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'Mutlu Cerkez: 1998 - 2065' is a major publication produced on the occasion of a survey exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art that provides a view into the art life and practice of Mutlu Cerkez, the Turkish Cypriot Australian artist who grew up, lived and worked in Melbourne until his untimely death in 2005. This publication provides the first comprehensive overview of the artist's practice. It features an essay by MUMA Director Charlotte Day, Senior Curator Hannah Mathews and Curator Research Helen Hughes mapping Cerkez's career and suggesting new ways of accessing it from a contemporary viewpoint. It also includes two newly commissioned essays on various aspects of the Cerkez's practice by writer and musician, Francis Plagne; and Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Max Delany. A selection of articles and texts written about Cerkez's practice throughout his lifetime are also included, as well as an extended interview with fellow artist Damiano Bertoli from 2001, and previously unpublished notes for a lecture that he gave with Marco Fusinato at the Centre for Ideas at the at Victorian College of the Arts in 2002.