Yane Calovski. Obje'ct. Texts by Astrid Wege, Basak Senova, Sebastian Cichocki, Yane Calovski. Edited by Basak Senova.

New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Large Roy. 8vo. Color and b/w ills. 206 p. In English and Turkish. 1000 copies printed. OBJE'CT is the first book of Book for Artists Series of the Zorlu Center Art Collection, curated by Basak Senova. OBJE'CT is also a humble attempt to address the specific characteristics, unfolding issues, and the line of the Zorlu Center Art Collection through Calovski's line of thinking and working. Concurrently, it is the first comprehensive publication 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, site-specific 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 Calovski's selected multilayered works since 1998 that have been exhibited at various venues and events, including Tate Britain, Manifesta 7, European Kunsthalle, Kunshallen Brands, Baltic Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, and AR/GE Kunst Galleria Museo.