Obje'ct. Yane Calovski (original) (raw)

Senova, Basak, 2012. Ed. Basak Senova. Zorlu Center Art Collection, Book for Artists Series, Istanbul. ISBN: 978-605-633320-0-5 Graphic Design: Erhan Muratoglu Obje’ct is the only book, published in the Zorlu Center Art Collection, Book for Artists Series. It is focusing on the work of artist Yane Calovski, who produced an object for this collection in 2011. Calovski’s conceptual work renders the incompleteness and lapsing of narratives and history. Therefore, in the same manner of an archaeologist, he is obsessed with researching and processing archives. His work is nurtured by the findings and missing links in an archive of any kind; sometimes the work is embodied in personal archives and narratives, and sometimes the work is set up in the public realm. Archives reveal and conceal personal and collective processes. Calovski’s research resonates between these acts of concealing and revealing; thus, his work enchants with the alchemy of turning lapses of memory and missing links into ephemeral sequences of events, situations, feelings, and objects. Research is the key process for Calovski’s working methodology. His artistic practice covers diverse works that range from drawings, objects, photographs, video, sitespecific installations to performance. Accordingly, his work contextualizes and addresses the function of ideas in various forms of presentation, production, research, and analysis. Obje’ct presents Yane Calovski in conversation with the editor, accompanied by an extended critical article on Calovski’s work by Astrid Wege and a fictional scenario by Sebastian Cichocki that aims to emphasize the unrecorded aspects of documenting art. The book introduces Calovki’s selected multilayered works since 1998 that have been exhibited at Tate Britain, Manifesta 7, European Kunsthalle, Kunshallen Brands, Baltic Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, and AR/GE Kunst Galleria Museo.