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13.12.2022
IELEV High School Visual Art Students in the Arter Museum
IELEV Private High School 10th grade Visual Arts students visited the exhibitions “This Play”, “Locus Solus”, “Bill Fontana: The New Voice of Io” and “Bill Fontana Silent Echoes: Notre Dame” in the Arter Museum.
The group exhibition entitled “This Play” was formed by combining the works of 59 artists. Aiming to use the game maker and game disruptor aspects of art together, it consists of works which were made to recognize and investigate the breaking of rules, originality, courage and going beyond the norm of games through art.
The “Locus Solus” exhibition was formed by the gathering of 27 artists. The aim of this exhibition is to reconcile the concept of 'nature', which it takes as its center, with different phenomena, concepts and senses. The works, created using different materials and methods, are inspired by the Latin phrase meaning "lonely place".
The exhibition entitled “Bill Fontana: The New Voice of Io” was made by Bill Fontana, who started his career as a composer and later decided to 'listen to the silence'. Video and audio recordings taken at various locations in and around the Bosphorus, including underwater and the Basilica Cistern, were used in the production of the exhibition. These recordings were brought together and recorded using the method that the artist called 'revoicing'.
Bill Fontana's Silent Echoes: Notre Dame exhibition makes the sounds of ten giant bells in Paris's famous Notre-Dame Cathedral, which were condemned to silence after the fire in 2019 as well as due to the CoronaVirus, to be heard via live transmission.
Thanks to this trip, our students had the opportunity to get to know modern art more closely, as well as learn to find and recognize art in every part of life. Interpreting five different works of art with the museum guide during the tour, contributed to the awakening of aesthetic consciousness and the acquisition of an objective beauty perception in students.
