Incidental arrangements

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Incidental Arrangements

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Wolfgang Berkowski

Incidental Arrangements

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Connectors Connettori

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Milieu*

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Interior, (Square)

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Interior, (Square)

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Portable Orderly (Folders, Stacks) Interior, (Square)

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Portable Orderly (Folders, Stacks) Interior, (Square)

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Floor Show Portable Orderly (Folders, Stacks)

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Floor Show Portable Orderly (Folders, Stacks)

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Fixed Focus, Clear Floor Show

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Fixed Focus, Clear Floor Show

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Fixed Focus, Black Fixed Focus, Clear

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Fixed Focus, Black Fixed Focus, Clear

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Forced Positions (Two Greens Floating) Fixed Focus, Black

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Forced Positions (Two Greens Floating) Fixed Focus, Black

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Deep Structure Forced Positions (Two Greens Floating)

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Deep Structure Forced Positions (Two Greens Floating)

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The Real Book Deep Structure

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The Real Book Deep Structure

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Vertical Horizon (Tower) The Real Book

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Vertical Horizon (Tower) The Real Book

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Accessible Structure (One Common Factor) Vertical Horizon (Tower)

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Accessible Structure (One Common Factor) Vertical Horizon (Tower)

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Projector Accessible Structure (One Common Factor)

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Projector Accessible Structure (One Common Factor)

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Monumental Pieces (Display for a Curved Surface) (Hyperdisplay)

Projector

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Monumental Pieces (Display for a Curved Surface) (Hyperdisplay)

Projector

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Construction

Monumental Pieces (Display for a Curved Surface) (Hyperdisplay)

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Construction

Monumental Pieces (Display for a Curved Surface) (Hyperdisplay)

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Wave Construction

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Wave Construction

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Closer Wave

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Closer Wave

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Tubes (Catechism) Closer

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Tubes (Catechism) Closer

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Tubes (Battery/Closed Circuit) Tubes (Catechism)

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Tubes (Battery/Closed Circuit) Tubes (Catechism)

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Tube (Isolated) Tubes (Battery/Closed Circuit)

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Tube (Isolated) Tubes (Battery/Closed Circuit)

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Gargantua (Faded) (Threehundred and Twenty Four Posibilities)

Tube (Isolated)

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Gargantua (Faded) (Threehundred and Twenty Four Posibilities)

Tube (Isolated)

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Exclusion

Gargantua (Faded) (Threehundred and Twenty Four Posibilities)

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Exclusion

Gargantua (Faded) (Threehundred and Twenty Four Posibilities)

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Circular Extension Exclusion

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Circular Extension Exclusion

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Maze (Historical) Circular Extension

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Maze (Historical) Circular Extension

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Details (Historical) Maze (Historical)

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Details (Historical) Maze (Historical)

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Drifter Details (Historical)

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Drifter Details (Historical)

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Revolver Drifter

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Revolver Drifter

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Livingston Revolver

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Livingston Revolver

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Several Distinct Poses (for A.) Livingston

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Several Distinct Poses (for A.) Livingston

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Untitled Several Distinct Poses (for A.)

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Untitled Several Distinct Poses (for A.)

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Brain, Skeleton, and Outer Shell (The Visible Woman) Untitled

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Brain, Skeleton, and Outer Shell (The Visible Woman) Untitled

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Drawings Extented (Headlines and Footnotes) Untitled

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Drawings Extented (Headlines and Footnotes) Untitled

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Commentary / Einzeiler Drawings Extended (Headlines and Footnotes)

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Commentary / Einzeiler Drawings Extended (Headlines and Footnotes)

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32 Incidents Commentary / Einzeiler

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32 Incidents Commentary / Einzeiler

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Berkowski verteilt Zeichnungen an Arbeiter 32 Incidents

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Berkowski verteilt Zeichnungen an Arbeiter 32 Incidents

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Neighborhoods Berkowski verteilt Zeichnungen an Arbeiter

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Neighborhoods Berkowski verteilt Zeichnungen an Arbeiter

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Lost Items (Memory Piece) Neighborhoods

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Lost Items (Memory Piece) Neighborhoods

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Ständer (Base) Lost Items (Memory Piece)

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Ständer (Base) Lost Items (Memory Piece)

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Manual Ständer (Base)

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Manual Ständer (Base)

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The Black Box COC Manual

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The Black Box COC Manual

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Drawers The Black Box COC

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Drawers The Black Box COC

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Continuity (The Complete Mechanism) Drawers

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Continuity (The Complete Mechanism) Drawers

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Guts Continuity (The Complete Mechanism)

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Guts Continuity (The Complete Mechanism)

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Storage / Unsolved Problems Guts

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Storage / Unsolved Problems Guts

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Space Storage / Unsolved Problems

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Space Storage / Unsolved Problems

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Skin Space

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Skin Space

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Cover

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Incidental Arrangements displays some of the main strategies used by the artist. The three parts (Connectors, Milieu and Cover) each form a distinct project, utilizing acquisition and choice, abstraction and memory, the real world and the laboratory as point of view, while taking up links to each other, like dendrites creating a network between different regions of a brain. As a result this book resembles a manual of how to’s rather than a fixed entity.*

Wolfgang Berkowski was born in Germany in 1960.

His work consists of an analytical, linear part in producing small scale drawings that resemble diagrams, signs, logos and serve as tools for the visualization of complex problems.

In a second, synthetical part, the drawings (sometimes accompanied by objects, photographs etc., functioning as headlines or footnotes) are displayed in a way that a specific reading, a grammar is introduced.

Since 1989 Berkowski’s work has been shown in galleries and museums in Europe and the USA. He lives and works in Rome and New York.

*A second, accompanying book titled “Arranged Incidents”

(available at Onestar Press) serves as reference and index.

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Wolfgang Berkowski

Incidental Arrangements

First edition limited to 250 numbered copies.

A 30 copy deluxe limited edition of this book,

accompanied by a signed and numbered original print by the artist, is available from Onestar Press

Layout and photos: Wolfgang Berkowski Cover photos: Angela D’Orazio

Along with “Incidental arrangements” a second book: “Arranged incidents” is published in association with Onestar Press

The artist and the publisher would like to thank Cornelia Lauf for making this book a reality

This book is dedicated to Cecilia Canziani. WB Printed and bound in France

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