Etiket arts

News, Etc. “His dream was to bring his ship to the Mediterranean…But he thought that it would be difficult to find eight people for the journey that would take a whole year,” said Turkish artist Behcet Sefa in an interview talking about the wish of the world famous Turkish sculptor Ilhan Koman to set “M/S Hulda” on sail. It was the vessel that Koman made his home and workshop for years in Stockholm. Now that dream has become true. “M/S Hulda” is en route to the Mediterranean visiting European ports as a sailing exhibition and her journey will end up in Istanbul in September of 2010, the year when the city will be the Cultural Capital of Europe. Those who have visited Istanbul Bilgi University’s Santralistanbul campus could not have missed the works of Ilhan Koman that have been exhibited at the museum. Actually there is a replica of his famous work ‘To Infinity’ between the museum and the parking lot. His other famous sculpture called “Mediterranean” that depicts a woman consisting of 112 metal strips probably expressing the waves and breezes of that sea which has been the cradle of civilizations. Despite its 4 tons, the sculpture gives a very light impression to the beholding eye. Who is Ilhan Koman orn in 1921 in Edirne-Turkey, Ilhan Koman studied at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts. After his graduation in 1946 he went to Paris where he worked in l’Académie Julian and l’Ecole du Louvre (1947-1950) and opened his first solo exhibition. He produced his first iron works in Istanbul between 1951 and 1958 at the Academy’s sculpture department and workshop of which he was the co-founding professor. In 1958 he was invited to the Brussels World Fair to represent Turkey. In 1959 he moved to Stockholm where he took […]