MARBLE BLOCKS STARTED TO TAKE SHAPES IN NEOPOLIS

SCULPTORS ARE HAPPY TO CREATE ART IN KUŞADASI

The works of the artists began to take shape at the International Kuşadası Neopolis Sculpture Symposium, which was organized for the 4th time this year in cooperation with Kuşadası Municipality, Kuşadası Altın Güvercin Culture Art and Promotion Foundation (KUSAV), Mehmet Nuri Göçen Culture Education and Art Foundation and ARYA A.Ş. In the symposium dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic, sculptors carve marble blocks with the theme of 'peace and freedom'.

International Kuşadası Neopolis Sculpture Symposium continues at full speed in Kuşadası, the culture and art capital of Turkey. The symposium, which took place in the Old Camel Wrestling Arena in Kuşdür, lasted 11 days. The symposium, which will last until October 20 under the curatorship of sculptors Hakan Şengönül and Özlem Şengönül, will include Ahmad Solimani from Iran, Ivan Tsiskadze and Valerien Jikia from Georgia, Alex Sorokin from Belarus, Hakan Şengönül, Songül Coşkun and İmdat Avcı from Turkey, Kirill Grekov from Estonia, Mariia Aprasidi from Russia, Lui Yang from China and two assistant sculptors are participating.

In the symposium dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic, sculptors work at an intense pace despite the hot weather and sun, shaping their works with the theme of 'peace and freedom'. The sculptures created at the end of the symposium, which will last until October 20, will be presented to art lovers at different points in Kuşadası. Clay workshops for children will also be organized in the following days of the symposium, which made a significant contribution to the transformation of Kuşadası into an open-air museum.

“INTEREST IS INCREASING EVERY YEAR”

Sculptor Hakan Şengönül, one of the curators of the symposium, said that the interest in Kuşadası Neopolis Sculpture Symposium is increasing every year. Stating that 228 sculptors from 40 countries applied to the symposium this year, Şengönül said, “Our sculptors, determined by the jury consisting of our municipality and the symposium committee, will create their works in accordance with the theme of peace and freedom with block marbles coming from Marmara Island in Kuşadası for about a month. "I would like to thank our Mayor Ömer Günel for giving us the opportunity to produce art in a very convenient environment here," he said.

  “WOMEN SHAPES LIFE”

Stating that she is proud to take part in the International Kuşadası Neopolis Sculpture Symposium, sculptor Songül Coşkun said: “I believe that women shape life. If a woman can express herself freely in a society, it means there is freedom in that country. "For this reason, I shape my sculpture based on the female form and the pigeons flying in her hair," he said.

“A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR US”

Tunç Şendağ, who attended the symposium as an assistant from Trakya University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, said, “Working here is a unique opportunity for us assistants. Because at the symposium, we have the opportunity to be together with artists from different countries of the world and get to know them. "They also provide us with technical equipment and marble blocks to make sculptures," he said.