SEVGİ ÜRÜM

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BIOGRAPHY OF SEVGİ ÜRÜM

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BIOGRAPHY of SEVGİ ÜRÜM
Sevgi Urum was born in Ankara on 19th.November 1953. Graduated from the Graphic Art Branch, Drawing and Painting Department of Gazi University, in Ankara 1974. Complated her licence degree at Anadolu University in Eskisehir, in 1994. Worked in The Ministry of National Education,as a graphic and painting artist,as an art teacher in the high schools for 22 years. Worked at the Educational Center for Film-Radio and Television in Ankara,as a graphic artist(1976-1981).She worked as an artist and teacher of educational technology at the Center of Educational Materials in Izmir (1981-1985). She worked as an art teacher in High Schools and Ege University.(1985-1996) While she worked officially she continued to do artworks and activities.She joined many solo and group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad since 1974. Her works are in many public and private collections in Turkey and many countries of the World.

Sevgi Urum founded ;
Aegean University Art Studio in 1996,
Mediterranean Artists Group –MAG (International Visual Artists Group),in 2008. Organized the first International MAG-IAE realized in Antalya/Turkey,in 2008.
MAG project web-blog: http://mediterraneanartists.blogspot.com.

She has created Worldwide Artists For Peace International Art Action Project-W-AFPIAAP
in 2008,
Concerning this project organized the first International Art Action for Peace in Istanbul -Turkey 2009,on the main theme Art For Peace.
web-site;

http://w-afpiaap.org, Web-Blog: http://artistsforpeace-artactionistanbul.blogspot.com
Personal web-sites:http://www.sevgiurum.com, http://sevgiurum.blogspot.com

Sevgi Urum continues artworks in Istanbul / Turkey. She is the member of A.I.A.P. Unesco (International Plastique Arts Association) and Association of Fine Arts (GSB).
Contacts :

e-mail: sevgiurum@gmail.com
mobile tel: +90 533 414 10 93, Studio tel & Fax ; + +90 212 255 45 95

