Sencer Sarı
Sencer Sarı (born Hasan Sencer Sarı
15 March 1982) is a Turkish ceramicist.
Academic activity
Sarı started his studies at Yeditepe University, Department of Visual Communication and Design, Istanbul between 2001 and 2002. He continued his studies in Çanakkale On Sekiz Mart University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Ceramic betweem 2002 and 2006 and later attended the same university for his Masters' degree between 2007 and 2010 where he completed his master’s degree in the Department of Ceramics, Çanakkale 18 Mart University in 2010 where his master’s thesis project "Low-temperature Chromated Glazes" was published under Scientific Research Projects. It was during this time during his studies, he focused on artistic ceramic forms along with experimental ceramic technology supporting these forms. He worked with Nuri Civelek on sinter, alkaline metals and ceramic matrix composites in 2006. Sarı worked with experimental ceramicist/sculptor İbrahim Tayfun Durat between 2005 and 2009 on low-temperature glazed and chromated glazes.
In 2013, he completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Ceramics and Glass, National Art Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria with the thesis titled "reaching copper-red glazes in low-temperature and oxygenated atmosphere". Sarı has resumed his technological research during his Ph.D. studies where he developed "smoke-free reduction techniques" in electric ovens and interior places by reduction of petroleum. With this new method, the artist achieved to provide copper red color difficult to provide in ceramic technology. Research which began in 2006 in the Civelek Porcelain Research Center still continues on domestic manufacturing of refractory armor and sintered alumina supported ballistic vests. Sarı has been working with technology and art in parallel, and successfully implemented works of art by using the techniques of uranium silicate’s phosphorus effects on porcelain bodies since 2011. Sarı is also a member of the International Association Of Art Turkish National Committee UNESCO AIAP, since 2007.
Art activity
On 2 May 2006, "Aqua" by Sarı was awarded the Şima Art Special Award in 9th Rotary International Golden Jug Ceramic Contest at İzmir Art and Sculpture Museum and Gallery. On 12 September 2007 Sarı held a solo exhibition titled "Masks & Sensations" (Turkish: Duyumlar ve Maskeler) at UNESCO – AIAP International Plastic Arts Association Gallery, Istanbul. Later that year on 27 October he had participated in two separate group exhibitions titled Mediterranean Sea & Homesickness (Turkish: Akdenizlilik ve Gurbet) by UNESCO AIAP and mixed group exhibition by Turkish Collective Artists’ Union at 2007 Tüyap Artist Art Fair.
Since 2011 Sarı has been working on creating ceramics works that take advantage of the glow properties of the radioactive uranium silicates. According to Sarı, there are two shades of red (copper red and uranium red) that are very difficult to achieve in glaze and ceramics and that a small surface of uranium red can be produced by burning uranium nitrate in high temprature. He was able to experiment with radioactive rare elements during his PhD studies in Sofia and that he was able to successfully significantly reduce alpha particle radiation from glaze and ceramics using radioactive uranium by using lead and lithium oxide layer coating which is further coated by glass layers. On 30 November 2012, Sarı held a solo exhibition at Vuzf University exhibition hall, Sophia with an "Anemones in Red" theme demonstrating this work with red uranium.
Between 20 October and 7 November 2014 he held a solo exhibition with the title "From the Sea" (Turkish: Denizden Gelenler) at Tünel Art Gallery, Istanbul.