Osman Dinç, 1948

Osman Dinç graduated as an art teacher from the Gazi Education Institute Art-Craft Department in 1969. He went to France in 1972 to study art and graduated from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts in 1975.

Osman Dinç’s work skillfully combines basic geometrical forms such as circles, ellipses, and spheres with materials such as iron and glass that have been used since ancient times and which are charged with symbolic meanings. The powerful expressiveness that Dinç achieves through using repeated, identical sculptural units is enhanced by his occasional references to works of art from other periods. Works such as “Time Fountain, Shuttle, Three Objects That Are Not Suitable For Travel, Voice Instrument, Drop, Three Beauties, Planet, Iron Age, Oppidum, Black Cypress, Tambour Caïque, Mask, Dew Fountain” incorporate references to human interests as well as to human history. Although Dinç’s favorite material is a mellow-colored, black steel he also adds glass, brass, mirror, and wood as required.

As in “Tambour Caïque”, he creates stark, simple forms that are inspired by nature and geometry and are suspended on vertical surfaces or erected by themselves on plinths or stood directly on the floor. These pieces create a striking discourse in which Dinç explores an iconography of form, material, and placement. Dinç’s minimal language of expression invites the viewer to communicate with the artist and to participate with him in the purification of feelings and thoughts.