FRAGMENTS FROM OUR BEAUTIFUL FUTURE
Rebecca Raue, Steve Sabella, Ancient Objects from the Bumiller Collection
Concept, Curator and Editor:
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Taswir projects
Concept, Curator and Editor:
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Taswir projects
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Fragments From Our Beautiful Future. Contemporary Intervention in The Bummiler Collection #3, Rebecca Raue & Steve Sabella, May 18 – August 13, 2017 at THE BUMILLER COLLECTION.
Printed and published by Kerber Verlag.
Concept, Curator and Editor:
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Taswir projects
Co-Editor, Artist and Author Communication:
Julia Gyemant, Taswir projects
Being a dream within a dream … all existence is but an imagination within the imagination
Ibn Arabi
Fragments From Our Beautiful Future is part of House of Taswir’s longstanding agenda of artistic research exploring what is “contemporary ancient.” Accompanying the exhibition is this book, which traces the dual intervention by two contemporary artists into a private collection of ancient Persian and Islamic art. We thank Jill Jasmin Bumiller for her enthusiastic welcome of Rebecca Raue’s brand new Kalila wa Dimna series and Steve Sabella’s fragments from 38 Days of Re-Collection, shown alongside pieces of The Bumiller Collection. The chess figures, mirrors and dice were graciously chosen by Jill Bumiller herself, whose selection is felicitous, showing a certain ingenuity with respect to the exhibition’s fascination with digits of time, cut-ups, and a mirrored, non-consecutive order of things. We thank the artists, Steve Sabella and Rebecca Raue, who offer their work so lavishly to a spatial setting whose nature is experimental, weaving their own practice into layers of matter and time, future to past, dreamlike. These are two artists who exhibit the radical nature of the poetic imagination.
This book also showcases the power of theory and convenes an imaginary roundtable of scholars. We are touched by the spontaneous generosity of the authors, thinkers, writers and curators who followed our invitation to read the artworks and the exhibition from various perspectives.
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh