Manuscript - Sentence I / Ipek Aksugur Duben

Manuscript - Sentence I / Ipek Aksugur Duben

Pamphlet bindings


FA.B44.0469
16 plates; 29 x 22.3 cm
1994
Ipek Ajsugur Duben
Tomris Uyer
Edition of 1000; staple bound, commercially offset, color printed; fold out signatures with reproduced original artworks. "This book consists of 16 plates forming units of threes and ones. The units function as words which together form a 'sentence'. It is to be read as much as to be seen as a series of manuscripts that speak of a non-narrative text."--front matter. "Photographs of excerpts of the artist's art project MANUSCRIPT 1994 which consists of 51 plates forming units of threes and ones. The units function as words, forming a series of four 'sentences' which speak of a non narrative text....Photographic images images in the plates (are) portraits of the artist, as photographed by Ani Celik Arevyan in her studio in 1988 are photocopied vellum and manipulated in the process by the artist..."--colophon. Poem on the exterior front vellum cover is original text by the artist, translated into English from Turkish by Tomris Uyar.