SELECTED ART ACTIVITIES
1974 Gazi Education Institute Exhibition, State Fine Arts Gallery-Group, Ankara 1977 Turkish-American Associate Art Gallery-Group, Ankara 1986 “ Working Women” Is Art gallery-Solo , Izmir. 1987 Efes Museum Art Gallery-Solo, Selçuk, Izmir 1987 Kusadasi Tourism Information Art Gallery-Solo, Kusadasi 1989 Turgut Pura Art Gallery-Solo, Izmir 1990 “ Human and Nature” Esbank Art Gallery-Solo , Izmir 1990 Dikili Culture And Art Festival, Dikili-Solo ,Izmir 1991 Emlak Bank Art Gallery-Group, Istanbul 1991 Dikili Culture And Art Festival-Solo, Dikili ,Izmir 1992 Bergama Kermess, Bergama Mun. Exhibition Hall, Bergama-Solo , Izmir 1993 “ Relations”, Esbank Art Gallery-Solo , Izmir 1993 Yapi Kredi Art Gallery-Solo , Balikesir 1993 Is Art Gallery-Solo, Izmir 1994 San-Art Collection-Solo, Izmir 1994 Central Cafe Exhibition Hall, Kusadasi-Solo , Aydin 1995 Evrensel Culture Center-Group, Izmir 1995 Turism Information Exhibition Hal-Solol, Foça, Izmir 1996 Efes Hikmet Gürçay Art Gallery-Solo , Selçuk , Izmir 1997 International IAEWP Environment and Peace Congress-Solo, Giresun 1997 Denta Form Gallery-Solo, Ankara 1998 ” Life in Still Life”, Iletisim Art Gallery-Solo, Izmir 1998 International Art Fair-Solo , Izmir 1999 Denizli Art Lovers Club Gallery-Solo, Denizli 1999 State Fine Arts Gallery-Solo, Eskisehir 1999 State Symp. Orchestra Exhibition Hall, Ismet İnönü Art Center-Solo, Izmir 2000 International Blacksea Festival, Can Akengin ArtCenter-Solo, Giresun 2000 Is-Art Gallery-Solo, Izmir 2001 “ Colors of Music ”, HC Art Gallery-Solo, Istanbul 2001 Cesme Museum Art Gallery-Solo, Cesme 2001 The Sheraton Hotel Art Exhibition Hall-Solo, Ilica ,Çesme 2001 Goethe Institut -Solo, izmir 2002 Ephesus Ancient City-Solo ,Selcuk 2003 Kusadasi Public Library Art Hall-Solo, Aydın 2005 Omma Art Gallery Chania-Group , Crete -Greece 2005 Old Harbour Open Exhibition-Solo, Chania - Crete -Greece 2005 Istanbul Art Fair-Solo, DNR-Istanbul 2005 Miami Art Basel DVD show-Group, Florida, USA 2006 “ Ephesus Paintings” Tureb Activity Hall-Solo, Istanbul 2006 Antik Hotel Cistern Art Hall-Solo, Istanbul 2006 Antalya Museum art Gallery-Solo, Antalya 2007 “ To the Colors from the Stones” ,Taksim Art Gallery-Solo, Taksim Istanbul 2007 “ Travelling with Colors” , Antik Hotel Cistern Hall-Solo, Istanbul 2007 Salabarna Gallery-Solo, Barcelona-Spain 2007 “ Variations “, Antalya Museum Art Gallery-Solo, Antalya 2008 “ Olive&Peace”, Olive Fest-Workshop-Exhibition-Group, Girne-Cyprus 2008 Mediterranean Artists Group 1st International Art Event-MAG, Antalya (Organiser+Participant) 2008 2nd International Mail Art Exhibition-Group, Thessaloniki-Greece 2009 International Environmental Art Symposium-Exh.Thessaloniki-Greece 2009 “ From Ephesus to Ithaca”,Ores Gallery-Solo, Ithaca-Greece 2009 Worldwide Artists For Peace 1st International Art Action- Istanbul 2009- (Organiser+Participant) 2010 “Protect Wildlife Heritage-An Appeal by Children”, Participant in International Exhibitions & Workshops in Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh – India 2010 “Keep Our Planet Alive” International Symposium-Denmark&Sweden 2010 Peace Festival-Participation with the project “Wall For Peace”-Bosnia-Herzegivona 2010 Wall For Peace-Worldwide Artists-W-AFPIAAP 2010- Curating & Organising 2010. Wall For Peace-İstanbul2010-20.İstanbul Art Fair(ARTIST2010 TUYAP)-Curating, Participation 2011 International Biennial İzmir of Arts-Participation 2011 “ Inner Peace-Portraits in One Color”- Project Design(WFP-W-AFPIAAP) 2011 Wall For Peace-Travelling Art Action-Balkan 2011-Project design-Coordination

ART PROJECTS BY SEVGI URUM

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WORLDWIDE ARTISTS FOR PEACE INTERNATIONAL ART ACTION PROJECT- W-AFPIAAP

The project was initiated and created by the artist Sevgi ÜRÜM on the February of 2008.

Turkish artists Sevgi Ürüm and Evrensel Ürüm organised the first art action;

W-AFPIAAP-İSTANBUL2009.

Many international worldwide artists have been supporting the initiative since the beginning.

TERMS AND GOALS

and violence!!!

Sevgi URUM

W-AFPIAAProject
Initiative Artist&Creator

http://www.sevgiurum.com
http://sevgiurum.blogspot.com

Project Blog Address;

Contact;
artactionistanbul@gmail.com
sevgiurum@gmail.com

TANIM VE AMAÇ

Sanat ,dostluk ve Barış ile,

Sevgi ÜRÜM

Translation from English to German:

Espanol traduccion/

ARTE y la PAZ en sus corazones.

Translation from English to French
Mosaic Artist Igor LASZLO /France

contre la guerre.

avec le même but.

global et mondial."

