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•••Forms of Production and Socialization of Exhibits•••Let us begin from the wellspring. In the latter half of the twentieth century the concept of the artist’s studio has changed dramatically, particularly during the 1960s and 70s with the proliferation of innovative artistic strategies and behaviours. Studios stopped being isolated places where the artists existed and engaged…

politics of gaze / relations of understanding I will base this textual appendix to David Maljković’s first exhibition in Split on two guiding principles that I find particularly intriguing: the politics of gaze and relations of understanding. My intention, first and foremost, is to emphasize the artist’s completely new approach to the experience and analysis…

Daily life marred by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, numerous restrictions and new social controls imposed to prevent the spread of the disease until it is eventually placed under control, wherein we encounter a suspension of much of the activities and content, including cultural, has resulted in a peculiar sense of frailty and anxiety – as…

Damir Očko (b. 1977, Zagreb) Graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Očko has exhibited on solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Jeu de Paume, Paris, National Gallery in Prague, Museum of contemporary Art Bordeaux, Museo Amparo, Mexico, DAZIBAO, Montreal, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris, Künstlerhaus…

Pictures are like pornography or drugs … In a popular show on the Croatian national television network, the esteemed academic Miroslav Radman, the world’s leading expert in brain research, recently emphasized the importance of the senses and the sensory world, and was favourably disposed towards invoking the redefinition of René Descartes’ Cartesian model by replacing…

With V. D. T.’s Machine of Nature (Antimuseum) It seems that initially, Vladimir Dodig Trokut’s different practice and his adherence to the forms of otherness of artistic behaviour and procedures was accepted, recorded and commented on in exhibition catalogues in a timely manner.[1] However, his uncompromising position and subversion of common social conventions, habits, and…

Some of the questions we asked ourselves about Dubravka Rakoci’s subject of circles and meditations surrounding them 1. Is it important that circles were cut out as strips from unbleached linen (technical canvas), pieced together to the width of 450 cm, 550 cm or the maximum of 1,000 cm, and then cut by hand, circularly,…

The works in the exhibition encompass a longer period of the author’s creativity, from the primary and analytical works of the seventies and eighties to the present day. However, the exhibition does not claim to be retrospective; rather, it is envisioned as timeless, where very different things, problems, and works from different periods function together.Presented…

Passers-by, one of Tony Cragg’s earlier sculptures presented at the exhibition in Split shows outlines of a fairly large group of people walking and talking. Each character is made out of a spatial network constructed of human figures whose hands, legs and heads are welded thus delineating their form.  This metaphor of humankind’s concatenation is…

Qube is a collaborative installation by American artists, Peter Halley and Lauren Clay at Galerija Kula in Split. For this exhibition, Clay designed a freestanding structure to stand in the center of the space. Clay’s digitally printed marbled patterns cover the structure and floor of the gallery. Peter Halley created a series of “digital paintings”…