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Italian artist Alessandra Ferrini won the MAXXI Bulgari Prize for her video installation titled "Gadhafi in Rome: Notes for a Film". The work was awarded at the third edition of the MAXXI Bulgari Prize, in Rome, on Oct. 25. It focuses on the late leader s first official visit to Italy in 2009.
Participating galleries reported buoyant sales, with an overall sales rate of 77 per cent. Many works with listed prices from $15,000 – $65,000 sold in the first hours of the fair.
“WHAT IS RARE is almost not there,” writes the poet Ahmet Güntan, whom the late Fulya Erdemci often turned to for friendship and inspiration. Fulya was indeed a rare thing herself: a radical and tender vessel for art, poetry, politics, beauty, solidarity, and justice who could trace her legacy back to the budding contemporary art scene of Istanbul in the 1990s. She was a pillar in the infrastructures she built for progressive arts and civic politics in Turkey, and she enriched the art world and the world itself with her radiant vision of the future and her devotion to working toward that vision.