Sevgi URUM

W-AFPIAAP
Initiative Artist&Creator

http://sevgiurum.blogspot.com
http://www.geocities.com/sevgiurum

Project Blog Address;

Contact;
artactionis
sevgiurum@gmail.com

W-AFPIAAP

WORLDWIDE ARTISTS FOR PEACE INTERNATIONAL ART ACTION PROJECT

An Artists Initiative by Sevgi ÜRÜM

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“Our goal is to realize visual international art actions by taking ART for PEACE as the main theme theme in promoting artfriendship, solidarity and peace, in an active attitude against war and violence!!!…

Each artist is a “peace-artist” who devotes oneself to art…
Art is the conjunction point of the paths opening to “the World Peace” and the luminous face of peace…Art lets heat, color, feel, think and inquire. It is an atmosphere, where the balance and communication between the internal and external worlds will be scrutinized and commented, within the aesthetic solutions can be embraced. Peace is a concept which we imagine as a harmony of the life...

The ART and PEACE are intensively one within the other. Peace is with art, art is in peace!!…

Worldwide- Artists for Peace International Art Action Project is open to worldwide artists to share the passion of ART&PEACE and creating the art with this aim!...”

For more information; http://afp-iaa.co.nr

Sevgi Ürüm Art Gallery

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From the Press

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Photos from Exhibitions

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Antalya Museum Art Gallery 2007

TUREB Art Hall 2006"Ephesus Paintings"

Chania/Crete /Greece Street Exhibition2005

Antik Cisterna "traveling with colors" 2007

SEVGİ URUM SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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1986 Is Art gallery (TR Is Bank)/ Izmir.
1987 Ephesus Museum Art Gallery, Selçuk/ Izmir
1987 Turizm Information Art Hall/Kusadasi
1989 Turgut Pura Foundation Art Gallery/ Izmir
1990 Esbank Art Gallery / Izmir
1990 International Dikili Culture And Art Festival/ Dikili /Izmir
1991 Emlak Bank Art Gallery, Istanbul
1991 International Dikili Culture And Art Festival/ Dikili /Izmir
1992 Bergama Kermess, Bergama Municipality Exhibition Hall/ Bergama / Izmir
1993 Esbank Art Gallery (February) /Izmir
1993 Yapi Kredi Bank Art Gallery (May)/ Balikesir
1993 Is Art Gallery (December)/ Izmir
1994 San-Art Collection Hall/ Izmir
1994 Central Cafe Exhibition Hall, Kusadasi / Aydin
1995 Evrensel Culture Center /Izmir
1995 Turism Information Exhibition Hall, Foça/Izmir
1996 Efes Hikmet Gürçay Art Gallery , Selçuk / Izmir
1997 International IAEWP Environment and Peace Congress, Province Art Gallery Giresun
1997 Denta Form Gallery/ Ankara
1998 Iletisim Art Gallery/ Izmir
1998 International Art Fair / Izmir
1998 Denizati Art Gallery / Gümüldür , Izmir
1999 Denizli Art Lovers Assosiation Art Gallery/ Denizli
1999 TRState Fine Arts Gallery/ Eskisehir
1999 "Visual Reflections from Symphony" Ismet Inonu Art Center/Izmir
2000 International Blacksea Festival Can Akengin Art Center/Giresun
2000 Is-Art Gallery /Izmir
2001 HC Art Gallery, Colors of Music/ Istanbul
2001 Cesme Museum Art Gallery/Cesme
2001 The Sheraton Hotel Art Exhibition Hall, Ilica / Cesme
2001 Goethe Institut/ izmir
2002 Celsus Library /Ephesus Ancient City
2003 TRMinistry of Culture Public Library Art Hall/Kusadasi
2005 Omma Art Gallery Chania / Crete / Greece
2005 Old Harbour Street Exhibition Chania / Crete / Greece
2005 Miami Art Basel DVD show ,NY Art Magazine Org./ Florida , USA
2005 International Art Fair,DNR/Istanbul
2006 Antik Hotel Cisterna Art Gallery/ Beyazit Istanbul
2006 Tureb Exhibition Hall/Istanbul
2006 Antalya Museum Art Gallery/Antalya
2007 Antik Hotel Cisterna Art Gallery.Beyazit/Istanbul
2007 Taksim Art Gallery of İstanbul Municipality/Istanbul
2007 President Hotel/Athens/Greece
2007 Sala Barna Art Gallery/Barcelona/Spain
2007 Antalya Museum Art gallery/Antalya

