Haluk Akakce was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1970. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (U.S.A.), where he began his career painting and experimenting with digital animation. He has lived and worked in New York since 1997.
In his first video, The Measure of All Things of 2000, Akakce combined live film recordings and digital animation to create a series of surreal tecnological landscapes that illustrate his version of Genesis, conceived as a type of birth of a new relationship between man and a tecnological nature.
Later, continuing his concern with the human relationship with technology, Akakce realized video installations. Blood Pressure of 2001 presents a visionary fusion between painting, video and architecture. The artist has created a flowing space where past and present are put into question.
The works of Akakce suggest a paradoxical vision of the future, a future that has already passed.
The artist presented his works at the VI Biennial in Istabul in 1999, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland, and at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York.
This exhibition at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts will include A Delicate Balance, 2001, an installation that combines painting and animated projections created expressly for the space; The Measure of All Things, 2000, and Blood Pressure, 2001.

Patrick Tuttofuoco, one of the more interesting young emerging artists, lives in Milan, where he was born in 1974.
Since his first single person exhibition at the Galleria Guenzani in Milan in 2000, the artist has received increasing attention from international critics, curtors and collectors.
In 2000 his works were published in Espresso, Arte Oggi in Italia, published by Electa, Fatica Sprecata, Art Book Edizioni, L'Art dans le monde 2000, Paris, Musee de Beaux-Artes.
The artist has participated in many international group exhibitions including the I Quadriennial of Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuelle Kunst in Ghent, Le Rier d'Echo at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, Hops! At the Festival of Visual and Performing Arts, Link, in Bologna.
In this exhibition at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Patrick Tuttofuoco will present his video Boing, 2001, an imaginary voyage through the virtual space of the computer. The work was realized in collaboration with a group of artist friends who served as launching catalists projected as virtual vehicles through the expressways of the Net.
Exhibitions of his work have been planned for 2002 in London, Milan and Paris.