Sreten Asanović, Nomina, Plima, Ulcinj, 2011
By: Ivana Ančić
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Exhibition in the Bačvice Aquaruim, Split, January 13 – 20, 2012
By: Anita Kojundžić
In times of growing unemployment and global recession, when we can hear only about budget cuts and savings, to choose art as your profession is a bold and risky move (hasn’t that always been the case?), because few can brag about how well off they are living on art, how they are not doing art in their spare time, after their day job that secures their sustenance. In such a context, it is legitimate to ask to what extent can one follow their creative impulse without constant deprivation and accepting various compromises? To somehow answer that question, a group of female students from Split has demonstrated one potential form of self-employment by creating a new social network and finding alternative ways to acquire experience, outside the official institutions and their procedures. In fact, they put on a one-week show of the unaffirmed art scene in the Bačvice Aquarium, which is, in my opinion, one of the best exhibition venues in Split for contemporary art, despite being unfinished.
Davor Matičević: Suvremena umjetnička praksa, uredile Marija Gattin i Radmila Iva Janković, Durieux, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb, Hrvatska sekcija AICA
By: Tihana Bertek
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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.
Aleksandar Jestrović Jamesdin: Beast from the East. Exhibition marking the occasion of the Culture Centre Belgrade Award at the 50th October Salon 2009, October 19 – November 9, 2011, Culture Centre Belgrade Gallery
By: Ana Bogdanović
A drum stick from an Iggy Pop concert next to a T-shirt with his picture painted in oil on sack canvas and a video made at an erotic entertainment centre, which is powered through an over capacitated extension cord under a portrait of a robot pet dog. Standing opposite, a kitchen shelf with object from mom’s pantry and a calendar for the year 2050 with paintings of her son’s artistic endeavours.
Sreten Asanović, Nomina, Plima, Ulcinj, 2011
By: Ivana Ančić
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OSMI I SEDMI PUTNIK, Aleksandar Bjelogrlić, Citadela, Agora, Zrenjanin, 201
By: Dalibor Plečić
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Stjepan Gulin, Paz’te sad, paz’te sad (Meandarmedia, Zagreb, 2011.)
Authors: Ivana Ančić
Igor Marojević, Kroz glavu (Dosije, Beograd, 2012.)
Author: Dalibor Plečić
Damir Miloš, Pisa. Povratak (Meandarmedia, Zagreb, 2011.)
Author: Morena Livaković
POLITIČKE I DRUŠTVENE KONSTRUKCIJE IDENTITETA U VIDEO-PERFORMANSIMA NA BEOGRADSKOJ SCENI 1970-ih
Esej Vladimira Bjeličića
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Esej Tihane Bertek
Od promatrača do sudionika
GALERIJA KAPELICA I POST-JUGOSLAVENSKI BODY ART (1995–2010)
Esej – Bojan Krištofić
Esej o radovima Šejle Kamerić, Maje Bajević i Nebojše Šerića Shobe
Piše: Slađana Golijanin
ESEJ – Razvaline socijalizma kao inspiracija za muzejske eksponate Mrđana Bajića i skulpturalne dosetke Ivana Fijolića
By: Milena Milojević
Piše: Nino Kovačić
Gostujuća izvedba šibenskog HNK, Pir malograđana, prema tekstu mladog Bertolda Brechta (napisan 1919.) izvedena je po sljedećoj formuli: na Danima satire u satiričkom kazalištu Kerempuh gledamo satiričan komad. Prema reakcijama publike, bila je uspješna, ali teško se oteti dojmu da je smijeh bio formulaično zagarantiran, jer bi takav instruirani moment humora trebao zauzdati spontani smijeh. Je li se možda radilo o “malograđanskom” humoru?
Glumice i to, KNAP, Zagreb, premijera 12.5.2012.
Piše: Nino Kovačić
Glumice i to, nova predstava u zagrebačkom KNAP-u, neobičan su kazališni ‘slučaj’. Naime, predstavu su, dramaturški i režijski osmislile te, naravno, glumački ostvarile četiri mlade glumice. U trenutačnoj opće-društvenoj, pa tako i kazališnoj situaciji, kojom prijete olovni pojmovi poput recesije, prekarijata i outsourcinga (nedavno su najavljena i otpuštanja “hladnopogonskih” glumaca), one su, kako piše u najavi “nezaposlene i pune entuzijazma, odlučile su preuzeti stvar u svoje ruke i napraviti hit!”. Očito sklone postdramskom pristupu izvedbi koji se, između ostalog, bazira na ekipnoj work-in-progress metodi, izvedbenoj anti-iluziji i autoreferencijalnosti, glumice/autorice su se “trgnule” i napravile parodiju o tome kako rade predstavu, po ironičnom ključu: kad ne ide pravljenje predstave treba napraviti predstavu o tome kako se ne može raditi predstava.
“Nije život biciklo”, Biljana Srbljanović, režija: Anselm Veber, Produkcija: Šaušpilhaus Bohum, Nemačka; Sterijino pozorje 2012, selekcija Nacionalne drame i pozorišta
By: Tamara Baračkov
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„Grebanje, ili kako se ubila moja baka“, Tanja Šljivar, režija: Selma Spahić, Bosansko narodno pozorište Zenica/Bitef teatar-Hartefakt (Beograd), premijera: 7. septembar 2012. (Zenica), 11. oktobar 2012. (Beograd)
By: Tamara Baračkov
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„Sluga dvaju gospodara“, Karlo Goldoni, režija: Boris Liješević, Grad teatar Budva/Srpsko narodno pozorište Novi Sad/Narodno pozorište „Toša Jovanović“ Zrenjanin, premijera: 27. jul 2012.
By: Tamara Baračkov
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