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Metin YURDANUR

Yurdanur was born in 1951 in Sivrihisar town of Eskişehir Province in Turkey. He spent his childhood until high school in his hometown, in a region, where remains of the Phrygian civilization were enriched by the art of Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman. He was impressed by antique works of art, especially by the three-millennium old Phrygian reliefs, that inspired him for plastic arts.

After finishing the high school, he enrolled as a boarding student in the Department of Arts at Gazi Institute of Education (Turkish: Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü) in Ankara, what is today the Faculty of Vocational Education at Gazi University. He was educated in arts and graduated in 1972 as a high school teacher for arts.

He was soon appointed in Isparta, where he made in 1973 a monument of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic. He then served as drawing teacher at a high school in Mihalıççık town in Eskişehir Province. In 1978, he was appointed as teacher for sculpture in his alma mater.

During his time in Ankara, he created upon request of the city administration in 1979 mockups, which later were realized in Ankara as sculptures like "Eller" (The Hands) in Abdi İpekçi Park,"Nasreddin Hoca Riding the Hittite Lion Backwards" at Railroad Station Square, "Dayanışma" (Solidarity) in Batıkent and "Balerinler" (The Ballet Dancers) in Kavaklıdere.

Metin YURDANUR

Sculptor career

In 1981, he left his teacher's profession and opened his own workshop 1985 in OSTIM Industrial Zone, Ankara. His first work was the sculpture of "Nasreddin Hoca shows the Center of the World" in his hometown.

Metin Yurdanur became an expert in casting statues using conventional techniques selecting his subjects from recent history.[2] Many monuments, statues and reliefs of Yurdanur are found throughout Turkey, mostly in Ankara. He has also works in several countries around the world like Germany, Hungary, Libya, Japan, Mongolia and Cuba.

In 2005, he opened his first individual open-air monument and statue exhibition in Ankara called I am Anatolia, I am the Republic, I am the People. At the exhibition, the polyester mockups of his larger-than-life statues and busts of people from Turkey's history such as Atatürk, İsmet İnönü, Abidin Dino, Karacaoğlan, Yaşar Kemal, Şerife Bacı, Muzaffer Sarısözen and other.

Metin Yurdakul was awarded the title State Artist of Turkey in 1998.

Metin YURDANUR Works

in Turkey

Miras (The Heritage), Ankara (1979)

Eller (The Hands), Abdi İpekçi Park, Ankara (1979)

Dayanışma (Solidarity), Ankara (1980)

Nasreddin Hoca, Sivrihisar (1985)

Çay ve Horon (Tea and Horon), Rize (1987)

Kaynak (The Water Spring), Ankara (1989)

Çocukların Kardeşliği (Fraternaty of Children), Ankara (1990)

İnsan Hakları (Human Rights), Ankara (1990)[3][5]

Aşık Paşa, Kırşehir (1990)

Madenci (The Miner), Olgunlar Street, Ankara (1991)

Dans (Dance), Ankara (1991)

Balerinler (The Ballet Dancers), Kavaklıdere, Ankara (1992)

Monument of Çanakkale, Çanakkale (1992)

Metin YURDANUR At (Equine), Antalya (1992)

Karacaoğlan, Mersin (1992)

Aşık Veysel, Şarkışla (1993)

Muzaffer Sarısözen Monument, Ankara (1993)[2]

Monument of July 2nd, Saraçlar Village, Sivas (1993)

Monument of Finance Ministry, Ankara (1994)

Abidin Dino, Istanbul (1994)

Monument of Osmangazi Konuralp, Akçakoca (1993)

Yaşar Kemal, Istanbul (1994)

Üzüm Çiğneyen Kız (The Grape Crushing Girl), Kahta (1994)

Seyit Hüseyin, Tunceli (1994)

Melih Cevdet Anday, İstanbul (1994)

Alaeddin Keykubad, Alanya (1995)

Monument of Constitutional Court, Ankara (1995)

İsmet and Mevhibe İnönü, Garden of Pembe Köşk, Ankara (1995)

Metin YURDANUR İnsan Hakları /Human Rights), Tunceli (1996)

Kurtuluşa Doğru (Towards Independence), İnebolu (1997)

Monument of GATA, Ankara (1997)

Nene Hatun, Erzurum (1998)

Monument of 75th Anniversary of the Republic, Rize (1998)

Cybele series (1998)

Monument of December 27th, Ankara (2000)

Relief of Anatolia, the Cradle of Civilizations and Law, Ankara Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey, Ankara (2000)

Monument of Duatepe, Polatlı, Ankara province (2000)

