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[March 15, 2006]

Painter Adnan Varinca to receive 2006 Aydin Dogan Award

(Turkish Daily News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)The winner of this year's Aydin Dogan Award, a prize bestowed annually by the Aydin Dogan Foundation, is painter Adnan Varinca, the foundation announced on Monday.

The foundation said in a statement that its board had decided to give the 2006 award in the category of painting with the aim of promoting this branch of the art and to encourage the involvement of future generations in painting.

A selection committee headed by painter Adnan Coker decided that Varinca was "worthy of the prize for his determined approach, which is also open to contemporary criteria, and his attention-grabbing inclinations that put emphasis on the values of painting," according to the statement.


Varinca will receive his award at a ceremony to be held at the Hurriyet Media Towers in Istanbul on April 18.

The Aydin Dogan Award has been given for the last nine years in such areas as culture, art, literature and science to people who have made contributions to his or her country, the world and humanity and have reached a certain expertise in their professions and devoted themselves to creativity, said the foundation.

About Adnan Varinca:

Varinca was born in Istanbul in 1918 and graduated from the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1948. Until 1956 he worked as an art teacher in several schools.

Varinca held his first solo exhibition in 1949 at the French Cultural Center in Istanbul.

From 1957 to 1973 he continued painting in Paris, where he participated in joint exhibitions with Turkish painters at the Fine Arts Academy. Varinca returned to Istanbul in 1973 and since then has held numerous solo exhibits in addition to group exhibitions. In 1980 Varinca was named one of the winners of the Sedat Simavi Foundation's Visual Arts Award along with Turan Erol.

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