kapitalisme, in alle geledingen van de maatschappij en bijna overal ter wereld \u0026minus; gaat hij zich toeleggen op zijn artistiek onderzoek naar de kwaliteit, de waarheid en de moraliteit van de allesoverheersende consumptiegedachte. Concreet gaat hij de dromen en illusies die de bevolking wereldwijd worden voorgespiegeld, verbeelden in metaforische installaties, sloganeske neonlichten en confronterende fotoreeksen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAlptekin behoort tot de eerste generatie Turkse kunstenaars die wereldwijd actief en invloedrijk waren. Als protagonist van de hedendaagse Turkse kunstsc\u0026egrave;ne mag hij in 2007 zijn land vertegenwoordigen op de Bi\u0026euml;nnale van Veneti\u0026euml; met de welluidende installatie \u003cem\u003eDon\u0026rsquo;t Complain\u003c/em\u003e. Voorheen is hij al te zien op de bi\u0026euml;nnale van S\u0026atilde;o Paulo (1998), Manifesta 5 (2004), en ontvangt hij de Unesco-prijs voor het geheel van zijn oeuvre, dat gezien kan worden als de esthetische slotsom van een sociologisch onderzoek en een politiek statement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIn zijn kunst streeft hij een radicale ethische positionering na, zonder de minste indruk van morele superioriteit te geven. Nostalgie en weemoed worden zachtmoedig vervlochten met vluchtigheid en vergeefsheid. Daarmee is Alptekin zijn academische herkomst altijd trouw gebleven: hij is estheet en moraalfilosoof gecamoufleerd als kunstenaar, en omgekeerd.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH\u0026uuml;seyin Bahri Alptekin\u003c/strong\u003e (1957-2007) \u0026eacute;tait fascin\u0026eacute; par la diff\u0026eacute;rence entre ce qu\u0026rsquo;une chose promet et sa r\u0026eacute;alit\u0026eacute; banale. Cette promesse peut r\u0026eacute;sider dans le nom d\u0026rsquo;un h\u0026ocirc;tel bon march\u0026eacute; \u0026eacute;voquant l\u0026rsquo;exp\u0026eacute;rience d\u0026rsquo;un lieu lointain, ou dans la marque d\u0026rsquo;un produit fabriqu\u0026eacute; en s\u0026eacute;rie simulant de mani\u0026egrave;re peu convaincante le luxe ou l\u0026rsquo;exotisme. Alptekin avait pris conscience des effets profonds du capitalisme mondialis\u0026eacute; sur la vie quotidienne, observ\u0026eacute; le mouvement des personnes et des biens \u0026agrave; travers le monde, \u0026eacute;tudi\u0026eacute; les manifestations du capitalisme sauvage \u0026eacute;mergeant dans des r\u0026eacute;gions consid\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute;es comme les confins recul\u0026eacute;s de la modernit\u0026eacute; occidentale et il se servait de leurs indicateurs et de leurs vestiges \u0026ndash; les traces laiss\u0026eacute;es par une mobilit\u0026eacute; croissante, par l\u0026rsquo;essor des \u0026eacute;changes commerciaux et de la circulation d\u0026rsquo;images \u0026ndash; comme mat\u0026eacute;riaux de sa pratique artistique et comme moyen de contemplation de tout ce qu\u0026rsquo;ils repr\u0026eacute;sentaient. Il se concentrait sur une pratique artistique tr\u0026egrave;s diversifi\u0026eacute;e, qui incluait des photographies, des sculptures, des installations, des textes en n\u0026eacute;on, des vid\u0026eacute;os et des collages, qui refl\u0026egrave;te\u003cem\u003e \u003c/em\u003eles qualit\u0026eacute;s mat\u0026eacute;rielles prosa\u0026iuml;ques de la \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;pacotille mondiale\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; apparue avec le flux de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;conomie de march\u0026eacute; capitaliste transnationale.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eMembre de la premi\u0026egrave;re g\u0026eacute;n\u0026eacute;ration d\u0026rsquo;artistes turcs consid\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute;s comme actifs dans le monde entier et influent au niveau national, Alptekin est consid\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute; comme une des figures les plus significatives de la sc\u0026egrave;ne artistique confirm\u0026eacute;e d\u0026rsquo;Istanbul.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"TR","place":"Izmir","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"TR","place":"Istanbul","category":{"en":"Died in","nl":"Overleden in","fr":"Décédé en"}}]}