The Faculty of Humanities and Letters and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture organized the event “Pigments, Colors and Ideas,” which took place on November 23–24, for the occasion of the 100th year of the Turkish Republic.
The Opening Reception at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations started with the welcome speeches by Prof. Dominique Kassab Tezgör, chair of the Department of Archaeology; Prof. Yasemin Afacan, acting dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and Yusuf Kıraç, director of the Museum. They were followed by Rector Kürşat Aydoğan’s speech.The inaugural lecture of the Symposium was given by Prof. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu (VEKAM, Koç University) with the title Color: The Perception of an Image. Afterwards, the opening of the exhibition Sinopia Contemporary Art, coordinated by Ekin Kılıç Ezer of the Department of Graphic Design took place. Faculty members of FADA together with well-known national artists presented artworks experimenting with the sinopia pigment used in antiquity and still extracted today in Cappadocia. Müge Mengü Hale of the Department of Communication and Design, did the media coordination for the program, which was attended by around 250 people. Pigments, colors and ideas were explored in the international symposium the next day on campus with papers presented by leading scholars from around the world. The event, which became the first symposium focusing on colors in Turkey, culminated with the exhibition of Ekin Kılıç Ezer and Beata Zalewska’s student workshops.
