DEPO Gallery will host an exhibition ”Poetry of Stones, ANİ: An Architectural Treasure on Cultural Crossroads” from Tuesday 13 March through Sunday 29 April. For more information, check out the official page.
From the organizer:
This is a long story made short. We want to tell you about the great city of Ani, a remote place from a remote time far from the worlds high-speed urban centers of today. But once upon a time a marvel of a city, located at one of the branches of the Silk Route. Ani flourished in the 10th and 11th century A.D., but it’s history reaches much farther back.
As all important trading cities through history, Ani’s cultural richness stems from a spectacular interbreeding of cultures. The exhibition will highlight that, as well as the extraordinary examples of Armenian architecture which were created in this diverse environment, to become influential far beyond the region. The splendor is threatened but not lost, still today the city of Ani stands majestic with its walls, churches, monasteries and its mosque. Yet they are ruins in an abandoned city in a barren landscape, leaving the visitor impressed by a sense of history’s great tides. Under the city there is a no less impressive underworld – a city under the city carved out in the rocks.
We want to tell you about how experts from Turkey and Armenia have worked together with organizations and experts from other countries in the ongoing effort to save the architectural heritage in and around Ani. It is a Herculean task with so many splendid monuments located in a highly seismic region.
It is our hope that this exhibition will also encourage further international support to save the treasures in and around Ani for future generations. And it is our hope that eventually people will find their way to Ani to enjoy an extraordinary experience of history, culture and landscape.
The city was included on the World Heritage list in 2016.
Project Collaborators: Anadolu Kültür, Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IHMC RAS).
Photographs: Ara Güler, Martin Manukyan, Murat Germen, Vedat Akçayöz
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For more information, visit the official exhibition page.
Tuesday – Sunday: 11:00 – 19:00
E-mail: depo@depoistanbul.net
Telephone: +90 (212) 292 39 56 – 57
Tütün Deposu Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No.12 – Tophane 34425
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