Sema Okan Topaç

The artist was born in Izmir in 1975. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir in 1998.
In 1996, she won a special prize at the 4th Golden Jug ceramics competition at the Rotary Club of Izmir. She received her master’s degree in ceramic art from the Institute of Fine Arts of the same university. Okan Topac participated in several group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. She also attended many workshops and symposiums in Turkey and Finland. In 2007, she participated in the Art Meets Ice Sculpture competition as a Turkish team with Varol Topač and won the 6th prize.
1998 – Graduated from the Department of Ceramics at Dokuz Eylul University.
1999 – 2004 – In her workshop, she engaged in freelance and commercial work.
2004 – 2008 – Master’s degree at the Institute of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Ceramics, with a thesis and applications on the topic “Research and application of molten glass – Pâte de verre glass molding technique”.
2009 – Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Ceramics and Glass Design.

The Turkish artist Sema Okan Topac, using a universal art language, created sculptures with a very strong sensibility, but also skilfully reduced sculptural poetics. In the case of the large piece, the initial inspiration seems to have been in organic forms. However, such associativeness is quickly lost, and before us is a monumental sculpture whose processing is somewhat perfectionist, and clear plastic thought reached a convincing, pure expression thanks to the almost perfect communication between the artist and the material. The artist achieved an equally logical and natural flow of impulses in two gallery-format sculptures. Closed visual units give the impression of continuity and a rhythmic scheme of ideas around an imagined axis. Her monumental work from the same year, made in a different technique, is called “Good memories” and is almost identical to the Glaeri format that is in the permanent exhibition of the Terra Museum.

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