Artist Serkan Ozkaya collected his published articles, interviews and his previous work Today Could Be A Day of Historical Importance which is also known as hand made paper, in a book. The design of the book is made by Vahit Tuna and it was published 600 copies in A4 Ofset in Istanbul which was selected as the world's best publishing house by SAPPI.

Ozkaya's book is sold in a closed can. The design leaves the reader between two choices: opening the can carefully or keeping it the way it is. However, the content of the book is quite rich. First article of the book is Isaac Spradlin's ''Extra! Extra! Works of art, 75 cents!''. After this, Ozkaya's article about his other works and cooperation with Courier-Journal is followed by other articles by Diane Heilenmann, Randy Kennedy and Ingo Arend.

Right bottom of the page functions like a ''flip book''. The images by Ozkaya ranged from the end to the beginnig puts forward a short film of New York Times' paper drawing. The book reflecting the design approach of Tuna and composing of hundreds of color prints, could be identified as the combination of critical thinking and graphic design.

Hand made newspaper or Today Could Be A Day of Historical Importance is a project realized in 2003 with Radikal Newspaper and it contained hand drawing of a daily newspaper, its publishing and distribution. Later, Ozkaya took this work to Sweden, Germany and USA. The artisit will exhibit all of his drawings related to these projects in New York Slag Gallery from 29th of April.

Serkan Ozkaya, defined as ''a cheerful provocator following Duchamp and Dadaists'', had solo exhibitions last year in New York Slag Gallery and Cabinet, in Istanbul's Bilsar and Daniska. He also took part in international shows. Ozkaya made ''Bring Me The Head Of...'' together with restaurants and ''Have You Ever Done Anything Right?'' together with Willoughby Sharp.

Vahit Tuna has designed a great number of artist books by Canan Beykal, Hatice Güleryüz and Aslı Çavuşoğlu, posters, festival catalogs of Genç Etkinlik, garajistanbul, Academie Schloss Solitude, Galerist since 1995. The designer's contemporary works have been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Hafriyat Karaköy and Manifesta.

Today Could Be A Day of Historical Importance is published by Galeri Nev.
244 pages, 4 colors, in a metal can, 74 TL
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