Washi, a type of paper made in Japan, is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat. Now, washi paper will Turkish and Japanese cultures to meet.
Artist Aynur Küçükyalçın’s works at the Tolga Eti Gallery aim to create a relationship between the two cultures and make people aware of how different art concepts are alike.
The artist has chosen to use washi paper in order to combine Turkish and Japanese art. Her exhibition, titled “Japanese flowers in Ottoman garden,” consists of flower designs on huge washi papers.
It is possible to discover the conventional flower drawings from Ottoman art in the works of Küçükyalçın. The artist chooses to draw Japanese flowers with Japanese-style drawings.
Küçükyalçın works, which use the Japanese brush-stroke style “fude,” are on display throughout November.
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