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Emre CANTurkey

The Breakfast in the Middle East 「Excellence Prize」

As a tool to shape ceramic I use a Three-Dimensional printer. Nature surrounding us carries both a material and intuitive feeling and an internal structure that affects us. The feelings and the impacts that these structures have on us are the most important factors affecting me. While nature is so organic, digital media is so artificial. My goal is to transform the artificial forms from a machine into an organic structure with different touches, to capture the opposition between artificial and organic, and to deform the ceramic structures produced by a machine to reveal new forms. While designing to make use of the internal spaces of a structure, I combine the forms that I created in digital environment with traditional shaping methods. There is a skeleton, a system that constitutes each item and keeps that item alive. That is what I am curious about and where I focus what I want to tell within my work. The smoothness and perfection that the structure’s surface gives, the desire to break it in order to reveal the inner workings lead me to different kinds of adventures. I am also getting new forms in the framework of the theme that I have specified.

Year of Creation: 2019

Materials: Limoges White Porcelain, Cobalt Oxide

Dimensions: 30*24*38cm

  • EDUCATION

    2019         Phd，Anadolu University Fine Arts Institue Ceramic Department，Ceramic

    2012         Master，Afyon Kocatepe University Fine Arts Institue Ceramic Department，Ceramic

  • EXPERIENCE

    2016         Workshop at Tethon 3D Studio with Stereolithograph in Omaha / USA

    2015         3D Printing Ceramics Workshop at Unfold Design Studio in Antwerp / Belgium

  • EXHIBITIONS

    2018         Martinson Award International Ceramic Competition Exhibition，Daugavpils/Latvia

    2018         IV. International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM 2018 Exhibition，Lubjiana/Slovenia

    2017         Memory Box Exhibition of Ceramic Competition ，Daugavpils/Latvia

    2015         ISCAA Interntional Ceramic Exhibition ，Beijing/China

    2013         XI. Biennal International De Ceramica Manises Ceramic Competition Exhibition，Valencia/Spain

  • AWARDS

    2019         Be Child，Be Child，Erzurum Painting and Sculpture Art Museum/Turkey

    2018         Seljuk，Seljuk，?zmir/Turkey

    2018         Blue Dreams in the Middle East，Blue Dreams in the Middle East，Westerville /USA

    2017         Bozunma，Bozunma，Sakarya /Turkey

  • WORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

    2019         Erzurum Painting and Sculpture Art Museum Permanent Collection，Erzurum/Turkey

    2018         Igor Stemberger Personal Collection，Lubjiana/Slovenia

    2017         Güray Museum Contemporary Turkish Ceramics Collection，Cappadocia/Turkey

    2015         Tsinghua University Permanent Collection，Beijing/China

    2013         Manises Museu de Ceramica Permanent Collection，Daugavpils/Latvia

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