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AYNUR
KÜÇÜKYALÇIN
Born on 1973 in Bandırma, the artist had decided to concentrate
on art after receıvıng a medal
ın a national arts
competition held by the Ministry of Energy of the Turkish
Republic. Following her
graduation from the high
school, attending to the “Fashion Design Institute” for two
years, she
received her diploma as a
designer. Continuing her education on the field, four years
later in 1998,
she graduated from Mimar
Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul, the department of
“Stage Arts
and Costume Design”.
Already in 1996, during her student years, her costume designs,
uniquely uniting the tradition
and the modern
attracted attention and an she was assigned by a Japanese
institution to design
the staff costumes of a
theme-park introducing Turkish culture in Niigata, Japan (Kashiwazaki
Turkish Culture Town).
Strongly believing that unless one masters his/her own tradition,
it is simply impossible to create
the new, she continued
her training in traditional Ottoman “Illumiation Art” (Tezhip)
for another four
years in the Topkapi
Palace.
Living in Kyoto Japan for a while, she is working on the
traditional Japanese arts. |
