Talented German Artist Shares Her Work With Jaensch Immigration Law Firm
Posted: May 8th, 2014 | Author: Peter Jaensch | Filed under: Athlete & Artist Visas, Jaensch Immigration Law Firm | Tags: Artist Visas, German Immigrants | No Comments »EBBA Kaynak, accomplished German sculpture artist, has been creating art based on the theme of “in-between” for years. When our firm helped one of her friends she heard about us and decided to get in touch.
Here below is a short description of her story with images of her work interspersed. Anyone interested can visit her website to learn more.
My life surely has quite a lot do do with the big question, where do I belong to… where is my “Heimat”?
My grandfather was a Sudet German lawyer in Reichenberg, the German part of former Chechoslovakia. After World War II all Germans were thrown out of that country, and my family moved to the soft hilly southwest of Germany. Although the landsape was similar to their beloved former home, the mentality of the Svabians was strange for them. My father, coming from Alsace, the German region of France met my mother in the Black Forest. Their love didn’t last long, so I grew up with my “Sudet German” family.
Growing up I always felt different from the others. In school I studied languages and mastered English, French and Latin. I went on to study Art in the Academy in Stuttgart, and learned Greek as well. During my summers at the academy I would go to Greece. That’s where I came to feel most “at home.”
At the end of my studies I met a Turkish man in Istanbul. We married, I learned the Turkish language, and we built a house in western Turkey. Changing my culture was not complicated for me, even though I was completely veiled. I loved my big Turkish family and raised my children there. Unfortunately, it all came to a bitter end.
Coming back to Germany was the beginning of feeling home there for the first time of my life. I bought a house, took care of my mother and children, rented a room in an old factory for atelier and began to work as an artist.
My connection to dance is very important to me. I discovered Salsa when I was 26 on a trip in South America. I got connected with the Salsa movement in Germany and I am still practicing. Most of the movement in my sculptures gets its origin in that rythm and motion.
I started my career as a sculpturor with a chainsaw and natural wood. My firth themes were either spirals or archaic round erotic female objects: Venus and AN-NA.
Later on I began to pose my AN-NAs between two shelves, creating the effect out of a single piece of wood. It was an expression of my situation of being “in between.” Soon I understood this new form as being the synonym for my own life in between all places and cultures. The situation of being “in between” became itself a sculptural body. The fictional walls at the left and at the right became arms and legs of a new art creature. This form changed over time from very abstract to more realistic.
In my hometown I’m now one of the best known artists. I make a living from selling my sculptures and pictures. The last four years I created a new form: the Cherubins on wheels, so described by Ezechiel in the old testament of the Bible. As he describes these angels as having wheels like “chrysolith,” I started making very small silver figures with wheels of chrysolith.
EBBA Kaynak, Schorndorf / Germany 2014
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