What a Museum Should Really Look Like
2013
5.0 x 5.0 cm
Serkan Özkaya has primarily encountered Western art works in books and magazines before experiencing them in person. This encounter shaped his entire oeuvre, in which replication and appropriation assume a central importance. Özkaya focuses on concepts such as the tension between the original and the copy; the institutionalising of a work of art; and strategies of liberating the work from the institutional context into everyday life. He challenges the ways in which a work of art is monetised in the art market via uniqueness and artificial scarcity, and develops works that can be reproduced ad infinitum without losing their value. His large-scale installation
serkan özkaya (1973 –)
Explore Serkan Özkaya's innovative conceptual art – sculpture, installation & digital works examining appropriation & reproduction. Exhibited globally at 21C Museum Hotels.
About this artwork
- Title: What a Museum Should Really Look Like
- Artist: serkan özkaya
- Year: 2013
- Original dimensions: 5.0 x 5.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Color hue: Green Spectrum
- Perceived brightness: balanced