Sculptor (B. 1921,
Edirne - D. 30th December 1986, Stockholm / Sweden). After having completed
his secondary education in Edirne, he entered the Painting Department of the İstanbul
Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi (T.N. Istanbul Fine Arts Academy) in 1941. The following
year, he passed to the department of sculpture and he became the student of
Rudolph Belling. When he finished the academy (1946), he went to Paris with the
scholarship he won and he worked on sculpture for five years there. He
participated to the exhibition Realités
Nouvelles (New Realities) in 1948.
He came back to Turkey
in 1951 and he became an assistant in the department of sculpture of the academy.
He continued his sculpture works between the years of 1951-58. Besides, together
with Şadi Çalık and Sadi Öziş, he founded the atelier named “T Galeri” aiming
to produce metal furniture. In 1955, he participated to the establishment of
“Grup Espas”, together with the architects Tank Carım and Hadi Bara. In 1957,
he was assigned as the teacher of the metal atelier of the academy.
In these years, he made the embossments in the east
side of Anıtkabir, together with Zühtü Müritoğlu. Some of his works of this
period were exhibited in the biennales of 1956 Venice
and 1957 Sao Paulo.
In 1959, he left his position in the academy and he went to Sweden. In
1967, he became an academic member in the Stockholm High School of Applied Arts
and he continued this work until the end of his life.
Koman, who examined closely various art movements
since his years of studentship, also examined closely the contemporary art
movement when he was in France and he adopted the geometric-abstract
perception. He made expressionist-abstract works in the years of 1963-64. After
1965, a lyric-abstract expression was started to be seen in his works. He made
experimental works on geometric shapes in the beginnings of the 1970s. In
addition to completely geometric-abstract sculptures, he also realized a series
of sculptures name Sonsuz that were the
synthesis of figurative and geometric shapes. He created a dynamic installation
with a spiral arrangement in these works. In 1980, he screwed the metal bars to
each other and he created a series of monumental sculpture that recalled the
antique Nike sculptures.
The project
of Koman winning the first place in the competition of square arrangement in Sundsvall in 1967 was
implemented in 1971. In 1970, his work named Leonardo Anıtı was deemed worthy of one of the first price awards
(together with the architect Çetin Kanra) in the competition of the sculpture
to be put in front of the Municipality Building of Örebro. This work was bought
by the Swedish government afterwards and was put in front of the Stockholm Architecture
High School. In
1981, he won the Sedat Simavi Vakfı Görsel Sanatlar Ödülü (T.N. Visual Arts Award
from the Sedat Simavi Foundation), together with the painter Yüksel Arslan. He
participated in the expedition of the Grönningen
Group in Denmark as a guest artist in 1986.
