ALEV EBÜZZİYA SİESBYE EXHIBITION
İstanbul︎ 2002︎ Exhibition ︎ Nevzat Sayın





The Turkish and Islamic Works Museum Grand Hall will be used for the Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye Exhibition. The aim is to preserve the current state of the hall as much as possible, where significant examples of the last thousand years of a millennia-long history are exhibited.
For the vessels of Alev Ebüzziya, who works with simplified basic forms built on a complex infrastructure, the intercultural objects of the past time exhibited in this hall are of particular importance as they constitute ‘distant examples’. Therefore, the exhibition is designed to embrace tranquility as much as possible, with a platform specifically crafted to showcase the vessels clearly.
While the bowls on the 180 cm × 1260 cm platform create their own history, the few bowls placed in the existing museum stands take their place in the great history without being directly associated with it.
Sensually simple, emotionally complex, seemingly anonymous yet unique bowls; we believe that the the exhibition space and display layout are the right one.