Monument of TESK, Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen), Ankara (2001)

Metin YURDANUR Dadaloğlu, Kırşehir (2002)

Monument of Youth, Trabzon (2003)

Monument of Black Sea Technical University, Trabzon (2004)

José Martí, Ankara (2006)

Miners series, (2008)

Relief of Capital Ankara and Our Turkey, Ministry of Culture, Ankara (2009)

Monument of Republic, Gençlik Parkı, Ankara (2009)

Abroad

Al Gardabia, Sirte, Libya (1989)

Sun's Course, Bonn, Germany (1989)

Suleiman the Magnificent (1994) and Nikola Šubid Zrinski (1997), Hungarian-Turkish Friendship Park, Szigetvár, Hungary

Gül Baba, Budapest, Hungary (1996)

Equestrian Atatürk, Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan (1996) - moved in 2010 to Kushimoto, Wakayama

Atatürk, Havana, Cuba (2008)

M.Kemal CİNSÜLLÜOĞLU

Sculptor career

• He was born in Osmaniye in 1965.He was the fifth son of a teacher father. He completed his primary and high school life in Adana. He attended fine art in Malatya University. He organized his first exhibition in 1995 at Inonu University.

• After graduating university. He joined an exhibition in Gaziantep in 1997.

• His works had been liked so much and he has been told a lot. He made his sculptures in very different techniques. He used digital-sculptures-oily paintings acrylic-relief.

• He is also assistant of Tarsus artist institute. He joined some symposiums and an international organization.

• Mostly he has been dealed with wood-relief lately.

M.Kemal CİNSÜLLÜOĞLU

M.Kemal CİNSÜLLÜOĞLU

M.Kemal CİNSÜLLÜOĞLU

Mehmet AKSOY

Mehmet Aksoy (born 1939) is a Turkish sculptor, called the "Anatolian Michelangelo". His sculptures often contain sensual figurative elements, but he is strongly rooted in a modernist sensibility with strong conceptual and abstract elements in his work. He works primarily in stone but also incorporates other material, fusing metal or differing stones in a single sculpture. He presently resides and works in a studio of his own dramatic design on the outskirts of Istanbul.

He was born 1939 in Hatay Province, Turkey,[1] a town that is today within Syrian territories. After completing his primary education in Yayladağı in Hatay Province, Tarsus, Mersin and Antalya, he enrolled 1960 in Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts (today Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts) to study painting. Later, Aksoy switched over to sculpture section, where he was educated by Prof. Şadi Çalık between 1961-1967. Following his military service, he served at the same academy as an assistant in 1969-1970. He went in 1970 to London after having received a state-granted scholarship for further studies. Aksoy moved to Germany to study at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, from where he obtained a master's degree in 1977. He returned in 1978 to Turkey and served until 1980 as an instructor at his alma mater.

Statue of Humanity

Statue of Humanity (2009) under construction in Kars

Statue of Humanity (Turkish: İnsanlık Anıtı) was a statue in Kars, Turkey created by Mehmet Aksoy. The monument, which depicted two human figures with hands reaching out to each other, stood 30 m (98 ft) high on Kazıktepe Hill across from the ancient Castle of Kars outside of the city and would have been visible from neighboring Armenia when completed. It was commissioned by Naif Alibeyoğlu, the former mayor of Kars, as a gesture of reconciliation in Armenia–Turkey relations following a 2009 accord to establish formal diplomatic recognition between the two.

Mehmet AKSOY

Memorial to the Deserter

Memorial to the Unknown Deserter (1989) in Potsdam

Memorial to the Deserter (Turkish: İnsanlık Anıtı) is a statue in Unity Square, Potsdam, Germany created by Mehmet Aksoy. [citation needed] The figure in this memorial, which honors those who refuse to fight in unjust wars, is carved in negative relief, a technique that Aksoy employed in later work.

Mehmet AKSOY Solo Exhibition

1970 Gallery of the World Of Charity Foundation 1980 İstanbul National Fine Arts Academy 1982 Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin (K) 1984 Übersee Museum Bremen (K) 1987 Galery am Chamissoplatz Berlin 1989 Urart Gallery , Ankara 1990 Urart Gallery, İstanbul 1992 Halkbank Gallery, Ankara 1992 İstanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture 1993 Vakko Gallery, İstanbul 1993 Zon Gallery, Ankara

Mehmet AKSOY Prizes

1966 National Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 2. Prize (No first prize was granted) 1970 National Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1. Prize 1979 National Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1. Prize 1982-83 Luthar Platz Sculptural Competition, 2. Prize 1985 Bundengartenschen Sculptural Competition, 2.Prize 1990 Ankara Arts Association "Artist of the Year" prize in the field of visual arts. 1990 Grand Prize, Asian European Biennale 1990 Sedat Simavi Foundation Prize in the field of visual arts.

