Koral, Füreya

Hittite Sun, which dates to the mid-1950s, relates to a now-lost commission for the Hilton Hotel in Istanbul and the still-surviving Ka Han wall installation, made during a brief period when Koral was taking small ceramic pieces cut in round shapes and inserting them directly into the terracotta surface. The term “Hittite” refers to an ancient Anatolian people whose empire included parts of modern Turkey; interest in them increased with the founding of the modern Turkish Republic.