Category: Archive

On the diagram:The actor positions himself on the corner-cross-field.He manipulates and draws on the plexiglass surface (transparent handling surface) that stands vertically in front of him. On the back stands the frame “Manager No. 1”. The cast aluminum hut is clamped inside the frame. In the cast-aluminum hut there are Kleinodtotsods, such as beans, small…

On wishes, including one of mine Nedko Solakov is one of those artists whose work instantly captures you with its directness, charm and wit. Of course, this is true if one is familiar with and knows how to appreciate artwork that connects formal and technical ease, and the multidisciplinary, site and content-specific practice that relies…

Vlasta Žanić’s new exhibition “Mind the GAP!” at the Kula Gallery in Split is in many ways specific. The artist, in fact, decided to exhibit the work “Cycle”, which she has shown for the first and only time in 1993 at the group exhibition New Croatian Art held at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb. After…

Desiring the Unconscious When she represented Croatia at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, Kata Mijatović designed a network platform and interface that we like to call the pool of dreams, wherein anyone in the world can deposit their own dreams in their native language via the link www.arhivsnova.hr. The ultimate goal of the project…

•••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…