Hülya Vurnal İkizgül (born 1967) is a Turkish mosaicist,

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and

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artist.

Biography

She was born in 1967 in

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, Turkey. Following her graduation from the Faculty of Arts at the

Marmara University Marmara University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university, named after the Sea of Marmara, was founded as a university in 1982. However, its ...

in 1990, she made her master's degree in the same faculty. She worked in the Workshop of Mural under the direction of renowned painter Mustafa Pilevneli. She prepared her thesis on artists Eren Eyüboğlu and

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911 – 21 September 1975) was a Turkish people, Turkish Painting, painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet. His art work was inspired by Anatolian village scenes and folk literature, and included traditional ha ...

, titled ''The Art of Mosaic and the Mosaics of Bedri Rahmi - Eren Eyüboğlu''. According to critics: Between her fingers, the least stone becomes magic, and when she assembles of it hundred various size and color, she gives rise to splendid polychrome mosaics. With her panels represented accompanied by poetries and music composed by the author Hülya Vurnal İkizgül is an artist, who also expresses herself in the field musical and poetic, and which then makes a success of a made total work of echoes and correspondences, in order to better await an ideal condensed in this formula: "to live as at the interior of a dream". From 13 to October 29, 1992, she opened an "Exposition of Paintings and Sculptures Mosaic" in a historical site, the Museum of

Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia (; ; ; ; ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (; ), is a mosque and former Church (building), church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively ...

(Ayasofya Museum) in Istanbul. From 1 to October 31, 1994, as an invited artist representing of the modern art of mosaic, she exposed her "Mosaic Paintings and Sculptures" at the Museum of Archaeology of

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, France. Among ten prestigious exposures, it is noteworthy to also name that one of the "Paintings and Mosaic Sculptures" decorated the historical Darphane-i Amire (Imperial Mint) in Istanbul between October 16 and November 3, 2002. Inter alia, she has three works at the Museum of Archaeology of Istres, in Marseille.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ikizgul, Hulya Vurnal 1966 births Living people Artists from Istanbul Turkish ceramists Mosaic artists Marmara University alumni Turkish women sculptors 20th-century Turkish sculptors 21st-century Turkish sculptors 20th-century Turkish women artists 21st-century Turkish women artists 21st-century ceramists Turkish women ceramists 20th-century women sculptors 21st-century women sculptors Women mosaic artists