"ABIDIN DINO IS 100 YEARS OLD - 100 PORTRAIT EXHIBITION"

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The exhibition containing the DINO portraits made by 56 cartoonists, painters and sculptors was prepared in Istanbul and Ankara by "Obur Mizah" in 2008 for the remembrance of 95th birthday of Abidin Dino. Our aim now is to prepare another exhibition, after 5 years from then, to remember him as he deserves, during his 100th birthday with additional artists to reach 100 to increase it to 100 portraits. We will be pleased with the participation of all artists to share our feelings for this aspect.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION :

• Theme : PORTRAIT of Pioneer artist Abidin Dino

• Exhibition is open for all artists. All the works done by any kind of technic - cartoon, painting, drawing etc.- are accepted. Each artist can participate the exhibition with one work only.

• The participation will be by e-mail to be sent to the address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it together with the info regarding name, surname, city and country of the artist.

• Works will be at least A4 ( 21x29,7 cm.) size to be scanned at 300 dpi resolution.

• Of the participating works, best 10 of them will be awarded Diplomas by the exhibition jury

Exhibition jury consists of:

Tan Oral (Cartoonist - Taraf newspaper)

Eray Özbek (Director of the Museum of Joy and Cartoon- Cartoonist)

Nezih Danyal (Founder and the president of The Cartoon Foundation- Cartoonist)

Kamil Masaraci (Cartoonist - Cumhuriyet newspaper)

Erdogan Karayel (DQ Humor Magazine- Executive Editor)

Halil I.Yildirim (Cartoonist)

Emre Yilmaz (Obur Mizah Cartoon Magazine- Editor in chief / Cartoonist)

• The exhibition is limited to a total of 100 works.

• The participants are asked to send their works latest Sept 15th. 2013

• The exhibition will be opened in Istanbul on Dec 7th. 2013.

• "Obur Mizah" will be authorised to use the works in books, posters, brochures, also in promotional and media announcements related to "the exhibition" only.

The exhibition prepared in 2008 can be viewed at the link :

http://www.oburmizah.com/oburmizah/abidin.html

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