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by Georgia Fee
Ahmet Ogut at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive January 24th, 2010 - April 11th, 2010
Posted 1/30/10

Ahmet Öğüt's installation, Exploded City, developed for the Turkish Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has just arrived at the Berkeley Art Museum. It is Öğüt's first solo exhibition in the US. ERASURE When Robert Rauschenberg took drawing in hand and erased de Kooning, he committed an act of veneration and annihilation, an act of revolutionary proportions that shifted the history of art. Some called it defacement, others called it an outrage; Rauschenberg called it p... [more]