Sadi Calik "Living In Order to Create Sculpture Where There is None"
Prepared by: Derya Nuket Ozer-Siren Calik
The exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of a pioneer of Contemporary Turkish Sculpture, Sadi Calik, was held at the Is Bank Kibele Art Gallery from 24 December 2004 to 26 February 2005. The exhibition was realized after three years of research into the archives and inventories of his works and interviews. Lost works were recreated for this exhibition and some of them recreated in larger scale. His sketches were shown for the first time at this exhibition. An inclusive biography containing the artist’s works and exhibitions prepared by his doughter Siren Calik and published under the title "Sadi Calik".
The Architectural Museum presents a part of this inclusive exhibition to its visitors. Works in the exhibition which are considered as turning points in the history of Turkish sculpture such as "Minimum", "METU Ataturk Memorial", "Abstract Sculpture” made for the METU Triple auditorium, and the Republic's 50th Anniversary Monument at Galatasaray are accompanied by Siren Calik’s text, and interviews made with Sadi Calik.
The exhibition contains significiant data for those interested in subjects such as research into the art of 20th century Turkish Sculpture and the relationship between sculpture and architecture.
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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 compl...
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Neoclassic Works
Sadi Calik worked systematically on design between 1932 and 1939 in the Izmir studio of his teacher Abidin Elderoglu. He learned very thoroughly the principles of classic technique and design, composition and balance. In 1939, he began studying Plastic Arts in the Sculpture Section of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ist...
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Abstract Sculptures
This first abstract work done in plaster in 1950, is an interpretation of nature. Just like Henry Moore, who says he learned from stones and bones throughout his life, as a teacher, Sadi Calik told his students in the 1968 academy journal exactly what it was he expected of them: the Plastic Arts encompasses the rese...
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Monuments
Sadi Calik has a special understanding of a symbolic indivuality and unity in the relatioship between space and mass. In particular, the attitude seen in his monumental works seems like a new interpretation of the symbolic significance. The influential impression of minimalism and unity, begun in the model for his 1...
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Interview: ESI Magazine, 1956
ON THE SYNTHESIS OF SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE
Interview with sadi Calik
ESI Magazine.
In January we talked with Sadi Calik on the occasion of the opening of his joint exhibition with Nuri Iyem:
ESI: What is the new understanding of sculpture?
Sadi Calik: Previously painting and sculpture were thought ...
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