{"product_id":"2026100009312-secondhand-mutlu-cerkez-1988-2065","title":"Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: limited to 500 copies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark publication in contemporary Australasian art, Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065 presents a sweeping retrospective of one of New Zealand's most quietly radical artistic voices, charting his career from its earliest gestures to a provocatively speculative horizon. The volume chronicles Çerkez's sustained engagement with portraiture, identity, and the politics of representation, gathering key works that interrogate belonging, ethnicity, and the construction of selfhood with unflinching precision. His painterly practice — rooted in hyper-realist figuration — renders the human form with an intimacy that is at once tender and unsettling, inviting the viewer to sit with the weight of what it means to be seen.\n\nPublished by Monash University Museum of Art, this monograph stands as an essential document of a practice that resists easy categorisation, positioning Çerkez within broader conversations around post-colonial identity and the evolving canon of Pacific and New Zealand contemporary art. The title's audacious reach into the future — extending to the year 2065 — is itself a conceptual provocation, daring the reader to consider legacy, time, and artistic longevity as subjects worthy of interrogation. What does it mean to archive a life's work before it is finished?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269334180059,"sku":"2026100009312-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e31436ff-b05a-4228-bba6-a74e353f8d38.png?v=1788998269","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009312-secondhand-mutlu-cerkez-1988-2065","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}