Participation in many group exhibitions and art events.

Biography and some publish notes on Sevgi Ürüm

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BIOGRAPHY

Sevgi Urum was born in Ankara on 19th.November 1953.
She graduated from the Graphic Art Branch, Drawing and Painting Department of Gazi University, in Ankara 1974. .She completed her licence degree at Anadolu University in Eskisehir, in 1994.

She worked in The Ministry of National Education,as a graphic and painting artist,as an art teacher in the high schools for 22 years.Within this period she worked at the Educational Center for Film-Radio and Television in Ankara,as a graphic artist(1976-1981).She worked as an artist and teacher of educational technology at the Center of Educational Materials in İzmir (1981-1985).She worked as an art teacher in High Schools and Ege University.(1985-1996)
While she worked officially she continued to do artworks and art activities.She joined many solo and group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad since 1974.
Her works are in many public and private collections in Turkey and many countries of the world.
Her writings on arts are published in art magazines and papers.
Sevgi Urum lives in Istanbul,Turkey.She continues artworks at her art studio in Taksim Firini Sokak,8/3/Beyoglu/Istanbul/Turkey

She is the member of I.A.A.Unesco (InternationalPlastique ArtsAssociation) and Association of Fine arts(GSB) ,She is the member of many international and national art web-sites some of them below:

http://www.geocities.com/sevgiurum
http://www.creativeurope.com/sevgiurum
http://www.artmajeur.com/sevgiurum
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist(sevgi urum)
http://www.artmesh.org/sevgiurum
http://www.artdo.com
http://www.equilibriarte.com

e-mail: sevgiurum@yahoo.com.com/sevgiurum,sevgiurum@gmail.com
mobile tel: +90 533 414 10 93 Home tel :+90 216 642 52 23 Studio Tel:+90 212 255 45 95

PUBLISHED NOTES FROM SEVGİ URUM'S EXHIBITIONS

.............ON "EPHESUS PAINTINGS"

"Ephesus Paintings” are the symbolic and visual resultants of the light and the magic which will be reflected to our contemporary life,coming out from the ancient periods.
Many artists,were attracted with the various dimensions of this universe.
From the lines of my view this is a starting point just like a passion that I can not give up in my paintings. This visuality comes up on different positions on my canvases;sliping off reasons-results,leaving behind rules,forms and limits,mixing with life and it draws a path for itself.
2006 ,Sevgi Ürüm

...........ON EPHESUS PAINTINGS

“Sevgi Ürüm takes the contrasts as a symbol of resisting on her painting.sometimes fictional sometimes spontaneously, saying;”to break the chain,to set free the soul,there is the mutation in genuine of life”.
“She starts to her paintings with many impressions, drawings, sketchs and when she paints on the canvases , she goes to different forms by using forms spontaneously and spesific sensitive colours. She uses a visual language becoming allegorical, symbolic
elements.”
2006 ,Ersan Çagatay, Art Researcher

...........ON “COLOURS OF MUSIC”

I have entered into the world of music with my colors in the year 1998.The designs, which I have drawn during the symphony concerts, have been transformed into the colors on my canvasses, where the dimensions of music have been unified with the sensations of colors with my artistic feelings. In the creation process of “Colors of Music”, the musicians take the central position in my compositions.

Art wil be composed in the brain and accompanied by the body, for which the artist is most important...

