Chris Doyle Receives Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Prize for Waste_Generation

Chris Doyle, an artist from Brooklyn, has been honored with the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Prize. This award enables the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection to acquire one artwork featured at the Moving Image Istanbul art fair. Doyle's work, titled Waste_Generation, was created in 2011 and draws inspiration from Thomas Cole’s series The Course of Empire, painted between 1833 and 1836. This series depicts a city’s evolution from peaceful countryside to eventual ruin. Waste_Generation represents the second part of Doyle's larger project that seeks to modernize Cole’s themes for today’s audience. The artwork will be on display at the fair until September 28, 2014, with the prize announcement made on September 25, 2014.