Balkan Naci İslimyeli Balkan Naci İslimyeli | THOUGHT PAUSES / Cross-Examinations

EKAV / Education, Culture and Research Foundation, painter, artist, academician and scholar Prof. who lost his life in 2022.
Balkan Naci İslimyeli, on his 76th birthday, September 20, the works published by Epsilon Publishing House and
It is commemorated with the exhibition STOPS OF THOUGHT / Cross-Examinations.

He can only focus on the uniques with the aphorisms he has adopted as an educational methodology throughout his 50-year artistic life.
Balkan Naci İslimyeli, who teaches us to live with principles, to have conscience and to be an exemplary person; with what he bought in his workshop
The light of the complexities in his mind was formed and this light was reflected in the structures.

Islimyeli left behind a powerful body of work and magnificent people who stepped onto the path of art in the light it shed. Epsilon
On September 20, the publishing house will publish İslimyeli's book Thought Stops as well as his poetry books Istanbul, Never and Passing.
will also publish it.

Thought Stops, curated by Gülfem Dedeoğlu, is a training program at İslimyeli's FMV Işık University.
The laboratories of Gökhan Balkan, Melih Koçali, Müjgan Sağlam, Nihal Sak and Şermin Kıvanç Seval from the institution came together.
brings. These works, which we can call the projection of İslimyeli's aphorisms, are included in Balkan Naci İslimyeli's "Unfounded Shadow".
and "Dream Paintings" collections.

THOUGHT STOPS / Cross-Examinations can be visited at Ekavart Gallery until October 15, 2023