Stones to Throw by Ahmet Öğüt
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Publisher: Lost Books & Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2012
Format: Softcover
Pages: 47
ISBN: 978-3-9814930-3-0
Stones to Throw is Ahmet Öğüt’s compact dossier for a work that starts as an installation and ends as a portable provocation: ten stones painted with “nose art” motifs—military aircraft graffiti re-routed onto objects made for the hand. The book (edited by Misal Adnan Yıldız) holds the project in print as a small, blunt tool: ornament as weapon, folk gesture as political image, the everyday throw translated into a language of symbols. A pocket-sized field report on how aesthetics travel from machines of war into the street—and back again.
