AGAH U?UR

Alternative Energies

ÖZGE ERSOY

In a 2013 TEDx talk, Agah U?ur asked: “Why are we obsessed with making the ‘right’ decisions all the time?” As the CEO of Borusan Holding, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Turkey, U?ur observes that there is pervasive belief in business that the “right” choices lead to success—even when it is impossible to find causality, as people function in a complex, chaotic environment with many variables. For him, it is mo When we meet over coffee at U?ur’s home, I start by asking him how this way of thinking about business has informed his art collection and what “daring” could mean in Turkey. A 2015 exhibition at Istanbul’s nonprofit institution Salt identified his praxis as one of three private collections that can be considered “off-the-grid” in Turkey, where…

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ArtAsiaPacific (Digital) - 1 Issue, Mar/Apr 2017

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