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From Novel to Reality: Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence Unlocks Layers of Love and City Life
When I read Pamuk’s novel “The Museum of Innocence” in 2010, I felt a surprising joy. The narrative of the work is dense, bright and sad. It not only talks about love, but also talks about what an ideal person looks like. I wrote a review about this at that time, called “When Will Great Writers Start Talking About Love”. In 2012, I learned that Pamuk had actually built a “Museum of Innocence”, which I found very interesting. He had materialized literature, and Istanbul became a place I clearly wanted to visit. In short, I came to visit the Museum of Innocence with mixed emotions as I had a good…
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Beyond the Banana: The Flowing Art World in the Age of the Internet
In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created a very interesting work of art called “Comedian”, but in fact it was just a piece of paper taped to the Bananas on the wall. Perhaps the artist considered the length of the tape, the softness of light and shadow, the color and curvature of the banana, and the perfect integration of banana, shadow and tape. Perhaps even this banana contains the regret that the artist could not afford to eat bananas when he was a child, but these words still cannot be changed This is a fact about a banana because it can be eaten, and has been eaten several times. The…
