Jingdezhen International Studio invited the Residency artist from Turkey, Zehra Çobanlı, she will present a lecture titled: "Tradition as innovation " on Wednesday, May 15st, at Ceramic Art Avenue Flagship Store 2nd-floor lecture hall at 19:00. She would like to talk about how to seek the breakthrough by considering the traditional and the local during art innovation.
In the realm of a ceramist's creation, the dimensions seem to be infinitely extended. By deconstructing and reorganizing the Arabic alphabet with thousands of years of culture, and incorporating the relevant symbols from Turkish culture, she writes the language that synthesize these elements. Zehra Cobanl, with her blue language and unique calligraphy structure, achieves an independent original form of expression, design an endless dynamic form.
She wanders through blue dreams, portraying the faces of the imagination surrounded by visual art. The changes under the writing of this play rhyme is just like poetry.
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She came to the world of ceramics and add the plasticity of clay materials to the malleability of personal aesthetics and thinking. With the cornerstone of thousands of years of civilization and the accumulation of human handicrafts, she expresses her true emotions in ceramic art.
The power of the human hand to shape, the secrets of the sensory system and the desire for the unknown stages of life have always existed in the rigidity of plastic clay.
Zehra’s writing on clay, combined with the form of modern art, is woven with blue texture. The creation made blue itself associated with sensory consciousness.
Within this framework, the form of writing, as an aesthetic reality, as a work attached to form, has become the cyclic poetic view of human history in her subconscious.
The area where she lived in Turkey was rich in ceramic materials. At that place, the clay and glaze configurations are prepared by individuals. With much experience, she developed her own recipe. The blue clay, which is often made of cobalt oxide or colouring agent, and the red clay, which is made of iron oxide and a local type of clay, are both made by changing the proportion of oxides to give the clay its colour characteristics.
I don't rely too much on other people's reviews, and just work the way that works for me.
The pursuit of universality of art has always been the goal of Zehra ceramic art. She is based on her native land of grace, collecting traces of local traditional symbols. With the unique characteristics of these symbols transferred to her artistic form of expression. They do not leave the traditional culture itself, but combine with new art forms and pay tribute to the tradition.