Sabancı Museum extends Cobra movement exhibit
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Sakıp Sabancı Museum is hosting an exhibit titled “Cobra – 1,000 Days of Free Art,” including a selection of the most prominent works from the Cobra movement, which changed the European art environment in the second half of the 20th century. Named for the initials of the members’ home cities of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, this avant-garde movement was active from 1948 to 1951. The current show features over 60 works by Cobra artists. Visitors to the exhibition will also enjoy a voyage through the years 1930-1960 in which social and historical developments in Europe and in Turkey are related in parallel. The exhibition opened on June 29 and will continue until September. Entrance is free on Wednesdays.