Mehmet AKSOY

Mehmet AKSOY

İlhan KOMAN

Ilhan Koman was born in Edirne, Turkey, in 1921. After finishing the Istanbul Mimar Sinan Academy of Fine Arts he went to Paris on a state scholarship for further studies at the 'Academie Julian'. In 1951 he returned to Turkey and taught at the Istanbul Academy until moving to Sweden in 1958. Koman renovated there an ancient sailing boat, M/S Hulda, where he lived and worked on in Drottningholm. He taught at Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts (Konstfackskolan) until the end of his life, in 1986. Ilhan Koman exhibited his works in many countries, where he is also represented in several museums. In 1965 Koman started his work on inventing diverging geometrical forms. Many of these have kinetic properties, such as flexible 3-D Moebius bands and polyhedra. He developed these forms as prototypes in various materials to be realised in large-scale projects. Much of his works remain in Sweden as full-scale monuments. His major works in his homeland Turkey are large metal outdoor sculptures in Istanbul ('Akdeniz'/'The Mediterranean' in 4. Levent, 'To Infinity…' in santralistanbul, an untitled work in Taksim, Portal a kinetic monumental piece that used to be in Stockholm Central Station since 1989 and which was brought to Bogazici University in 2008 thanks to the financial support of the Garanti Bank and the 'Pi' series, to be implemented on several campuses of Bogazici University at the end of the year 2008), a wall frieze at Atatürk's Mausoleum, and an untitled bronze sculpture in the Seymenler Park in Ankara. Ilhan Koman narrates his style and research in the article ‘ON MY APPROACH TO MAKING NONFIGURATIVE STATIC AND KINETIC SCULPTURE’ with Françoise Ribeyrolles in Leonardo, 1979, Pergamon Press, Vol.12, pp. 1-4.

İlhan KOMAN Places of Residence

1921-40 Edirne, Turkey

1940-47 Istanbul, Turkey

1947-51 Paris, France

1951-57 Istanbul, Turkey

1957-58 Brussels, Belgium

1958-65 Stockholm, Sweden

1965-86 Drottningholm (M/S Hulda sailing boat), Sweden

Education and Employment

Matriculation examination

Diploma from the Academy of Art, Istanbul

Student at the Académie Julian, Paris

Professor at the Academy of Art, Istanbul

Started collaborating with architect Ralph Erskine, Drottningholm

Art professor at Konstfackskolan, Stockholm

İlhan KOMAN One-Person Exhibitions Galerie 8, Paris Galerie Maeght, Paris The City Gallery, Istanbul The American Cultural Center, Istanbul SDS-hallen, Malmö Galerie Schindler, Berne Galerie Neumarkt, Zürich Palais International des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna Berlin Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Galerie Katakombe, Basle Galerie Burén, Stockholm ‘Salon de la Jeune Sculpture’, Musée Rodin, Paris Posthumous One-Person Exhibitions Galeri Nev, Istanbul Galeri Nev, Ankara ‘Retrospective: En Upptäcktsresa i Formvärlden’ (‘An Exploration into the World of Shapes’), Vita Havet, Konstfack, Stockholm Galeri Nev, Istanbul ‘Walking Dervish’, Turkey Pavilion, EXPO2000 World Fair, Hanover ‘Ilhan Koman: Retrospective’, Yapi Kredi and French Cultural Centres, Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul Permanent outdoor exhibition of two artworks in the park of the Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul Galeri Nev, Istanbul Konak Municipality Guzelyali Cultural & Art Centre, Izmir ‘Ilhan Koman, To Infinity’, Sabanci University, Istanbul

İlhan KOMAN Public Works

'Relief, l00 m2 on the eastern wing of the Atatürk Mausoleum, Ankara

Sculpture, 30-m high, for the Turkey Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair

Relief in aluminium, LIC, Stockholm

Sculpture in Sparbanken, Vargön, Uddevalla

Sculpture in Vasa Gymnasium, Stockholm

‘Blomman’ (‘The Flower’), Brittgården, Tibro

Sculpture in front of Divan Hotel, Istanbul

Wooden relief at Pågens, Malmö

Sculpture in front of Sparbanken's Conference Centre, Skepparholmen, Stockholm

‘Rullting’, sculptural ornamentation at the town square of Bosvedjan, Sundsvall (together with sculptors H. Gustafsson and H. Hild)

