Exhibition: The Crafts, Once Again… | Ustaişi Beyoğlu

Exhibition Curator: Aslı Kıyak İngin
Exhibition Assistants: Efe Hepdoğan, Kıvanç Sert
Exhibition Design: Elif Öztekin
Exhibition Graphic Design: Zozan Kotan, Murat Boyraz
Process Photographs: Onur Erbil
Process Videos: Talat Akın, İshak Toraman

It was exhibited at the Beyoğlu Municipality Presidential Building Exhibition Hall and at the Suriye Passage, Avrupa Passage, Çiçek Passage, and Tokatlıyan Passage in Beyoğlu.

22.08.2016 - 18.09.2016

Photo: Onur Erbil

The Crafts, Once Again Exhibition, a display platform for process and product outputs of the Masterpiece Beyoğlu Project, was introduced between August 22 and September 18 at the Exhibition Hall of Beyoğlu Municipality Building in Şişhane as well as in the Suriye, Avrupa, Çiçek and Tokatlıyan Arcades in Beyoğlu. Within the scope of the exhibition, products and process visuals created as part of the Contemporary Apprenticeship and Creative Workshops program alongside works and process depictions by apprentices, masters and design students who were part of the sub-modules representing the workshops themselves. The glossary wall, which contained definitions of concepts such as craft, design, workshop, master and apprentice, was erected as a result of the interviews conducted together with masters, apprentices and students. Some of the creative works that were made at the Creative workshops for use in the arcades of Beyoğlu -such as the postbox at Suriye Arcade, photo exhibitions by apprentices and the lighting fixture at Avrupa Arcade- were displayed onsite, whereas others like the tea trays and cushions made for the Hazzopulo Arcade were displayed at the primary exhibition hall. The exhibition ensured that Masterwork Beyoğlu project reached out to broader masses.

The text taken from the Ustaişi Beyoğlu - Crafts Once Again Project Book.