Digital exhibition prepared in memory of the versatile artist Osman Hamdi Bey, who has an important place in the history of Turkish art, met with art-lovers at Marmara University Sultanahmet Campus.
In the exhibition opened by the Directorate of Communications within the scope of the "360 Culture and Art" project, where digital exhibitions will be displayed with the hologram and special projection technology, nearly 50 special works of Osman Hamdi Bey, the pioneer of contemporary Turkish painting art, are presented to the visitors with three-dimensional hologram and special projection devices.
Speaking to the press about the exhibition, Mesut Onat, Istanbul Provincial Office Director of the Directorate of Communications, said, “As the Directorate, we continue to reproduce our historical culture and knowledge through the language of the modern-day and its main ideas, by using all the possibilities in the digital sense."
Onat stated that, within this scope, they organised the exhibition, in which Osman Hamdi Bey's works and life were introduced, and noted the following:
“In the first room, the life of Osman Hamdi Bey is conveyed digitally. In the other rooms of ours, we will be able to see digital projections of approximately 50 of his works. The exhibition will enable all art-lovers to observe our historical and cultural accumulation once again. “
Osman Hamdi Bey who is regarded as the founder of museology in Turkey and who performed major breakthroughs in the Tanzimat era in terms of science, art, archaeology and museology gained recognition worldwide especially with his works “The Tortoise Trainer” and “Arms Dealer”.
In the exhibition alongside Hamdi Bey’s work, his life and the era he lived through is included in the digital media via custom-designed projection techniques, too.
With the necessary measures taken against the Coronavirus (Covid-19), the exhibition can be visited between 11.00 and 18.00 until November 9, 2020.