Gallery Artstübli proudly announces their upcoming exhibition by Ata Bozaci. It is the third show in Ata Bozaci’s series of Fifteen Seconds of Fame, A Gallery of Digital Portraits coming to Basel after Zurich and Bern. It this series Ata Bozaci deals with the interesting phenomenon of selfies brought about by social media expansion. He explores newly established culture of self-representation through use of the one of the oldest and the most classical of themes – portraiture.
Ata Bozaci is Swiss artist of Turkish decent raised in Bern. After receiving a degree in design he grew into a versatile artist who deftly moves through disciplines that vary from drawings and traditional painting on canvas to the street art, graphic art and modular sculptures. Ata Bozaci started his artistic career in the graffiti back in the 1990s and has since become internationally recognized in the street art movement. He worked closely with the late Sigi Dare von Koeding, one of the most prolific artists of his generation who painted over thousand walls in thirteen countries. The two artists collaborated on several projects including painting the Gunter Sachs Castle. The Artstübli gallery presents Ata Bozaci’s show Fifteen Seconds of Fame, A Gallery of Digital Portraits that opens on May 8th 2015. The exhibition will run until May 29th in the Artstübli gallery in Basel.
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