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Barol Topaç was born in Ankara in 1967. He graduated from the Sculpture Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Anadolu University in 1998. In 1999, he began working as a research assistant at the Sculpture Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Mustafa Kemal University. In 2003, he completed his master’s degree at the Institute of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University, while he worked as a research assistant at the same university. In 2006, Topaç returned to Mustafa Kemal University and served as a research assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He has had several solo exhibitions in Turkey. He has also participated in many group exhibitions and international symposiums in Turkey and abroad. Topaç received various awards in Turkey. He is a member of International Association of Plastic Arts, UNESCO and A.I.A.P.
Awards:
1996, Award of Merit, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition, Ankara
1997, First Price, Sculpture Competition organized by the Turgut Pura Painting and Sculpture Foundation, IZMIR
1997, Mention, TUR-ART Competition Organized by Ministry of Tourism, Ankara
1998, Special Jury Prize, Sculpture Competition Organized by Turgut Pura Painting and Sculpture Foundation, Izmir
1999, Award of Merit, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition, Ankara
2007, Sixth Price, “Art Meet Ice” International Ice Sculpture Competition, Helsinki
2007, Fourth Prize, 1.Tehran International Sculpture Symposium, Tehran
2007, Awrd of Merit, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition, Ankara
2008, Special Jury Prize, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition
Solo Exhibitions:
2002, Sculpture Exhibition, Başak Sigorta Gallery, Izmir
2005, Peace and Art Festival Dikili, Izmir
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1997, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition Exhibition, Ankara
1998, Exhibition of Young Activity TUYAP, Istanbul
1999, Sculpture Competition by İ.M.K.B. Exhibition, Istanbul
2000, Mustafa Kemal University, Education Staff Exhibition, Mersin
2000, Mustafa Kemal University, Education Staff Exhibition, Adana
2000, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition Exhibition, Ankara
2002, Four Artists Gallery Binyıl, Istanbul
2002, D.E.U. Education Staff, Isbank Art Gallery, Izmir
2002, D.E.U. Education Staff, Is Bank Art Gallery, Izmir
2003, Morges (Switzerland)
2003, International Art Centre Puustelli, Kemijarvi
2005, Virtual Presentation of Six Sculptors, Allaprima Museum (Finland)
2005, Ministry of Culture, Government Sculpture Competition Exhibition, Ankara
2006, “Summer gallery”, Fraustein, Saxon
2007, “small sculptures”, Sculptor Association, Tehran
2007, II. International Visual Art Meeting, Izmir Biennial, “lyric balance”, Izmir
2007, I. Adana International Contemporary Art Biennial, “the Vibrations”, Adana
2007, Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale, Chungnam, Gongju city (South Korea)
International Symposiums:
2002, 10th International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Hojer (Denmark)
2003, 6th International Sculpture Symposium, Morges (Switzerland)
2003, 14th International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Kemijarvi (Finland)
2004, 23rd International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Bardonecchia, Torino (Italy)
2004, 2nd International Youthful Sculpture Competition Workshop/Fines, Almeria (Spain)
2005, 1st International Stone Sculpture Symposium, Atatürk University, Erzurum
2005, International Wood Sculpture Symposium “Less is more again”, F.O.A.M (Finland)
2006, 3rd International Youthful Sculpture Workshop Competition (as a monitor ), Olula de Rio, Almeria
2006, 3rd International Sculpture Symposium ′Art in the Forest′, Sauze d’Oulx, Torino (Italy)
2006, European Art Symposium “landscape art and network”, Saxon, Dresden (Germany)
2006, 5th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Gongju city, Chungnam (Korea)
2007, “Art Meet Ice” International Ice Sculpture Competition, Helsinki (Finland)
2007, 1st Tehran International Sculpture Symposium, Tehran (Iran)
2007, 5th Portimao International Monumental Sculpture Symposium, Portimao, Algarve (Portugal)
2007, 16th International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Kemijarvi (Finland)
2007, 1st Imam Ali Painting Symposium “Justice and Compassion”, Tehran (Iran)
2008, 2nd Rural Week of Sculpture, Workshop competition (as a monitor ), Albancez, Almeria (Spain)
2008, 15th International Sculpture Symposium “Art and Stone”, Wunsiedel, Nurnberg (Germany)
2008, Installation Symposium in Labirent, Finnish Forest, Source of Art, Haukuvuori (Finland)
2008, Cukurova University Stone Sculpture Symposium, Adana
2009, “Art Meet Ice”, International Ice Sculpture Competition, Helsinki (Finland)
2009, “Blue Ice Art”, International Ice Sculpture Competition, Roveniami, Lapland (Finland)
2009, Third International Sculpture Symposium “ALANIKA”, Vladikavkaz (Republic of North Ossetia, Alania)
Artist Residence:
2007 International Artist Residence “for ice sculptures”, Kemijarvi (Finland)
Reference: vtopac.blogspot.com, artecomunicarte.com,
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