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Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 172 p., color ills. Memory and continuity. A selection from the Huma Kabakçi Collection.= Ani ve süreklilik. Huma Kabakçi Koleksiyonu'ndan bir seçki. [Exhibition catalogue]. A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakc¿ began creating the Huma Kabakc¿ Collectionfrom the 1980s onwards. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey. Apart from the logic of creating the Huma Kabakc¿ Collection, its evolution/growth over time, and its subjectivity, the exhibition was designed by keeping in mind its structure, reviewed and changed from time to time, with both objectivity and an art historical subjectivity. The catalogue, in that sense, brings to fore the common and diverging points of the two generations by which the collection has been sustained, through essays and works explanations.