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Press Releases - Galerija 73
20 November - 03 December 2009
Gallery '73 has a great pleasure to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Recent Work by Christian Rieben, on Friday 20th November at 20:00.
Christian Rieben is an American artist and a teacher of art at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Loyola University. After numerous solo exhibitions, Rieben is for the first time putting on display his works of art in Serbia. Rieben's paintings, rich in color and symbolism, are dealing with interpretation of artist's own emotional being and life.
Artist’s Statement
I make paintings of metaphoric characters - proxies who stand in for myself and those I engage with in the arena of my life. That sounds pretty self-absorbed, and it is, but there are elements in the work that are universal enough to interest viewers not directly involved in the action.
Like emotions, the painted subjects dominate the space around them – overwhelming their environment through placement (they’re located in the center of the canvas) and scale (they are the largest feature within the painted space). The binary nature of relationships is often emphasized through the use of opposites: big/small, slow/fast, complementary colors, etc. Sometimes lines and forms are heavy and solid like something substantial and real, other times vague and sketchy like something that is barely extant. The characters can appear overwrought or fantastical, but their cartoonesque representation somehow makes the melodrama easier to take.
I employ a language of painting (using a hybrid of abstract and representational languages) that most effectively conveys particular states of emotional being. It is one of the challenges in the construction of my work to synthesize distinct visual languages – in the process having the canvas serve as both a “window” and an object which records its own making. One of Painting’s greatest strengths is its ability to represent different ideas, actions, and realities concurrently.
I paint, as Robert Rauschenberg said, “because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself”. I am an emotional guy; accepting and addressing this in my work has been the single greatest development in my evolution as an artist. Continuing to develop a painting language which accurately embodies my emotional state(s) will lead to more incisive and profound work - a result which underscores the synthesis of the abstract (emotion) and the real (the finished painting).
03 – 23 April 2009
"Milan Konjović: In defence of picture's autonomy - Painting of Milan Konjović in era of Social Realism"
Author of the exhibition: Sava Stepanov, art historian
"Milan Konjović: In defence of picture's autonomy - Painting of Milan Konjović in era of Social Realism" exhibition will be opened on 3rd of April 2009 at 8 p.m. in Gallery '73. The author of the exhibition is Sava Stepanov, renowned art historian and theorist from Novi Sad.
Milan Konjović is one of the most prominent and internationally recognised figures of modern art in this geographical area. During his long and exceptionally fruitful creative life (1893-1993), Milan Konjović produced around 6000 works of art in various techniques and participated in around 1000 group and solo exhibitions. Konjović went through his several famous art phases - blue, red, grey, colourist, evocative, Byzantine - and witnessed turmoil of social and political changes.
The exhibition in Gallery '73 presents a partial reconstruction of two important exhibitions of Milan Konjović, the one held in Museum of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad in 1946 and an anthological one called "Ljudi" ("People") in Art Pavilion in Belgrade in 1951, both being accompanied by documentary materials of that time. These exhibitions were originally held in the time of destruction of a bourgeois society, whose member Konjović was, and "fitting in" the new social reality resolutely and methodically imposed by government that was striving to limit the artistic freedom of expression in order to build its new ideological and social system.
With this exhibition art historian Sava Stepanov is aiming at showing to public that Konjović, despite the even still existing stereotypes, "bravely, in a determined way and without making compromises, after all the attacks on his painting and his concept of art, stood up against the proponents of Social Realism, particularly those in charge of a theoretical concept of creativity not based on the principles of art."
The exhibition will be opened by Ješa Denegri, PhD, well-known art historian from Belgrade and expert in this period of Serbian modern art.
PERSONAL MAPPING OF THE CITY - JOURNAL FROM BERLIN
The exhibited series of digital prints came into being in 2007 during my stay in Berlin, the town which, according to my opinion, represents Europe in small dimensions and which I see as the great unity of contrasts.
Sculptures take very important place in Berlin and represent the unseparable part of architecture as well as they remind people of town’s turbulent history.
The sculptures exist in order to keep memories about good periods as well as they are supposed to remind us on the bad ones. As such, they represent people’s mirror through which they can face their own past.
Through these works I want to recapture spirit of past times in a city that has never stoped building and developing into one of the most contemporary Europian cities.
The sculptures as a motif have been chosen and observed in personal way, while they were made according to the historic facts. In this way, the story I want to tell through these digital prints by putting the sculptures in various contexts and relationships is that thay represent my personal view of history, as well as of the future.
