page_title: Mehmet Aksoy
section_title: Memorial to the Deserter
hierarchical_section_title: Mehmet Aksoy / Works / Memorial to the Deserter
caption_attribution_description: English: The Memorial to the Unknown Deserter, a sculpture created by Mehmet Aksoy in 1989; erected in Unity Square, Potsdam.
context_page_description: Mehmet Aksoy is a Turkish sculptor. His sculptures often contain sensual figurative elements, but he is strongly rooted in a modernist sensibility with strong conceptual and abstract elements in his work. He works primarily in stone but also incorporates other material, fusing metal or differing stones in a single sculpture. He presently resides and works in a studio of his own dramatic design on the outskirts of Istanbul.
context_section_description: Memorial to the Deserter (Turkish: İnsanlık Anıtı) is a statue in Unity Square, Potsdam, Germany created by Mehmet Aksoy. The figure in this memorial, which honors those who refuse to fight in unjust wars, is carved in negative relief, a technique that Aksoy employed in later work.
caption: Memorial to the Unknown Deserter (1989) in Potsdam
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