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  Louise Markus

                       Pages from the Book of Istanbul


                                                      In May of 2012 Louise Markus travels to Istanbul to work and stay at
                           
                Halka Art Project.  She creates a series of collages based on 16th
                                        century Islamic miniature illuminations, inserting depictions of

                                                       contemporary daily Istanbul life within the miniature framework
                                                       and patterns. The illuminations, previously available only to the
                                        aristocracy is appropriated  to  form  a new
paradigm in  which
                                        stories of Istanbul's contradictions are celebrated by ordinary
                                        people: the  lap top user  smokes a nargile in an internet  café, two

                                                        Muslim women wait for the Tramvay sitting next to a poster
                                                        advertising a heavy metal festival.  After 2 months in Istanbul,
                                                        Markus creates "Pages from the Book of Istanbul", an exhibition at
                                                        Kabine Nadire, a local gallery.  The show features 6 collages, the
                                                        original charcoal  studies for the collages and an installation of the
                                                        drawings blown up and assembled as a  maquette street parade to
                                                        fit the gallery's showcase window.
                                                                                                      
                                                           


                                                             

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                                                        Guns & Roses  24" x 30"  acrylic on canvas   2016


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                                                             Hammam 24" x 30"  acrylic on canvas   2016


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                                         Garden of the Great Compatibility   24" x 30"  acrylic on canvas   2016

Charcoal Studies

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Collage

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12" x 16" paper and paint collage 2012

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12" x 16" paper and paint collage 2012

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12" x 16" paper & paint collage 2012

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12" x 16" paper & paint collage 2012

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12" x 16" paper & paint collage 2012

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12" x 16" paper & paint collage 2012

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8 x 10 in inkjet print
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8 x 10 in inkjet print
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8 x 10 in inkjet print

Installation

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