Title: Sedef Hatapkapulu's Art Exhibition at Millî Reasürans Art Gallery
Millî Reasürans Art Gallery surprises art circles by introducing the artist Sedef Hatapkapulu, who spent 15 years of her art career in Vienna and Moscow, returned to Istanbul in 2002, and is not widely known outside a limited circle in Turkey.
Sedef Hatapkapulu received her painting education from Neşe Erdok and Adnan Çoker at M.S.G.S.Ü Painting Department (1983-1986). She then pursued academic education at the Vienna Applied Fine Arts Academy Painting Department in Austria, where she lived for 15 years, earning her master's degree (1987-1994).
Hatapkapulu compares painting to living; she describes it as, "Firstly, what I see, traces that exist for a moment on the surface of the water and then disappear. Like the marks that emerge one after the other on the water's surface when the wings of a bird very close to the sea touch the water, immediately erased. However, they do not disappear; they sink to the bottom of the water. I'm not curious about the bottom of the water; not because I'm afraid of being hit. While thinking, I am not thinking with words. When drawing with color, stain, ink, I go, it says turn, I turn, it says close, I close, it says yellow, I say yellow, it says pink, I say pink. It can emerge in an unknown place. I do not know what I do not know; if I am pleased to meet, they stay."
When revealing the traces deep within during the challenging adventure towards the depths of the water, she also sees it as a journey into the "unknown." The sediments of the traces in the depths emerge as a painting in the language she knows best, according to the artist, they are "one hundred percent real."