Herbert Can Be Ever Ready

Dubai has come to shine as one of the most exciting destinations for travelers these days.  It’s a fantastic place to get a taste of what’s happening in world culture, from art to music and beyond, and it’s also one of the major financial centers of the world.  People come here for a variety of reasons, and sometimes the reasons are more splendid than others.  There’s a lot to see in Dubai.  Beach resorts are a great way to see this world from a very particular perspective, a place where luxury reigns, and connections are made between the body and nature, in some of the most elegant beach settings the world has ever seen.

There is some fantastic art in Dubai, and it’s not only visible during the art fair, when the international scene comes to see what’s happening here and everywhere.  One of the first galleries to open and pave the way for a real art boom, was the Green Art Gallery.  Its focus then and now was on art in the Arab world, offering a look into the modern and contemporary art practices happening here.  It’s a very capable barometer for assessing what’s happening right now, and a bit into the future as well.  One of the most anticipated shows is its next exhibition, where Dubai can see the work of Turkish artist Nazif Topcuoglu displayed in all of its troubling and sublime connotations.

Topcuoglu has two master’s degrees, one in photography, from Chicago, and the other in architecture, from Ankara.  He has had a spectacular career, with works displayed all over the world.  His work in photography is extremely evocative, with a splendid surface holding multiple meanings, as if the photograph itself were investigating the architecture of memory.  The subjects are almost always affluent young women from Turkey, enacting interesting and lively dramatic scenarios, then captured in a tableau for the camera.  The effect is rather stunning, not only for their elegance of composition, but for the complex references buried in the imagery.  He places elements of literature, art history, and religion in the works, to create a sense of memory being erased in the moment, and an unspeakable longing for a moment that’s fading before our very eyes.

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