MEHMET EREN ESKİKAN | NAMİAbout Artist Mehmet Eren Eskikan started to express himself as an artist with his drawings in 2009, Eskikan graduated from Dumlupnar University Fine Arts Faculty Ceramic and Glass Department in 2014. He completed his masters degree at Hacettepe University Fine Arts Faculty Ceramics Department right after. During this time, he took part in various national and international workshops and group exhibitions. Eskikan, who started his way with the

theory of the Duende

drawing inspiration from vibrant Meso-American traditions and modernist aesthetics

Sükan lives and works in New York and Istanbul

and experimental videos

Ben Miller and a surreal cameo by Cillian Murphy

His artistic production includes paintings

including major outdoor light installations on the site of the old US Air Force base at Tempelhof

to sit in the VIP tribune of Paris’ Roland Garros with a bag over his head in 2004 at the time of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal

colors as monochromes and ceramics are some favorite elements that keep re-occurring in Hesselholdt & Mejlvang’s art

including the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia (1999)

the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst

the power and forces expressed through the plasticity of the images as well as the use of colours are the driving sources of the artist’s work