“The idea of this book is that we are sitting down with our jury of twelve Istanbuller artists. In one sense it is an arbitrary group of people, but it has been selected to give a snapshot verdict on the state of Istanbul, so while this
is not a coherent clique, coterie or even community and while they do not have a shared sense of direction, there are many conversations to be had around that table.”
Author and curator Alistair Hicks, whose book “The Global Art Compass New Dir ...