In order to promote and spread the Turkish Marbling Art Hikmet Barutçugil provided 169 courses and seminars, 99 lectures with 108 personal and 103 group exhibitions and 6 art therapies with the demonstration of the applied marbling art at home and abroad.
He transformed a historic mansion from the 1830s into a “museum gallery” that turns it into a house of Marbling Art.
In “Ebristan” İstanbul Marbling Art House, he continues his studies on paper, fabric, ceramic, glass, wood, etc. and continues to apply calligraphy, gilding, miniature and other traditional arts.
He is awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree by the Üsküdar University Senate because of his contributions in art, therapy and marbling art with a new, profound and different, innovative concepts and due to his studies in transitioning the marbling art from traditional to futuristic point of view.
It was a pleasure to meet him there and talk about how he crossed paths with this art, how he opened an exhibition in St.Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia, how he became the most well-known marbling art in Turkey, the secrets of the art of drop falling into the water and his own master's journey.
It was great meeting you, Hikmet Bey!
Thanks for your invitation and your time!
9 дек 2022
