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Great Turnout at Opening of Alberto Modiano´s ´100 Jewish Faces´ Exhibition at Schneidertempel

Alberto Modiano´s long-term exhibition ´100 Jewish Faces´ was opened on Thursday, May 11th at the Schneidertempel Culture and Arts Center with a large number of participants.
Nisya İŞMAN ALLOVİ
May 22, 2023
Great Turnout at Opening of Alberto Modiano´s ´100 Jewish Faces´ Exhibition at Schneidertempel
Photography artist Alberto Modiano at the opening of his ´100 Jewish Faces´ exhibition

Translation by Janet MITRANI

Following Izel Rozental's opening speech of the exhibition, on behalf of the institution, where the portraits of 134 artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers are included, the photography artist Alberto Modiano taking the stand, talked about the importance of the exhibition.

Modiano, comparing every one of the artists to a flower, stated that the art gallery resembled a colorful garden and thanked everyone and all the institutions that had contributed to this project. Then Modiano's 40th-anniversary cake came and was cut by his wife Rose. A beautiful photo was taken together with all the participating artists in this amazing atmosphere.

The photographs in this exhibition are black and white. Alberto Modiano who has been interested in photography for 40 years, believes that black and white photographs better accommodate emotions with their many tonalities that extend from analog photography times to our day.

I have been following my colleague Alberto's project for a long time. Before he started working with us he had studied cinema and participated in the Turkish Cultural Studies certificate program. He is someone who believes that issue of oral history is very important for a community and that these kinds of projects are really important for the future as the generations are being lost. Alberto who has also recorded a video during this project, will soon be uploading his film to YouTube.

An album of the exhibition, which will be open until June 4th, is also available.

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