Kutlig Ataman
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Ataman was born in Istanbul in 1961; his father was a diplomat. As a young man, he was involved in filming the events of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, which led to his imprisonment and torture.[2] After his release, in 1981 he left Turkey and moved to California, remaining there for 15 years. He graduated in 1985 with a BA in Film from the University of California and completed his MFA in 1988. As of 2004 he lives in Istanbul, London and Barcelona.[3]
Openly gay himself, Ataman's work often explores sexual identity and gender.[4] In 1997 he filmed Turkish opera diva Semiha Berksoy, and his piece Women Who Wear Wigs featured four Turkish women – a revolutionary whose face remained obscured, well-known journalist and breast cancer survivor Nevval Sevindi, an anonymous devout Muslim student, and a transsexual.[5]
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Kutlug Ataman's 'Animated Words'
Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman's video installation series, "Animated Words," has gone on display in Hong Kong as part of an exhibition titled: "LOVE Long: Robert Indiana and Asia". The filmmaker has long been inspired by Islamic calligraphy, in which artists carefully conceal an image within written text. Ataman activates images on a rotating axis so that the text and its meaning are revealed only briefly while the words becomes images on their own. The exhibition can be seen until June at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre. Subscribe: http://trt.world/Showcase Livestream: http://trt.world/ytlive Facebook: http://trt.world/facebook Twitter: http://trt.world/twitter Instagram: http://trt.world/instagram Visit our website: http://trt.world
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Kutluğ Ataman: Summer Exhibition 2016
Turkish artist and filmmaker Kutluğ Ataman talks about his work 'THE PORTRAIT OF SAKIP SABANCI',...
Kutlug Ataman’s ‘Animated Words’
Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman's video installation series, "Animated Words," has gone on display in Hong...
