Visualizing the spiritual soul,
Shining with the splendor of precious stones…
A collection dedicated to the light inside us.
Experience DIAMANTI,
by Sinan Turaman.
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Visualizing the spiritual soul,
Shining with the splendor of precious stones…
A collection dedicated to the light inside us.
Experience DIAMANTI,
by Sinan Turaman.
DIAMANTI is a series of portraits in oil, epoxy and crystal: the light of the soul, crystallized. Each canvas catches that light like a cut gem — fractured, luminous, and alive.
Turaman builds his surfaces from oil paint, glitter, reflective foil and layers of epoxy resin, so every piece keeps changing as you move past it — never quite the same painting twice.
Many of the faces in DIAMANTI carry names from the artist’s own family. The exhibition is, in part, a private act of remembrance made public — a tribute disguised as a portrait series.
Sinan Turaman is a multidisciplinary artist who has built two careers in Turkey’s creative world. He began as a painter, trained at a boarding fine-arts high school — until a theft of his early work during his university years pulled him away from the canvas and toward design.
Working with Outdoor Factory, he went on to shape some of Turkey’s most significant public monuments and museums, among them the Yassıada Museum of Democracy and Freedom, the July 15th Martyrs’ Monument, the Çanakkale Victory Museum, Uzbekistan’s national monument, and Miniatürk.
In 2025, during Milano Design Week, Turaman returned to painting with DIAMANTI — his debut exhibition at Didart Milano Gallery, and a homecoming that brought him back into the art world’s spotlight.
Biography by Dr. Suzan Somalı Sönmez — Milliyet Newspaper, Istanbul / Turkey
“I try to visualize people’s spiritual pleasures.”
— Sinan Turaman
A selection from the series — many of the faces painted here carry names from the artist’s own family.
Making of - Behind the scenes
DIAMANTI is a visual poem where light turns to crystal and feeling takes shape. Conceived around the idea that every soul is, in its own way, a jewel, the series was painted as a tribute to the light each of us carries.
Each portrait crystallizes that light into something hard and faceted — a deliberate contrast, the soul made stone. Yet the harder the surface, the more it seems to catch and multiply the light passing through it, reaching toward something transcendent, almost sublime. We invite you to step into it.