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Seyma Reisoglu Nalça (1959, Istanbul) is a faculty member in the ceramics department of Fine Arts Faculty of Marmara University, where she studied and completed her graduate studies (1990). Since 1988, She has had a number of solo shows (the last in Stuttgart, 2000) and has participated in international cultural activities in Istanbul, Ankara, Athens, Zurich, Tunis, France and Italy. She was one of the invited artists of the Istanbul Biennial in 1997. She was invited to become a member of the International Academy of Ceramics in 1991. She has been awarded many prizes, including the first prize in sculpture at the State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition in 1987, the Grand Prize of the “4 th Asia and Europe Biennial” in 1992. She was chosen as “The Artist of The Year” by the Science Council in Ankara in 1991.

Project
artist: Seyma Reisoglu Nalça
title: “on ‘Leyla and Mecnun'”
material: mixed media (candels, photographs, glass etc.)
work: installation, 300x500 m.
year: 2003
exhibition: “more wind ! – Four Contemporary Artists from Turkey”
gallery: Yokohama Portside Gallery
dates: Feb. 6 – Feb. 25, 2004

Seyma Reisoglu Nalça is contributing to “more wind” with an installation based on the famous love story “Leyla and Mecnun.” The artist illustrates her responses to the poem by Seyh Galib, with traditional love symbols such as propellers, flickering flames, melting candles and miniature figures who bare fire within their bosoms. She is questioning the themes of love and death within the same frame.

SEYMA REISOGLU NALCA
Seyma Reisoglu Nalça (1959, Istanbul) is a faculty member in the ceramics department of Fine Arts Faculty of Marmara University, where she studied and completed her graduate studies (1990). Since 1988, She has had a number of solo shows (the last in Stuttgart, 2000) and has participated in international cultural activities in Istanbul, Ankara, Athens, Zurich, Tunis, France and Italy. She was one of the invited artists of the Istanbul Biennial in 1997. She was invited to become a member of the International Academy of Ceramics in 1991. She has been awarded many prizes, including the first prize in sculpture at the State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition in 1987, the Grand Prize of the “4 th Asia and Europe Biennial” in 1992. She was chosen as “The Artist of The Year” by the Science Council in Ankara in 1991. Project artist: Seyma Reisoglu Nalça title: “on ‘Leyla and Mecnun'” material: mixed media (candels, photographs, glass etc.) work: installation, 300x500 m. year: 2003 exhibition: “more wind ! – Four Contemporary Artists from Turkey” gallery: Yokohama Portside Gallery dates: Feb. 6 – Feb. 25, 2004 Seyma Reisoglu Nalça is contributing to “more wind” with an installation based on the famous love story “Leyla and Mecnun.” The artist illustrates her responses to the poem by Seyh Galib, with traditional love symbols such as propellers, flickering flames, melting candles and miniature figures who bare fire within their bosoms. She is questioning the themes of love and death within the same frame.