"Curating Contemporary Art" Seminar Program
Seminar: Creating and “Reading” Movement in Sculpture
Speaker: Prof. Meriç Hızal
Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
We are subconscious regulators as part of the universe. When it comes to art, giving life to form, expressing movement, becomes an intellectual game. This game is based on the viewer's preconceptions; it may not conform to reality. As M. Duchamp said, "Art is not retinal. It must be put at the service of the mind." Therefore, what the artist does is not actually show, but suggest. That is, to convince. For this, the artist and the art consumer, as those who read the artwork, need examples in art, knowledge, observation, and insight-intuition. As S. Dali said, "Seeing is thinking," and a kind of perception and perceptual organization is involved. To construct the connection between form and meaning, or to interpret a work of art, one utilizes techniques such as gestalt-form psychology, proportions, the relationship between part and whole, form and space, body physiology, optical illusions, the laws of perspective, entazisis, and, of course, permitted distortions (licensed poetics). Today, we will attempt to analyze and decompose the types and expressive tricks of movement in art, specifically in sculpture, through specific works. Whether the work is figurative or non-figurative is irrelevant. However, we will examine the subject through the lens of figures, using typical examples and a simultaneous perspective. In this formulaless field where each artist finds their own trick, we will embark on a methodological visual journey from the illusion of movement to real movement, from prehistory to the present day, from Marey's chronophotography to Futurism, from Rodin to Theo Jansen.
About Meriç Hızal
The artist was born in 1943 in Istanbul. She took Painting and Art History lessons from Hikmet Kayhan at Ankara Girls' High School. Drawing lessons from Eşref Üren in Ankara between 1971- 1972. Between 1973-1979, she worked as a professor at the Sculpture Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. Even though she chose Şadi Çalık workshop –due to the Rotation System decision they took later-she studied alternately at Hüseyin Gezer Workshop and graduated. In 1977, at the Austria-Salzburg Internationale Sommeracademie Für Bildende Kunst, she studied sculpture with the Italian sculptor Prof. Francesco Somaini. In 1982 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur Des Beaux-Arts in Paris she studied morphology with Prof. François Debord and she studied independent sculpture with Etienne Martin. In 1992, in Italy-Como Corso Superiore Di Disegno, she worked pattern with Marcus Lupertz, Gerar Titus Carmel and Giuliano Collina. By working in the administrative staff along with the faculty member she retired from the Department of Sculpture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2006, and from the Visual Arts Department of FMV Işık University, where she had been working between 2007-2022. She held two solo exhibitions abroad, in France-Paris-Maison Mansard and Greece-Thessaloniki-Teloglion galleries. Urart, CAM Mine Art, Ak Art and İşbank Kibele Art Gallery, including Retrospective, she opened 16 personal exhibitions in Turkey. 46th State Painting-Sculpture, Eczacıbaşı 50th Anniversary Monumental Art Competition, Sedat Simavi Visual Arts, Contemporary Art Works Placement in Open Spaces Contemporary Sculpture Competition, Ankara Art Institution Sculpture Branch Artist of the Year, Art Magazine Respect for Labor, UPSD of the Year There were evaluations such as the Artist Honor Award. she has works in Poland Lotz, Istanbul Modern, BAKSI, Istanbul and Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museums, BOZLU, Benetton Imago Mundi, Trakya University İlhan Koman, IMOGA and Eskişehir Anadolu, Kocaeli, Erzurum, Hacettepe Universities Museums and private collections. In public areas; She has works such as “Peace to All” Statue on top of Beşiktaş-Yıldız-Abbasağa Park, Antalya-Muratpaşa Municipality Palmiye Park “Al Writing Monument”, “Time in Kadıköy” in İstanbul.
* This seminar is organized in collaboration between Akbank Sanat and Open Dialogue Istanbul
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 850 TL for adults, 650 TL for students (VAT included).
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.