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January 28 – March 12, 2011

Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş’s second solo exhibition New Forms of Rest and Entertainment expands and contracts the position of his first solo exhibition in 2009, Expecting Pleasure to Solve Problems.

Let’s list the key thoughts of the exhibition:

1- The myth of the individual: Should we too settle for the exaggerated statement that everyone has a distinct, unique personality? Or can we perhaps attempt to make out and identify the main personality-recipes shaped around self-interest, fear and stagnation? The latter may be more correct, but to keep the latter in mind whilst insisting on the former means giving everyone a chance.

2- The past: Is it possible to understand –to recognize and interpret, both today, and from records- the personal expressions, gestures, mimics of the past? If yes, can we follow the stations that connect these expressions to the present in order to bring the face of the future to life? Can we interfere in such traffic?

3- A branch of skepticism or a constant state of ‘am I missing something?’: Since absolute perception, perfect judgment, seamless continuity are impossible… …I must be missing something. Now or in the long run, does it make a difference?

Guided by these and other thoughts, New Forms of Rest and Entertainment carries news of the probable collapse of our perception of the external environment and heralds a new period of enlightenment for internal perception.