History rises within the brave and determined pages of groundbreaking revolutionaries.

Regardless of their field, politics, science, literature, or art, these revolutionaries are names that challenge the comfort of the established order that would seem to be lasting forever, do not shy away from the dark unknowns of the future, and at the same time question their own existence. In 1981, I made an abstract series consisting of eight paintings, which I summarized as "States and Changes". The sequential "change" that occurred as a result of similar "States" created by the ongoing interactions of the universe and on the other hand the earthquake- like strokes created in space with strong slaps to the established order, was the core, that is the center of the series.

In this universe, on the one hand, there are people who are part of the order, whose deepest reaction is to grumble, and on the other hand, there are the pioneers of the changes I mentioned, who do not hesitate to risk their everything. Some of them are as clear as day, known to all of us, while others remain as incognitos of history, without any complaint..

Their names are Spartacus, Darwin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Tesla, Jules Verne, Nazım Hikmet, Marx, Marie Curie, Salk, Lenin. It is Ataturk, it is Gandhi, it is Che, it is Steve Jobs, yes it is Steve Jobs, you read that right.

When we look at it within the scope of pure art, the artists, writers and thinkers who triggered many art movements and sociological winds in the period connecting the 19th century to the 20th, became the heroes of these giant leaps leading to total Metamorphosis. The names of these great steps, dating from the invention of the camera to the first half of the 20th century, are now Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Picasso, Jacques Vaché, André Breton, Picabia, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Arthur Cravan, Hans Jaeger, Munch, Magritte, Modigliani, Kisling, John Cage or it is Dali.

Some of them are household names to everybody, while some others can remain totally unknown.

However, their collective existence has shaped the modern world over the last 100 years or even more. With this series, if I can attract the attention of the new generation who do not know them or have only vaguely heard of them, and enable them to do more extensive research on some of them, I will consider this project to have achieved its goal.