dOCUMENTA - Buchhandlung Walther König

Published on the occasion of
dOCUMENTA (13) – Edited by
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev:
Roman Ondák.
Observations
Cologne 2012. Quer-4to. 148 S.mit
120 Abb., Ppbd.
In his seminal work Observations
(1995/2011) Ondák cut from a
book- perhaps a monograph on
perception – a series of details
comprising images and captions.
Presented on the gallery walls
singly or combined in diptychs and
triptychs, these cuttings form a
universal vocabulary of individual
and collective relationships and
exchanges, of physical movements,
mental projections, momentary
intuitions, or suspended states
of mind on which the artist’s
research is grounded. Hung at
various levels, the images and
their laconic texts capture subtle,
nuanced psychological situations
and ordinary attitudes through a
balanced combination of similar
and contrasting gestures, postures,
and gazes. The exhibition space is
„edited“ by this intervention, and
its indoor articulation reverberates
with a constantly evoked outdoors,
as well as in the recurrent
„elsewhere“ revealed in the cutt -
ings themselves. In these works,
where micro and macro mirror
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each other, Ondák does not
provide an alternative to reality;
rather, he gives the audience a key
with which to access and identify
the variety of different observations
and interpretations that reality
offers. On the occasion of dOCU-
MENTA(13), „Observations“ is
on view in its entirety for the first
time, as an invitation, both giant
and humble, to look.
1478544 24,80
Füsun Onur.
Forew. by Carolyn Christov-
Bakargiev. Text by Defne Ayas.
Interview by Carolyn Christov-
Bakargiev & Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Cologne 2012. 4to. 280 S. mit 223
farb. Abb., Ppbd. – Text in engl.
& türk. Sprache.
Spanning five decades, the oeuvre
of Füsun Onur has retained a fiercely
independent spirit. This book
guides its reader through Onur’s
artistic development by way of her
own documentation, as it includes
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