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cheated. Like Dejanoff, Delvoye chafes up against existing differen- masterly fashion. In the landscape-format watercolour ‚Dream Ri-
ces and, in turn, elicits provocations. der‘, he lets meticulously and delicately depicted cowboys on their
horses trot as tiny figures through endless space. But beyond their
Less ‚coy‘ than Delvoye, Nora Turato makes her views known in a graphic bravura, and all in a global context, the sheets bear com-
direct, literally striking manner; the sentences on her posters are bined allusions to conditions or political events in the Soviet past
not preconceived, but self-formulated. They range from flippant ob- and Russian present. After all, Pepperstein is the son of Viktor Pivo-
servations and advertising slogans to essential statements, about varov, an important representative of the Moscow Conceptualists;
subjects such as religion or politics – always headstrong and worthy Pepperstein, who works as a draughtsman, poet, critic, and also as a
of contemplation. For the Serbian, resident in Croatia, language is theoretician, makes very free use of a variety of methods and styles
evidently a crucial bridge to reach people. For this, she switches to in order to amalgamate them into his own pictorial cosmos. As the
English as a supranational level of discussion. This mediation can title ‚Landscapes of Future‘ of his presentation for the Russian pa-
take place in written or in oral form, as in her ‚Spoken Word Per- vilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale suggests, the artist‘s inventive
formances‘, somewhat comparable to Andrea Fraser‘s ‚Gallery Lec- designs move in the utopian space between reality and vision; on
tures‘. Turato‘s lasting contribution to Manifesta 12 in the historic a foundation both oriented towards the existing and rubbing up
chapel Oratorio San Lorenzo in Palermo, is exemplary proof of how against it, the inventor uses expansive, poetic texts and hard to
unerring Dohmen‘s pick of the young artist is. Here, a black, ca- decipher illustrations to erect a structure that is as fragmentary and
ge-like steel frame deliberately disturbed and unsettled the artful worthy of interrogation as it is highly inspiring.
Renaissance ambience, as the loudspeakers reported on how the
‚donas de fuera‘ were persecuted as witches in their time, just as While Pepperstein‘s works are instantly recognisable as watercolour
the issue of exclusion is still virulent today. drawings by the unmistakable style of his penmanship, the black
and white sheets of the Japanese artist Tsukuda Hiroki could initial-
Acquiring works by Pavel Pepperstein is less risky, in that this Rus- ly easily be mistaken for photo collages. But neither photo nor col-
sian artist expertly executes drawings and watercolours in near old- lage apply. Instead, the artist transfers his own photos and others

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