Featuring:
Serkan Adin, Haluk Akakçe, Vahap Avsar, Kezban Arca Batibeki, Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, Gökçe Çelikel, Taner Ceylan, Ahmet Elhan, Extramücadele, Mustafa Horasan, Peter Hristoff, Gözde İlkin, Burhan Kum, Bahar Oganer, Soner Ön, İrfan Önürmen, Arif Özakça, Sefa Saglam, Yaşam Şaşmazer, Gülay Semercioğlu, Canan Şenol, Erinç Seymen, Hale Tenger, Nazif Topçuoğlu, Elif Uras, Ebru Uygun, Halil Vurucuoğlu, and Ekrem Yalçındağ.

Opening Reception and Book Launch:
Wednesday, June 2, 6 – 8 p.m.
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery
39 East 78th Street at Madison Ave, 3rd Floor

Exhibition Dates:
June 2 - September 1, 2010
Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Symposium:
Thursday, June 3, 5:30-7.30 p.m.
Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue New York, NY 10021

For more information, please contact LTMH at 212.249.7695 or ltmh@ltmhgallery.com

The American Turkish Society and Moon and Stars Project are proud to support "Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now", a much-anticipated exhibition of work by contemporary Turkish artists. The exhibition will offer the work of 27 artists living in Turkey, as well as the U.S. and Europe, including past Moon and Stars Project grant recipients and will present the work of both well-known and established Turkish artists, and emerging artists whose work will be on view for the first time in the U.S.

An illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, and will include essays by Maryam Homayoun Eisler, noted art collector; Emin Mahir Balcioglu, art historian and Director, Contemporary Istanbul; and Sefa Saglam, Director of Exhibitions, The Neue Galerie, New York.

As Emin Mahir Balcioglu, Director, Contemporary Istanbul, notes in the catalogue essay, “Contemporary art from Turkey is in the limelight (at last); its debut has been delayed for several reasons, but today, supported by a vibrant emerging economy and an ever increasing group of collectors, it has begun to thrive. This is all very new and remarkable; the fact that Turkish artists are beginning to showcase their works not only in their own country but abroad, and as the days go by are more and more acknowledged, proves that there are considerable transformations at hand.”

For exhibition highlights click here.

Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now is dedicated in loving memory of Ali Can Ertug.