Sadi Calik "Living In Order to Create Sculpture Where There is None" |
From the photo album of Sadi Calik
At the beginning of the 20th century, the lives of people throughout the world turned upside down. War, revolution and migration scattered people in every direction. Sadi Calik’s life story began in Candia, Crete in 1917; but, following the exchange of population in 1923 he found himself in Izmir and entered a completely different phase in his life. Vague traces of the palace at Knossos remaining in his memory, the woods and shores of Urla, the friendships he made there, the awaiting economic restrictions, the loss of his father at an early age and his feeling for art would all become the basis for Sadi Calik’s later life. His introduction to the painter, Abidin Elderoglu, and the systematic study of art began under his guidance, later his time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, and in Paris, his marriage to Mufide, the sister of his good friend Necati Cumali, and the birth of their children, Siren and Osman, the happiness and anxieties he shared with his close friends, such as the well-known artists Cevat Sakir, Sabahattin Eyuboglu, Azra Erhat and other enlightened people and the joyful movement towards world freedom and independence in the 1960s were all a part of his life.
In 1950, when ideas about Modern Art began to appear in the country in which he lived, in spite of all the many differences of opinion and information, the difficulties of communication and the lack of a market for works of art, his desire to continue his life as a sculptor, in spite of all discouragement, led him to create monuments and statues which became milestones in the progress of Turkish sculpture and many well-known sculptors today who were taught by Sadi Calik are reflected in his photograph album.
Siren Calik
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Sadi Calik with relatives, Bornova, Izmir, 1928.
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"De profundis" period, 1930's.
Working on designs in Abidin Elderoglu’s studio.
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First designs, 1930's.
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In the Cumhuriyet Bar.
From left to right: Ferruh Basaga, Mumtaz Yener, Ihsan ?, Fethi Karakas, Kemal Artun, Nuri Iyem, Sadi Calik, Resat Sevincsoy, brother of Ihsan, sculptor Turgut Pura.
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Sadi Calik, working in Paris, 1950.
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