Sarkis

The book published on the occasion of Sarkis' exhibition entitled "Interpretation of Cage / Ryoanji" comprises three sections. The first section features new texts commissioned exclusively for this publication along with photos from Sarkis' works that are mentioned in the essays. Opening with Melih Fereli's comprehensive curatorial introduction that offers an intense journey into the musical and intellectual references of Sarkis' works in the exhibition, this section includes texts by art historian Gabriele Knapstein ("Fleeting Images and Fleeing Sounds: Music in the Work of Sarkis"), editor and translator Mine Haydaroğlu ("Conveyed Through Sound and Images: The Element of Chance in Art and in the Work of Sarkis"), and philosopher Elie During ("Blocks of Silence, Stretches of Time: Sarkis' Ryoanji").

The second section brings together the 96 watercolours that form Sarkis' work entitled "Partition de flûte Ryoanji / Cage selon Sarkis" while the third consists of a CD that includes a pre-recorded musical interpretation of Sarkis' work by Kudsi Erguner (ney) and Jean-François Lagrost (shakuhachi).

64 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish-english bilingual.