My aim is to visualize whatever and however I have been impressed by the music and the musicians, to feel and to make people feel the greatness and infinity of both;music and painting.
2001,Sevgi Ürüm

.........VISUAL EFFECTS FROM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

“Sevgi Urum’s “Symphony of Colors”,sometimes appears,sometimes disappears softly and foggy.dark areas have been hidden perfectly. light areas have original and special light.
These are neither the lights of Rembrandt nor the lights of Dali. Are these the lights of Sevgi Urum...?
Virtual spaces arising from small holes into the infinity...
Sevgi Ürüm calls the viewers to observe their own universe of the figures in her paintings.
She is not satisfied with the less,she wants much more.The points and tones of her colors are worth to praise.
So that Sevgi Urum will let mention more about her art in the future...

1999,Ergun Peker Art Criticer, writer

“Sevgi Urum is a real artworker! In her last exhibition she turns her cameras on to the universe of musicians, who play violin, cello, guitar etc. being the subjects of her paintings. Ürüm works figurative, but not photo-realistic. She gives a different taste with her abstractions, with richness of colors and her deformations to her stile.There is almost a tulle curtain in front of her paintings.This impression takes you to the world of dreams full of appelings. Peace and polifony come at first in her paintings.
She meanwhile says:”Art has to have harmony with the poliphony of our century”.
Could you achive the peace and love without poliphony...?
30. 12.1999, Dincer Sezgin, Author,Poet,Colomnist Writer of Radikal Newspaper

On “LIVING NATURMORTS”

“I work with the effects of the native themes under the dominance of the concepts of yesterday, today, tomorrow and infinity.The vase, the table ,the chair, the flower, the cover on them as “nature morte” objects will be applied for announcing the term of liveliness. Each object takes the color which ever it wants to be. Each part of the art painting becomes the desired painture.The contradictions on the surface,going around, wandering and transforming, the changes of rhythm, colors and symbols please me.”

1998,Sevgi Ürüm

On “ RELATIONS”

“The events, the people, their relations,the happenings in the society I observe, unit in artistic elements on my canvas. Each painting has not got a separated theme but each of them participates in a main streamline; people and their story,their symphony and their theatral appearance on the painting plane. The figures with their symbolic roles, reflect an attitude, a sense or a relation. I prefer a way of painting without repeatings and actual fashionable forms, but with an intensive artistic anxiety. This is not a coincidental search.”

I996, Sevgi Ürüm

From A RADIO INTERWIEV with artist SEVGİ ÜRÜM in Turkish Broadcating Corporation TRT in 1990

Question 3: There were “ Girls coming from the harvest”,””Picking hazelnuts up”.”women, who carries woods” in your first exhibition in 1986. What kind of differences were in your paintings since that exhibition?

Answer 3: I spent my childhood at the Black Sea Region, where there is my home town.
I was so influenced by the diligence and productivity of village women workers. I wished to work figurative on my first paintings. So that these subjects were suitable for me.I leave the process of my paintings in a spontaneous development.Finally,I turned towards the semi abstract working stile by figure and color .

Question 4: You live in İzmir since 1981.You say that we can not think the person out of his social environment and the artists are always under the influence of it. In that case; what are the influences of Aegean Region on your art?

Answer 4: I went away from locality on my works. Started working about human relations and problems.I take thuman who are in a changing pocess by the highest technology and different relations , communications. I mean , there is “love” and “sensibility” in the human soul in fact.

Question 6: Have You been influenced on your artworks by some art streams or artists?Might we make interested your paintings as stile and form , into any art group?

Answer6: An artist has to know the development process of his or her own art .It is normal for an artist to be influenced. But the art has to go a specific sutructure, finally. I have an approaching as an expressionist although I don’t see myself connected with an art stile or group .It is better to leave the art in to the process of change.

Art Producer Kemal Moralı ,1990,TRT

Idols to Greece from Anatolia

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To the Colors from the Stones

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Ephesus Paintings II

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Antique Animalcules

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The Birds

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Ephesus Paintings I

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