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Ephesos
ARCHITECTURE, MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE
October 11, 2008 till January 12, 2009
Ephesos Museum, Neue Burg
A-1010 Vienna, Entrance Heldenplatz
Remembering the History of a Celebrated Metropolis – Ephesus
An exhibition entitled “Ephesus: Architecture, Monuments & Sculptures” opened on October 11, 2008 at the Ephesus Museum in the Neue Burg, the former Imperial Palace, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the museum. Twenty-five large-scale picture-installations by Ahmet Ertug show the ancient metropolis, her grand monuments and sculptures, together with the artworks in the Ephesus Collection. The formal opening ceremony was attended by Dr. Johannes Hahn, the Austrian Minister for Science and Research, Dr. Claudia Schmidt, the Austrian Minister for Education, Art and Culture, and Ertugrul Günay, Minister for Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, who all praised the decades of successful Austro-Turkish collaboration to further preservation and research of the ancient city of Ephesus.
For the artworks, the opening of the Ephesus Museum in the Neue Burg in 1978 marked the end of 72 years of storage in the depot of the Collection of Antiquities of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Today, the Ephesus Museum showcases a representative selection of the Roman sculptures that once decorated the city’s extensive public baths or theatre. A number of architectural fragments document the elaborately embellished facades of public buildings in classical antiquity, and a large architectural model visualizes the topography of the ancient metropolis. Another high-point of the collection is the Parthian Monument, its size and importance making it unique among relief-cycles from the time of the Ancient Roman Empire.
Ertug & Kocabiyik Fine Art Books have published a magnificent large-scale art book that was presented to the public for the first time at the exhibition’s formal opening ceremony. The exhibition at the Ephesus Museum in the Neue Burg will run until January 12, 2009; every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. we offer a series of lectures, talks and guided tours by scholars from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Austrian Archaeological Institute.
THE ART BOOK
The book has 240 pages (47,8 x 35 cm, in english), 34 panorama fotos and 109 color plates. It was bound by hand and is produced with a protective cover and box.
For orders from Europa and Asia, please contact ahmetertug@gmail.com.
Downloads:
Introduction (PDF ca. 96 kB)
Press Release (PDF ca. 40 kB)
Credits (PDF ca. 100 kB)