Who is Günseli Kato?
Hello to everyone who can't start the day without TED(x)!
There is now less than a month and a half left until our event! You know we are doing everything we can to include you in this process. We don't want to take up too much of your time again, because we want to introduce you to someone right away:
Günseli Kato!
Born and raised in Istanbul, Günseli Kato's interest in painting began in 1974 when she attended the miniature classes given by Professor Süheyl Ünver at the Topkapı Palace Museum.
After winning Japan's Sato Scholarship in 1981, she completed her education by studying with Professor Hirayama Ikuo in the Traditional Japanese Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tokyo.
Günseli Kato has been teaching Turkish miniature art at the school she attended in Tokyo since 1983. Before returning to Turkey, she worked for 12 years in the studio of Takuo Kato, an expert in Islamic ceramic art. In 1994 the Günseli Kato Turkish miniature class was opened at the Asahi Newspaper Culture Center. Kato continues to teach at this school twice a year.
Since returning to Turkey, she has been bringing the traditional together with a contemporary understanding of art by blending Turkish and Japanese cultures and carrying elements of miniature art into fields such as performance, sculpture and painting. Through cultural elements she both highlights the past and creates a space beyond cultures. She has opened exhibitions that bring together these different artistic disciplines and ideals in many historic venues in Istanbul, and she continues her work. Kato, who continues to teach at the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication, is involved in new projects of the Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV). Since 2010 she has been producing and presenting programs about culture and art on Turkish television channels.
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