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Uras Kızıl

URAS KIZIL

Uras Kızıl is an Istanbul based art historian, critic and researcher.

Kızıl graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University cum laude in 2015. He studied at the Berlin Freie Universität with the Erasmus program in 2014. Upon his return, he wrote his undergraduate thesis titled Romantic Thought and Romanticism in 19th Century Painting. In 2018, he graduated from Istanbul Technical University Art History Department with his thesis titled The Effects of Romanticism on 20th Century Art. His master's thesis was supported by ITU BAP. Kızıl continues his doctoral studies at Istanbul Technical University.

Working as the archive manager of Galeri Nev Istanbul between 2018-2020, Kızıl's texts have been published in publications including such as e-skop, Manifold, Argonotlar, K24, as well as in exhibition catalogs and books since 2015.

Kızıl, who is a member of AICA, teaches at the Department of Art Management at Kültür University.

POSTS BY THE WRITER

The Appearance of Objects

19 March 2022 Sat

“People can see objects and they can think about the causes of them on their own.” ¹
Joseph Beuys

“I count myself amongst those living in ignorant bliss, unable to fathom how a pen is put together
or how the paper I write on evolved from a plant.” ²
Edward Burtynsky

Dissipation of the silhouette

21 September 2021 Tue

“We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know;
we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine. We want the poetry of life.”
- Percy Shelley, A Defense of Poetry

Another Place / Another Present

23 February 2021 Tue

The Manifestation of Ambiguity in Art:
Jim Campbell's Seal Rock

25 December 2020 Fri

The series of articles I prepared for Borusan Contemporary Blog titled The Transformation of the Landscape Image takes the works in the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection as a point of departure.

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