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 EXHIBITION DESIGN

  
The Ottoman Bank Museum had to be a museum.

What was needed was a museographic way-a language-to exhibit material consisting of two-dimensional objects: photographs, drawings, documents, texts.

This language would set the difference between a museum and an exhibition, between the permanent and the ephemeral.

This language had to derive from the visual structure linking all elements among themselves, from spatial organization to exhibition design, or from lighting concept to the choice of objects.

It also had to be linked to the consumption process, to the resistance of the permanent to repetition, to the need for alternative readings, to the feeling of non-finality even at the end of the display…

And to the cold-warm opposition lying in the relation between the 'added' and 'existing' exhibition spaces…

The basic concept behind the exhibition design was that of "suspended walls" within the walls of the surrounding historic building.

Objects and documents would have to be placed, preserved, protected, (and illuminated) within cavities on these suspended walls.

The historic safe room at the center was also on display. Therefore, the objects that would be exhibited within the safe room had to be embedded in "new" elements.


  BÜLENT ERKMEN  
  Bülent Erkmen was born in March 1947 / Graduated, İstanbul National Academy of Fine Arts (DGSA), Graphic Department (1972) / General Secretary of DGSA National Film Archives (1970) / Member of the teaching staff at the DGSA (1976) / Head of the Graphic Department of the DGSA Higher Institute for Applied Industrial Arts / Founding member of Reklamevi Advertising Agency (1980) / Redesigning of Cumhuriyet, a leading Turkish daily (1983) / Paper titled "Urban Identity" for City Furniture seminar / Paper titled "Fashion and Style" for Fashion Talks Seminar (1986) / Publishing director of "Writings" (1987) / A feature on Bülent Erkmen in 256th issue of Graphis (1988) / Best Graphic Designer of the Year Award in the Annual Graphic Design Exhibition, İstanbul (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989) / Design of all covers for the design culture & architecture magazine Arredamento Dekorasyon / Solo exhibition of posters in Art Poster Gallery, Lambsheim, Germany / Work titled "self-promotion" for the 1st International Kiosk Art Biennial in Munich, Germany (1989) / Design of the book titled "Book" and exhibition titled "The Making of a Book" at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art / Co-direction for a theater play titled "Everest My Lord" (1997) / Work titled "61st and 64th pages" for edition under the subject "wall" of magazine Fol / "Quotation" project for the book "Where Does Europe End?" / "Utopia" project for the magazine İstanbul /

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  BÜLENT ERKMEN  
  Multivision show titled "The Image of Typography, The Typography of Image" for the 7th Forum Typographie meeting in Stuttgart, Germany (1990) / Work titled "self-promotion II" for the magazine World of Art / 70th New York Art Directors Awards, Merit Award for the book "Book" / Title topic, profile and interview in the 23rd issue of the magazine Arredamento Dekorasyon (1991) / Paper for a meeting titled "The Organs of a Book" (1992) / 15 minutes TV programme on his works and opinions / Paper for the meeting upon the subject "Problems of Contemporaneity in Graphic Design" (1993) / Corporate identity of the İstanbul Culture and Art Foundation / İS - TA - NB - UL poster series for Film, Theatre, Music and Jazz Festivals organized by İstanbul Culture and Arts Foundation / Presented in the '94 edition of "Who's Who in Graphic Arts" (1994) / Left Reklamevi-Young & Rubicam and founded BEK Design and Consultancy (1995) / Second prize for the poster "Inside-Outside" in the Trnava Poster Triennial'97 / Bronze Medal for the poster "Inside-Outside" in the Helsinki International Poster Biennial'97 / The book titled "ISBN: 975 - 342 - 142 - 7" constituted of logo works was published by Metis Publications / "Self-promotion III" for the Bülent Erkmen web site / Design and co-concept of the book titled "Duo" where a real writer and a real actor come face to face / A solo exhibition titled "Bülent Erkmen, Arbeiten, Rundum Kunst u. Kultur" opened at the Gutenberg Museum and Deutsches Plakat Museum, Germany, catalogue published /
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  BÜLENT ERKMEN  
  Awarded bronze medal for poster "Equal" (originally made for the project "Sharing Jerusalem" in Telaviv) in 16th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw / Poster named "Dear David, your luggage is safe with me" for David Tartakover's project titled "luggage", Paris / Serial posters for the plays of the İstanbul National Theatre, "Quotations" series (1995), "Head of Directors" series (1996), "Code" series (1997), "Players" series (2001) / Exhibition design for the exhibition "History of Banknotes" (1998) / Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) membership / Poster for the China International Art + Design Expo'99 / "Self-promotion IV" for AGI Seminar'99 in Zürich (a film project) / Three High Quality Design Award for the "German Prize for Communications Design'99, An international exhibition titled "Graphic Artists Around the World", Echirolles, France (2000), Icograda Excellence Award for poster "Equal" in Lahdi Poster Biennial (2001) / Four biennial solo exhibition and catalogues ("91-92", "93-94", "95-96", "97-98", "99-00") / More than 80 of his works are in the collections of some museums dealing with graphic design, in France, United States, Germany, Finland, Poland and Switzerland / Continues teaching at the Graphic Arts Department of Mimar Sinan University, İstanbul
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