Mikhail Karasik

Minaret

St. Petersburg 1998

590 x 210 mm.

Minaret is yet another book inspired by Karasik’s

journeys to Central Asia in the 1980s. In a short text

the artist describes his experiences near a minaret

around praying time. The edition is printed in a 15

sheets (20 pages), oblique rather than rectangular,

there are 8 colour lithographs printed over two pages

and one colour lithograph on one page. The English

text is printed in black above 7 of the illustrations.

The folded sheets are kept loose in an oblique green

card folding cover inside an orange box. The box is

protected by a brown cardboard slipcase on which a

Russian translation of the text is printed in violet ink.