Başak Temel will display her first personal exhibition " Ellysion - Yeraltı Cenneti " [Ellysion Underground Heaven] for the appreciation of the art-lovers between November 15 and November 30, 2008 at the Gallery of Ankara State Art and Sculpture Museum with the support of Ministry of Culture and Tourism.


This exhibition will be the first one in Turkey to meet the art-lovers on Secondlife which displays a 3D second life simultaneously online. The virtual exhibition displayed on Secondlife which is considered to be the first simulation of the real life on the web and which has approximately 17.000.000 members from all over the world will be opened under the sponsorship of RIXOS at the gallery of the hotel named RIXOS World which is on the same platform on the 15th of November and will be presented to the viewers together with the information to be provided for a month on the web site www.slturkey.com. You can access the works and information related to the virtual exhibition from the address of www.basaktemel.com.


Graduating from the Department of Sociology of The Middle East Technical University, Başak Temel’s relation with art started while she was at the elementary school and she continued her studies based on the basic art education delivered by her mother being an art educator.


Believing that productivity and creativity is the indispensible source of development and bliss in human life, she continues her art works at the same time with her professional life. Başak Temel, who reflects her stance, living philosophy, experiences, sensitiveness, joy of living, happiness, anger, dreams and impressions in life through the visual elements such as color- form- texture on the canvas, works with a mixture of techniques on her works and creates original aesthetic tones by employing the opportunities of the known materials and techniques in an extremely wide and creative manner by using mirror for the clip arts and silicon and string for the relieves in her works that she colored with acrylic paint, spray paint and powder bronze. She arranges the abstract and symbolic shapes in her works in a way to reflect the rhythm of life, and creates a very special harmony and visual influence by combining the colors used in various tones and nuances, lusterless texture of the acrylic paint and the contrast relation between the bronze and gleam of mirrors.