31.st Turgut Pura Art Prize will be the first international one. The prize which gets its name from the acclaimed sculptor Turut PURA will award prizes this year for painting, sculpture and life time achievement in art.
This year the organization commitee decided to award Burhan Dogancay for life time achievement. Dogancay will accept this award this month in Bodrum but artists still have time to apply for painting and sculpture prizes till 2012-04-26.
The winners will recieve 5000.TL each (approximately 2500 USD)and all selected art will be exhibited as a grand exhibition. The show will be between May 25th and June 3rd at Izmir Painting and Sculpture Museum.
The foundation is established by Gungor PURA in 1981. The organization comitee is led by Kayhan Kirmizigul and the concultants are; Genco GULAN and Marcus GRAF.
Jury for painting: Burcu PELVANOGLU, Greg WOLFF, Marcus GRAF and Turan AKSOY.
Jury for sculpture: Genco GULAN, Gunnur OZSOY, Mike BERG and Seckin PiRiM.
This year for the first time the applications can be made online through http://turgutpura.com/basvuru/basvuru_eng.php
OR by sending an image of your art together with your bio to: info@turgutpura.com and/or festivalconceptint@gmail.com
For more info please contact:
Neslihan KiRMiZiGUL
neslihan.kirmizigul@gmail.com
Tel: 90 232 422 3286
Link:
http://www.turgutpura.com/
Address:
iZMiR Painting and Sculpture MUSEUM
Mithatpasa Caddesi No: 94
Turkey
Genco Gülan is a conceptual artist with an interest in new media and performance art. He studied Political Science and Art at Bogazici University then he pursued an MA degree on Media Studies at New School, New York. He got prizes from BP, New School, Lions, E.M.A.F. Nominated for the European Art prize in 2012 and got selected as a finalist. Gülan made solo shows in Istanbul, Ankara, Graz, Berlin, New York, Seoul and Zagreb. His works are presented in museums such as; Centre Pompidou, Pera, ZKM, MAM, Rio and La Triennale di Milano. He participated to festivals such as; Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art and Istanbul Festival. His net-art pieces have been exhibited at irishmuseumofmodernart.org, rhizome.org and kanonmedia.com/ His works listed in required reading lists such as; City University, New York, Rice University and U.C. Santa Barbara. Gülan gave conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts, Köln University and New York Institute of Technology. Genco Gülan and his art has been referred to by Newsweek, Herald Tribune, NY Arts, Art in America, Art News, Das Kunst, Beaux Arts and Idomenee. His monography edited Dr. Marcus Graf is published by Revolver Berlin the title "Conceptual Colors of genco Gulan". His book "De-Constructing the Digital Revolution" is published by LAP and both of the books are available at amazon.com/ Genco Gülan was in the Advisory Board of Balkan Biennial, Thessaloniki and International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore. He is the founder of the Web Biennial. Currently he teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Bogazici University.
Michael Connor