The paintings that won the exhibition award in the Dream Melodies Painting Competition held for the second time this year will be exhibited at the 3rd Artcontact Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair. The works of the competition themed Tchaikovsky “Yevgeny Onegin” opera were presented between 01-04 June by Dr. It can be seen at the Architect Kadir Topbaş Performance and Art Center between 11:00 and 21:00.
In the “Dream Melodies Painting Contest” organized for the second time this year by the EMART Foundation for the Empowerment of Young Talents, the first success award went to Marmara University Painting Education Department Student Emre Tura, the second success award went to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Department Student Ali Duman and the third place The Achievement Award was given to Yeditepe University Plastic Arts and Painting Department Student Sena Gündüz. The Special Jury Prize of the competition went to Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Fine Arts Faculty Painting Department Student Oğuzhan Ulutaş.
Works that won success and exhibition awards will meet with art lovers at the ArtContact Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair, which will be held for the third time between 1-4 June. By taking the motto of "art in the public sphere" at its center, the fair aims to spread the arts and make it reach wider audiences. ArtContact Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair will be held between 1-4 June with Dr. It will be held at the Architect Kadir Topbaş Show and Art Center and a shuttle bus will serve every 15 minutes from the Marmaray metro station to the fairground. The entrance fee to the fair, which can be visited between 11.00:21.00 and 100:50, will be XNUMX TL for students and XNUMX TL for students.
Support for Fine Arts Students
Selin Saraç, Member of the Board of Trustees of EMART Young Talents Foundation, who made evaluations about the competition, said, “While our foundation tries to support talented young people in their artistic production, it also cares about the spread of classical music and the increase of students' intellectual background. To the Artcontact team and Mr. We thank Bilgin Aygül for her support in making students visible.”
Bilgin Aygül, Chairman of the Board of Atis Fairs and ArtContact, said that they will continue to contribute to the visibility of art students. Aygül said, “This year, 72 thousand people visited ArtAnkara. We are aiming for a high participation in ArtContact, which we will organize for the third time yet, and we expect nearly 40 thousand visitors. It is not only the gallery and the buyer, but also everyone who is interested in art visits, gets together with the artists and discusses the art. sohbet We aim to organize an organization where they can organize and produce projects”.
The second success award winner of the competition, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Department Student Ali Duman, said, “I will be very happy to be visible with my award-winning work at the Artcontact Contemporary Art Fair. I would like to thank EMART Young Talents Foundation for its support to art and its efforts to make young artists visible. The project has been a great source of pride and motivation for me.”