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Franz Ackermann decided to spend his DAAD scholarship in the city in the 1990s and came up with the Mental Maps compositions inspired by the fascinating colours and urban landscape. This three-decades-old long term ongoing series is considered Ackermann’s backbone for all of his large paintings. These series of works depict the artist’s methodology of creating a colourful gaze on today’s metropoles. Well known director of Palm d’Or winning movies, Nuri Bilge Ceylan identifies as a photographer before a director. In The World of My Father, Nuri Bilge Ceylan turns his formidable gaze to his …