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Classical ebru rediscovered in new exhibit in İstanbul
Düzgünman also conveyed this traditional outlook to his students. Now, the fruits of his labors are going on public display in a new exhibition that opened this week at İstanbul’s Yeni Camii Hünkar Kasrı in the Eminönü quarter.
“The Düzgünman School of Turkish Ebru,” commissioned by the İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, brings together several generations of Turkey’s most famous ebru artists, all of whom have -- either directly or indirectly -- followed in the footsteps of Düzgünman.
Featured in the collection are works by Alparslan Babaoğlu, Fuat Başar and Sabri Mandıracı, each of whom have become cult ebru artists who, in turn, raised such famous ebru makers as Sadreddin Özçimi, Hülya Nurten Demirel and Sedat Altınöz, whose works are also featured. Works by Düzgünman himself are also in the selection.
Curated by Özçimi, “The Düzgünman School of Turkish Ebru” thus offers an extensive look at classical ebru through the works of three generations of ebru makers from the Düzgünman school, which is billed by the exhibit’s organizers as “the strongest vein in the traditional Turkish art of ebru” from the 20th century onwards.
Although paper marbling has been gaining in popularity in recent years, it is a fact that in some cases it is being moved away from its historical roots and modernized, thus losing its traditional identity.
The exhibition is the first event in a project called “Ebru comes out of Tank,” by the İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency’s traditional arts department. “The project aims at contributing to the continuation of the classical style in ebru,” Ömer Faruk Şerifoğlu, the traditional arts director of the agency, says. Underlining that ebru is a unique form of art -- as each of the works produced are irreproducible, Şerifoğlu says that through this show and other events to come as part of the project, the agency wants to make ebru “more visible.”
Within this framework, admission-free ebru workshops will also be held in several public locations around İstanbul. The workshops will start on Sept. 18 and take place every Saturday from noon until 5 p.m. for five weeks in the usually more populous public areas of the city such as the Eminönü, Sultanahmet, Taksim and Kadıköy and in front of the Levent Metrocity shopping center. Works to be produced during these workshops will then be compiled into a catalog.
“The Düzgünman School of Turkish Ebru” exhibition will remain on public display until Oct. 3 at the Hünkar Kasrı. Visiting hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. every day, except Sunday.
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