Sreten Asanović, Nomina, Plima, Ulcinj, 2011
By: Ivana Ančić
English version will be available soon.
WHO SETS THE LIMITS OF PERCEPTION?
Igor Eškinja, Inhabitants of generic places | NO Gallery of Contemporary Art Museum, Zagreb| November 4 – November 20, 2011
By: Ana Bogdanović
One of the powers of art lies in its ability to provoke experience from the audience by employing conspicuous visual means which allows them, at least for a moment, to share the distorted point of view imposed by the artist. In order for the play with the viewer to be successful, artists used trompe-l’œil (French for “illusion”), which means accurate presentation of space in the painting with the aim to create an illusion of three-dimensional space which is a seamless continuation of the tangible space surrounding the viewer. Removing the boundary between real and imaginary space, perception was fooled and a human need satisfied, to make things appear as real in art as they are in life. If we apply this to our day and age, where the mass phenomenon of virtual reality, popularity of four, five, and six-dimensional movie experiences in cinemas, skillfully and very manipulatively, affects the confusion between the real and construed space of the viewer, mimetic representation of familiar situations in art does not manage to satisfy the complex perceptional expectation of the viewer. Testing the limits of perception, not just art, but what we call reality, is the main challenge posed by the Croatian author Igor Eškinja with Inhabitants of generic places.