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For Eyes That Listen
The publication accompanying the group exhibition For Eyes That Listen opens with an essay by Melih Fereli, Arter’s Founding Director and the curator of the exhibition, which takes its reference from John Cage’s experimental approach that combines the use of silence with aleatory music alongside indeterminacy in his art. The book also includes a text by composer Gordon Mumma, the recipient of the 2019 SEAMUS Award for his contributions to electro-acoustic music, along with an essay on the concept of “found sound” by Hasan Cem Çal and Furkan Keçeli, and a selection of short stories from John Cage’s books titled Silence (1961) and A Year From Monday (1963). Designed by Vahit Tuna, ...
Rainforest V (variation 3)
Focusing on a single work from the Arter Collection in each title, Arter Close-Up series continues its journey, following Sarkis’ iconic work Çaylak Sokak, with an in-depth look at the interactive installation Rainforest V (variation 3). Acquired for the collection in 2018, the work marks a significant turning point in contemporary art history. Drawing on the presentation of the work in Arter’s Karbon performance hall (10 September 2020–30 January 2022), the publication grows out of a conversation between Melih Fereli, Arter’s Founding Director and the exhibition’s curator, and John Driscoll & Phil Edelstein, highlighting the evolution of Rainforest, the collaborations cultivated ...
Nuri Kuzucan: Passage
Published in the context of Nuri Kuzucan’s solo exhibition Passage, the eponymous book opens with an extensive conversation between the curator of the exhibition, Nilüfer Şaşmazer, and the artist. Alongside the conversation which offers various reflections on Kuzucan’s life and his artistic inclinations that have evolved over time, the publication compiles newly-commissioned essays authored by Duygu Demir, Tarkan Okçuoğlu, Asuman Suner and Hakan Tüzün Şengün, providing new perspectives across the artist’s oeuvre. Designed by Ayşe Bozkurt, the publication also features photographs taken by Hadiye Cangökçe and flufoto (Barış Aras & Elif Çakırlar). Nuri Kuzucan’s solo ex...
Locus Solus
Arter initiated a new publication series, ARTER BACKGROUND, in 2019 to accompany exhibitions drawn from its collection, which holds more than 1.400 works of art. The fourth book of the series accompanies Locus Solus, which brings together selected works from the Arter Collection with several large-scale installations, including site-specific new productions, with an aim to explore the idea of “nature” through the lens of facts, fictions and emotions. In the book, excerpts of textual and visual contents selected around the ideas active in the curatorial process of the exhibition are complemented by new works produced specifically for this context. While the exhibition curated by Selen Ans...
Canan Tolon: Loss
Focusing on a single work from the Arter Collection in each title, Arter Close-Up Series offers an in-depth look at Canan Tolon’s work titled Loss (1988–2010), following Sarkis: Çaylak Sokak written by Emre Baykal and David Tudor & Composers Inside Electronics, Inc. (John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein): Rainforest V (variation 3) by Melih Fereli. The publication, which also draws on the display of the installation as part of the group exhibition Precaution (03/06/2021–20/02/2022) curated by Emre Baykal at Arter, features a comprehensive interpretive text written by Erdem Ceylan. In her installation Loss, Tolon gives another chance to her works that were damaged during the San Francisco ...
Ahmet Doğu İpek: A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads
Published in the context of Ahmet Doğu İpek’s solo exhibition which brings together works that the artist has created with various mediums between 2020–2022, the book titled A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads features a text written by the exhibition’s curator Selen Ansen, as well as commissioned essays by Cana Bostan, Gökçen Erkılıç and Nevzat Sayın which explore İpek’s works stemming from natural phenomena through the lens of reflections proposed by the exhibition. Designed by Ali Emre Doğramacı, the publication also includes reproduction images and exhibition photographs by Hadiye Cangökçe, flufoto (Barış Aras & Elif Çakırlar) and Sena Nur Taştekne. Taking place ...
Candeğer Furtun
From the 1960s onwards, Candeğer Furtun has produced ceramic works informed by problematics relating to life, philosophy, history, society and politics, featuring an original approach in terms of both form and material. Published on the occasion of the artist’s first retrospective exhibition (16/09/2021–17/04/2022) held at Arter, this book provides a visual and conceptual record of Furtun’s production throughout the years, while granting visibility to the pioneering contributions she made to the art of ceramics as well as the multiple facets of her artistic practice, sustained by an unmediated relationship with the earth. Opening with a curatorial introductory text whereby Selen Ansen...
Bill Fontana: Resounding Io
Her kitapta Arter Koleksiyonu’nda yer alan tek bir esere odaklanan Arter Yakın Plan dizisinin dördüncü kitabı, kırk yılı aşkın bir süreyi kapsayan sanatsal üretimi boyunca gündelik hayatımızı çevreleyen gizli müziğin inceliklerini açığa çıkaran Bill Fontana’nın İstanbul Boğazı’nın çeşitli noktalarında, ayrıca Bizans döneminden kalan Şerefiye (Theodosius) Sarnıcı ve Yerebatan (Bazilika) Sarnıcı’nda gerçekleştirdiği kayıtları temel alan İo’nun Yeni Sesi başlıklı çok kanallı ses ve video yerleştirmesine derinlemesine bir bakış sunuyor. Yerleştirmenin Arter’in Karbon adlı performans salonundaki gösterimiyle (10/03/2022–04/12/2...
Sarkis: Çaylak Sokak
Arter Publications’ extended programme includes the launch of two new series which accompany the opening of the institution’s new building in Dolapdere: the first is entitled Arter Close-Up and offers a closer look into a selected work from its collection; which contains more than 1,300 works as of 2019. The Close-Up series starts its journey with Sarkis’s iconic work Çaylak Sokak - an artwork that is deemed to be one of the turning points in the history of contemporary art in Turkey. The artwork, which was first exhibited at the Maçka Art Gallery in 1986, and then took part in the Wizards of the Earth exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1989, bears the same name as the str...
Emre Hüner: [ELEKTROİZOLASYON]: Unknown Parameter Extro-Record
The publication accompanying Emre Hüner’s solo exhibition [ELEKTROİZOLASYON]: Unknown Parameter Extro-Record opens with the artist’s text titled “[Elektroizolasyon]: A Recording Mechanism”. Featuring collages, images from the production process, drawings, diagram-sketches, “[Extro-Envanter]” photography series and film stills created and prepared by Hüner specifically for this occasion, it also includes Aslı Seven’s curatorial text “Electrical Afterlife_Scriptoprothesis in the Shadow of a Hyperobject”, fragments from the script of [Elektroizolasyon] and photos, as well as Hypernauts by Meliha Erem. Designed by Vahit Tuna, the book brings together reproduction and exhibi...