İlhan KOMAN ‘From Leonardo to...’, sculpture in front of the Royal Academy of Technology (KTH) at Karlavägen, Stockholm (together with architect Çetin Kanra)

‘Hyperform’, sculpture in the entrance-hall of Atlas Copco, Stockholm

‘Ryssjor’, Fisksätra, Stockholm (together with sculptor H. Gustafsson)

‘Akdeniz (‘The Mediterranean’), Yapi Kredi Insurance (previously Halk), Istanbul

‘Snäckan’ (‘The Shell’), Sculpture in the entrance-hall of Förbundshuset, Stockholm

‘The Swedish National Coat of Arms’, Plenary Hall of the House of Parliament, Stockholm

İlhan KOMAN Articles L'Art d'Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1950 Prisme des Arts, Paris, 1950 Arkitekt, Istanbul, 1955 Arkitekt, Istanbul, 1956 Prisme des Arts, Paris, 1956 Arkitekt, Istanbul, 1957 Bulletin, Museum of Modern Art, New York Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1958 Art News, New York, 1959 Arkitekt, Istanbul, 1960 (article by Hadi Bara) Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1961 (article by Pierre Guéguen) Konstrevy, Stockholm, 1962 (article by Kristian Romare) Neue Berner Nachrichten, Berne, 1962 (article by Jean-Christoph Ammann) Arts International, New York, 1962 Paletten, Gothenburg, 1962 Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1962 Arkitekt, Istanbul, 1962 (article by Hadi Bara) Neue Züricher Zeitung, Zürich, 1962 Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1962 (article by Denis Chevalier)

İlhan KOMAN Lausanne Magazine, Lausanne, 1962 (article by Jean-Claude Widmer) Paletten, Gothenburg, 1979 (article by Beate Sydhoff) Leonardo, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979 (article by Françoise Ribeyrolles) Milliyet Sanat, Istanbul, 198l (articles by Abidin Dino, Günes Karabuda, and Yasar Kemal) Konkret Kalejdoskop, 1981 Sanat Olayi, Istanbul, 198l (article by Ali Neyzi) Milliyet Sanat, Istanbul, 1982 (article by Zeynep Oral) Berlingske, Copenhagen, 1986 (article by Poul Flöe Svenningsen) Politiken, Copenhagen, 1986 (article by Pierre Lübecker) Milliyet Sanat, Istanbul, 1987 (articles by Abidin Dino, Ferit Edgü, Günes Karabuda, and Kaya Özsezgin) Arredamento Dekorasyon, No. 5, Istanbul, May 1993 (article by Hüseyin B. Alptekin and Özgür Uçkan) Vizyon Dekorasyon, No. 18, Istanbul, January 1996 (article by Haldun Dostoglu and Abdurrahman Hancö) Albüm, No. 5, Istanbul, June 1998 (article by Emine Çaykara) Atlas,Istanbul, January 2000 (first page cover)

Haluk TEZONAR

A Turkish sculptor.

Mostly he made Ataturk sculptures. He was born in Corlu in 1942.

During his early education life he showed interest in music and he had education in music art academy department of conservatory.

Meanwhile he joined to the department of ceramic and he also worked with a university teacher named HAKKI KARAYIGIT.

After graduating from university he became an assistant in 1965.

After that time he worked at Marmara University faculty of fine-arts as a assistant and got master degree.

He became professor of university and headmaster of faculty of fine arts.

He died in 1995.

Haluk TEZONAR Works

Independence war monument:

It is in Dumlupınar martyrdom. It symbolize Turkish people a baby on a young soldiers hug, and near him a young woman and an old man all symbolize the struggle with enemy to save the nation.

The martyr father and his sons monument:

this monument is also replaced in Dumlupınar martyrdom made by Haluk Tezonar. It symbolizes a sergeant and corporal son.

Haluk TEZONAR Ataturk monument-1971

This sculpture is made in Kayseri it symbolize Ataturk with a solider uniform on a horse. It was made of bronze.

Sakarya sehitleri monument

It was made in 1972 by Haluk Tezonar. The entrance began with vertical steps that these steps reflect after the hard days pass away you can see the happiness days you cant see the comfortable life before you suffer.

At the end of the step you can see all the people together struggle with their freedom. Behind this sculptures there also some reliefs that tells happenings during the indepence war.

Haluk TEZONAR Algerian Hassan Pasha monument it is located in front of CESME CASTLE. He is with his domestic lion.

Fuzuli sculpture:

It has been over nearby BEBEK coast that made by Haluk Tezonar.

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