{"id":57369,"date":"2015-08-05T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T07:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57369"},"modified":"2015-08-05T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T07:47:38","slug":"baksi-museum-celebrates-anniversary-with-special-exhibition-and-concert-57369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/baksi-museum-celebrates-anniversary-with-special-exhibition-and-concert-57369\/","title":{"rendered":"Baksi Museum celebrates anniversary with special exhibition and concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Baksi-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"Baksi Museum\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Baksi-Museum.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Baksi-Museum-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Baksi-Museum-610x344.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>A remote eastern Turkish village may be an unlikely host to a contemporary arts center but this month will see the Baksi Museum celebrate its 10th anniversary.<\/h1>\n<p>The modernist building, located in a village 45 kilometers [27 miles] from the Black Sea city of Bayburt, will hold special exhibitions and concerts to commemorate &#8220;turning from a dream into a reality&#8221;, according to organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known musicians Bulent Ortacgil, Erkan Ogur and Ismail Hakki Demircioglu will perform and the museum will hold an exhibition called \u2018ON\u2019 [Ten], curated by Istanbul-based German artist Marcus Graf.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that the exhibition would reveal works by Turkish contemporary artists, folk art, and ethnographically important artifacts, Graf said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the pluralist character of Baksi Museum, ON is formed with a curatorial strategy that interconnects artworks, and artifacts in order to reveal the collection\u2019s multi-layered character, and to discuss aesthetic and contextual relations between various fields of artistic and cultural practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Graf said the August 12 show in the village of only 480 people would break down barriers between high art and folk art.<\/p>\n<p>The museum was founded in 2005 by fine arts professor Husamettin Kocan, who is a native of Bayburt.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe awarded the museum the Council of Europe Museum Prize (Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remote eastern Turkish village may be an unlikely host to a contemporary arts center but this month will see the Baksi Museum celebrate its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,56,172,174,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-events","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}