Turkish artist shows one day in the media landscape in Germany
by Jane Whyatt and Ana Ribeiro
Most local newspaper publishers do not think of their papers as works of art.
But when “collected, indexed and bound,” they can be “both a unique reference library and an art object in which a day’s news is the material and the subject,” according to Turkish artist Banu Cennetoglu. Contemporary Art Daily calls her travelling installation involving German newspapers “a portrait of a society and a celebration of the printed newspaper, a tradition that in Germany dates from the 17th century and is now threatened by a consumer preference for digital formats.”
Collection of daily german newspapers by Banu…
