Murat Germen’s solo exhibition “Ankara: From Pioneering Modernism
to Revivalist Mimicry and Fake Futurism” is on view at
Erimtan Archaeology and Art Museum through September 30th,
2015.
This new exhibition by Murat Germen as a photographer, with a
background as an architect, aims to compare the various urban
planning tactics applied by various authorities during the 90 plus
year history of the Turkish Republic by jucstapozing the visuals of
the traces, scars that diverse ideologies left on the city. Three to 8
meter panoramas, hundreds of size A4 documentary photographs,
in addition to some computer-transformed photographic images
are on display in order to be able to compare the present and the
past of the city.
Murat Germen, who employs photography as a tool of research
and expression, notes that in this exhibition, he addresses the superficial
impositions against the city and culture; with total disregard
for the continuity of cultural heritage, the public and green
spaces. Germen adds, “Evidently, the result is imitation and the
excessive high-rise construction phenomenon which comes along
with it”.
