Koray AriÅŸ (born in 1944) is a Turkish sculptor. He graduated from
Şadi Çalıks atelier at the
Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his abstract sculptures made from metal, wood, leather, and other materials
which have earned him a special place in Turkish sculpture.
Biography
AriÅŸ was born in 1944 in
Adana
Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...
, Turkey. He graduated from the atelier of
Şadi Çalık at the
Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts sculpture department. Between 1969 and 1971 he worked in the sculpture atelier of
Emilio Greco of the
Rome University of Fine Arts. He founded his own atelier in Rome and then later in Istanbul and has participated in many personal and collaborative exhibitions.
His first solo exhibition was in Rome a year after when he opened his studio there in 1971. In the following years his works were displayed in many cities in Europe including Florence, Budapest and Belgrade. He returned to Turkey in 1975, where he started teaching at the
Fine Arts Academy. After two years, he quit and left the academy, which is when he opened his Istanbul studio. For more than 25 years his works have been exhibited regularly in Istanbul and Ankara. In 2001, he designed masks for the
Fire of Anatolia dance group/show, which has traveled with the show around the world since then.
The exhibition "Memory and Scale: 15 Artists of Modern Turkish Sculpture" at
Istanbul Modern included works by AriÅŸ.
Personal exhibitions
*1972 Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome
*1973 Galleria L'indiano, Florence
*1976 DGSA Osman Hamdi Salonu, Istanbul
*1980 Galeri Bİ-Ze, Istanbul
*1985 Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
*1986 Galeri Nev, Ankara
*1988 Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
*1991 Galeri Nev, Ankara, Istanbul
*1994 Galeri Nev, Istanbul
*1998 Akbank Aksanat Galerisi, Istanbul
References
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1944 births
Living people
People from Adana
Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul alumni
Rome University of Fine Arts alumni
Turkish male sculptors
20th-century Turkish sculptors
Academic staff of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University