Winners of Çanakkale Art Prize on display
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Kasım 24, 2008 00:00
ISTANBUL - The 25 award winning works of the Third Çanakkale Painting Competition, organized by the Sydney-based Gallipoli Memorial Club and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, or ÇOMÜ, are on display at Gallery Işık, in Istanbul’s Işık University.
An opening ceremony was held Friday with the participation of famous journalists Haluk Şahin and Oğuz Aksever, Australian Ambassador Peter Doyle, Australian Consul General to Çanakkale Peter Rennert, the Istanbul Mimar Sinan University Rector, Professor Rahmi Aksungur, the dean of Işık University’s faculty of fine arts, Professor Süleyman Saim Tekcan, famous director Metin Erksan and Çanakkale Industrialists and Businessmen Association Chairman Hüseyin Yalman.
"As part of the same project, a similar competition has been organized in Australia under the title ’Gallipoli Painting Competition.’ This not-for-profit project is the expression of our gratitude to heroic soldiers, who lost their lives for the sake of the establishment of a free country, the Turkish Republic," said officials from the Australian Consulate General in Çanakkale.
10-year project
Rennert in a speech about the project said, "The 2008 Çanakkale Painting Competition is the third step of a 10-year project. It will conclude with a final painting competition held in 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Çanakkale Wars. Later a total of 20 award winning paintings from the competitions will be displayed in exhibitions in Turkey, Australia and New Zealand."
The paintings deemed worthy of awards in the exhibition were determined by a jury that included Aksungur, Tekcan, Rennert, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University rector, Professor Ali Akdemir, and internationally renowned Turkish painter and International Association for Plastic Arts Turkey, or UPSD, spokesman, Bedri Baykam.
The winner of the first prize was Asuman Tuncay. Other winners included Süheyla Karaloğlu, who won the Governorship Prize, Serkan Şen, who won the Embassy Prize, and Evren Sungur, the winner of the Rectorate Award.
The exhibition will continue until Nov. 29 in Istanbul and then move to Ankara.
"As part of the same project, a similar competition has been organized in Australia under the title ’Gallipoli Painting Competition.’ This not-for-profit project is the expression of our gratitude to heroic soldiers, who lost their lives for the sake of the establishment of a free country, the Turkish Republic," said officials from the Australian Consulate General in Çanakkale.
10-year project
Rennert in a speech about the project said, "The 2008 Çanakkale Painting Competition is the third step of a 10-year project. It will conclude with a final painting competition held in 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Çanakkale Wars. Later a total of 20 award winning paintings from the competitions will be displayed in exhibitions in Turkey, Australia and New Zealand."
The paintings deemed worthy of awards in the exhibition were determined by a jury that included Aksungur, Tekcan, Rennert, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University rector, Professor Ali Akdemir, and internationally renowned Turkish painter and International Association for Plastic Arts Turkey, or UPSD, spokesman, Bedri Baykam.
The winner of the first prize was Asuman Tuncay. Other winners included Süheyla Karaloğlu, who won the Governorship Prize, Serkan Şen, who won the Embassy Prize, and Evren Sungur, the winner of the Rectorate Award.
The exhibition will continue until Nov. 29 in Istanbul and then move to Ankara.