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Common Times
About the cultural relationships
between Holland & Turkey
Deniz Erbaş
Art trade between Holland and Turkey, although not centuries old like
their diplomatic relations, has followed an abundant and prolific progression.
Art from Turkey was presented to the Dutch audiences first in
1948, in Amsterdam. National Exhibition of Turkish Art, comprised of 50
modernist painters from Turkey, presented a rendition of the parallels
drawn between the identity of the nation state and the production of
modern art within the context of diplomatic relations of the time.
The era of world exhibitions where the
centre received the communities and
cultures from the periphery, expired
simultaneously with the collapse of
the first, second and third world orders
and apprehension. Demolition of the
Berlin wall, end of the bipolar world
order, advances in the communication
technologies built the circumstances
for a postmodern global world. Now a
“global” world was articulated, and for
the first time in history, a network system
span with social interactions having
the potential to embrace all communities
was spreading fast around
the world. [1] In the last thirty years,
optimistic or pessimistic, positive and
negative many theories were developed
on the political, social, cultural
and artistic impacts of this global age.
Considering the impacts of globalization
on the artistic field these outcomes
are detectable:
▸ Spread of the biennial system and
western art institutions to non-western
geographies and the spatial extension
of social interaction patterns of these
institutions,
▸ Increase in the mobility of artists, curators
and art specialists around the
world,
▸ Creation of global communication
networks,
▸ Emergence of a global work and art
[1]
For more details on “global society”: SHAW Martin, Global Society and International Relations, Cambridge,
Polity Press, 1994.
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