If You’d Like to See This Flag in Colors, Burn It (In memory of Marinus Boezem), 2017 by Ahmet Ögüt
Ahmet Öğüt is an internationally-renowned sociocultural initiator and conceptual artist. He consistently seeks out collaborators from outside of the art world, finding unique ways to grapple with complex social issues ranging from migration to civil unrest with a sense of humor. Öğüt’s flag is inspired by Dutch visual artist Marinus Boezem’s postcard-sized photograph entitled “If you’d like to see this photo in colors, burn it” (1967-1969).
Ahmet Öğüt’s If You’d Like to See This Flag in Colors, Burn It (In memory of Marinus Boezem) is on view May 16th – June 6th, 2018 at:
– Creative Time Headquarters, 59 East 4th Street, NY, NY
– 21C Museum Hotel Durham, 111 Corcoran St, Durham, NC
– The Commons, in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1340 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS
– Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY
– John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown University, 357 Benefit Street, Providence, RI
– KMAC Museum, 715 W Main St, Louisville, KY
– MASS MoCA, 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
– Mid-America Arts Alliance, 2018 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO
– Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
– RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street, Providence, RI
– SPACE, 536 Congress Street, Portland, ME
– Texas State Galleries, 233 West Sessom Drive, San Marcos, TX
– The Union for Contemporary Art, 2423 N 24th Street, Omaha, NE
– University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 3821 USF Holly Drive, Tampa, FL
– Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ
About Ahmet Ögüt
Ahmet Öğüt was born in Diyarbakir, Turkey in 1981. He is an internationally-renowned sociocultural initiator and conceptual artist. For his work, Öğüt consistently seeks out collaborators from outside of the art world, finding unique ways to grapple with complex social issues ranging from migration to civil unrest with a sense of humor. Öğüt shaped the installation of the NSK State Pavilion, a satellite project taking place during the 57th Venice Biennale.
Creative Time has previously worked with Ahmet Öğüt on Creative Time Reports and the Creative Time Summit.
Photographs by Guillaume Ziccarelli and Nicholas Prakas