Sarkis - In the Beginning, Istanbul 19380-20200
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| Verlag | Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 504 |
| Format | 21,2 x 4,6 x 27,2 cm |
| Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | |
| Gewicht | 1814 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Monografie |
| ISBN-10 | 3775752544 |
| EAN | 9783775752541 |
| Bestell-Nr | 77575254A |
Illuminating monograph Motifs of origin, identity and exile Award-winning, internationally distinguished artist
Illuminating monograph Motifs of origin, identity and exile Award-winning, internationally distinguished artist
This comprehensive monograph published in collaboration with Dirimart gathers works of contemporary artist Sarkis-conceived and presented in the context of the one city he keeps returning to: Istanbul. His iconic installation Çaylak Sokak, first exhibited in 1986, is considered a turning point in the history of contemporary art in Turkey. Named after the street Sarkis grew up in, Çaylak Sokak recreates his family home featuring a bathtub and his father's shoes bearing the German words for war spoils KRIEGS and SCHATZ. A reference to German cultural theorist Aby Warburg's concept of a "Leidschatz" as "humanity's treasure of suffering", "Kriegsschatz" became a key concept in Sarkis' oeuvre. Drawing on his own Turkish-Armenian identity, Sarkis's continunes his works presented at the Venice Biennale in 2015, the centennial of the Armenian genocide: his latest body of work Red Stained Glass traces the present through fragments from the past. Photographs from Istanbul are rendered i n red, fractured, and recombined to further explore themes such as time and memory, presence and absence, identity and exile.
Paris-based Sarkis Zabunyan (_1938, Istanbul) is known by his first name SARKIS. He had his breakthrough with the exhibition Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form at Kunsthalle Bern in 1969, was followed by his participation in documenta 6 and 7. Major exhibitions include Passages at the Centre Pompidou in 2010, Hôtel Sarkis, a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva (MAMCO) in 2011, and his installation Respiro in the Turkish pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.
