“From Tradition To Future” Group Art Exhibition

Date : 10 MARCH 2025-25 MARCH 2025
Clock : 12:00-18:00
Place : A Blok Fuaye Alanı

Explanation :

The group art exhibition titled, “From Tradition to the Future”, which brings together 70 works of 37 different contemporary Turkish artists working with different techniques on parchment and canvas, will be exhibited on March 10 – 25 at Izmir University of Economics A Block Foyer.

The Bergama Paper, aka parchment, which is a traditional material and spread from these ancient lands, is carried to the future as a work of art, in the hands of contemporary painters.

We would be delighted to see you at the opening of this special exhibition.

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Cocktail Reception: Monday, March 10 at 12.00, IUE A Block Foyer

PARCHMENT FROM PAST TO FUTURE

2nd century BC. There is a great rivalry between the Library of Pergamon and the Library of Alexandria. The writing medium of the time is papyrus, and manuscripts are stored in rolls. The Egyptian king Ptolemy V forbids the export of papyrus outside Egypt. When the Pergamon Library was in a difficult situation, King Eumenes II of Pergamon ordered to find a material to write on.

The librarian Krates manages to produce a leather from goat skin, suitable for writing. The name of Bergama at that time was Pergamon. This writing medium is called Carta Pergamena; Pergamon Paper. It became widespread in all languages, taking its name from Pergamon: Parchment, Pergament, Pergamena, Pergamino.

With the widespread use of parchment, the books written are freed from the roll form and become the Codex form we know today, and the encyclopedia emerges. After the arrival of paper in Anatolia around 900, it is gradually withdrawn from these lands. Paper reaches Europe 500 years after Anatolia. For this reason, until 1400, the writing material in Europe was parchment.

From the 15th century onwards, it was mostly used in bookbinding and painting. It was the material preferred by Baroque and Jugendstil artists to achieve natural skin tones. The American Declaration of Independence was written on parchment. Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, printed 45 of the first 180 copies of the Bible on parchment. Piri Reis created his world map on parchment. The British Parliament still maintains the tradition of writing all its decisions in 2 copies on parchment.

Today, parchment has found more contemporary uses, including wall panels and furniture upholstery. Some of the works in the exhibition are made on 40 x 40 cm real leather parchment glued to wood.