Vocational School of Justice
FROM WASTES TO THE MAGICAL WORLD OF DESIGN
Lecturers of Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design created toys, figurines from waste materials and costumes from rags. The exhibition of creations out of waste materials will be on display at Çetin Emeç Art Gallery until June 10.
Birds, small toys made from screws, keys, dolls made from bottle corks, cables, and outfits from rags were exhibited at “Steampunk: Retro Future Exhibition” titled event organized by Asst. Prof. Dr. Dilek Himam, Research Asst. Elif Tekcan, Lecturer Jörn Fröhlich, graduate Cansu İncesu of Department of Fine Arts and Design. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgen Osman Demirbaş, Vice Dean of IUE Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, worked on the spatial design of the exhibition while students, guided by Lecturer Andreas Treske and Research Asst. Emre Kırtunç of Department of IUE Faculty of Communication, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, prepared videos.
‘No past no future…’
Asst. Prof. Dilek Himam, gave information about the exhibition and said that starting point for the exhibition was Steampunk, a sub-culture movement that came out towards the end of 1980’s, Himam stated the following:
“Steampunk movement presents a mixed aesthetical approach that combines steam-powered machinery of the Industrial Revolution with theVictorian era aesthetics. This approach was misinterpreted in the recent years by different creative industries. Steampunk: Retro Future Exhibition, as a contemporary interpretation to this, raises awareness to a 21st century whose future is in danger due to consumption mania. ‘Steampunk’ expresses a longing for the fantasy world of the society. Toys, figurines from waste materials and costumes from rags are a reflection of otherness that has neither past nor future.”