Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065 is an exhibition and monograph that survey the art and life of Mutlu Çerkez, the Turkish Cypriot Australian artist who lived and worked in Melbourne until his untimely death in 2005. Çerkez was an influential artist who, during his lifetime, had a significant impact on the Australian and international art worlds. His work incorporated traditions of conceptual art, minimalism and monochrome painting but made its own internal logic its primary reference point, while strenuously resisting a reduction to any single style. Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065 brings together the artist’s key remaining works loaned from public and private collections across Australia as well as from the artist’s family. The accompanying monograph features newly commissioned essays by Francis Plagne, Max Delany and the exhibition’s curators, and includes an illustrated catalogue raisonné.
294 pages, 29.5 x 23.5cm, hardcover, MUMA (Melbourne)