The work consists of several series:
1. series where I invoke the gesture of man creation from Michelangello’s fresco
2. the city as a huge building site
3. sculpture and people or life of a sculpture
4. sculpture and its surroundings
5. one reflection about a circle
6. the monuments on the ground
This series of works represents something between documentary and personal notes, something between diary about journey and travel guide, sensuousness and rationality, experience and knowledge, past and present, remembrance and oblivion, destruction and construction, eternity and passing, as well as this very city.
This is a personal note from a journey where I, just like Alice in Wanderland, playing in the Land of sculptures, travel through history and the future as well.
Artist Statement: Mirjana Blagojev
21st Čukarica’s Fine Art Salon
Čukarica’s Fine Art Salon is an art manifestation with a tradition over two decades long. This year’s 21st Čukarica’s Salon, in the same way as a few previous salons did, shows that this type of manifestation, like its other counterparts in Serbia and abroad, is leaving its old light salon model and is gradually becoming a fine art exhibition based on a particular concept. Namely, it is becoming the product of a targeted and critical analysis of the contemporary art scene or some of its segments.
The core of exhibitors consists of artists who marked the Belgrade (Serbian / Yugoslavian) fine art scene by their youthful vitality, innovation and creative energy during different periods of the eighth decade of the last century. Such artists were: Nada Alavanja, Srđan Apostolović, Dejan Atanacković, Danijel Glid, Zoran Grebenarović, Zdravko Joksimović, Dobrivoje Bata Krgović, Dragoslav Krnajski, Tahir Lušić, Dragana Marković, Dušan Petrović, Danilo Prnjat, Mileta Prodanović, Aleksandar Rafajlović, Igor Stepančić, Čedomir Vasić, Vera Stevanović. The majority of these artists are marked by distinct erudition as well as confident and free formulation of visual statements in various art media: from painting, digital photography, print, to art installations, and video works.
Extract from the Introduction to the Exhibition Catalogue written by Danijela Purešević,
Art Historian.
Translated by: Katarina Vasić
> Opening reception December 12th, 2008 at 8:00pm
> Exhibition is open from December 12th until January 22nd, 2009
Serbian “Art Informal” Paintings from a Private Collection
Foreword to the catalogue: Jerko Denegri
The Gallery ‘73 in association with “Kolesnikoff” Auction House have the great pleasure to invite you to the opening ceremony of the exhibition of an exceptional collection of paintings by representatives of Serbian Art Informel art movement (L'Art Informel).
List of painters whose artworks are participate on the exhibition.
Jožef Ač,
Vera Božičković – Popović,
Branko Filipović Filo,
Petar Omčikus,
Zoran Pavlović,
Mića Popović,
Branislav Protić,
Vladislav Šilja Todorović,
Živojin Žika Turinski,
Lazar Vozarević.
> Opening reception September 19th, 2008 at 8:00pm
> Exhibition is open from September 19th until 25th, 2008
The International Colony of Art Pottery “Zlakusa" Uzice
„Tragom vatre“ / „Following the Trace of Fire“
Uniqueness of the Zlakusa pottery is in the material used for making pots, as well as in the very method of manufacture. A perfect combination of clay (overripen) brought from the village of Vranjani and calcite (kind of calcite mineral - "vrsta") dug in the village of Rupeljevo, in the ideal proportion 1:1 enabled origination of the pottery which endures for centuries. Even in the conditions of modern way of living, when the fashion of metal dishes, it could be said, pushed them back, the pots from Zlakusa succeeded in surviving and every day they justify their existance more and more.
"Past Perfect / Present Imperfect"
Solo exhibition: Dusanka Komnenic (Serbia)
> Exhibition is open from June 06th until June 19th, 2008
The skin is a distinctive organ. As a painted surface, it reflects the emotions and psychological life of an individual to the outside world. It reacts by changing color and structure, mimicking a painter’s choice of hue, texture and treatment. Skin is nature’s surface, as canvas is for a painter.
Dusanka’s art does not render an exact replica of skin, nor does she try to reproduce lifelike representation of fluctuating moods. Still, a painting is her other body, the body of mankind, the body of Art itself.
By appropriating the practice of action painting, she “attacks” canvas with paint as our constant emotional turbulence “attacks” our skin. Dusanka lays layers of paint, creating coats of derma, thus suggesting the passage of time and the shifting states of mind.
Skin – Painting – reveals the accumulation of experience, piercing emotions in reds and blues (Guts, Sumnja, Flag Reversed), even when they are depressing or melancholic (Sunce, Transibirska). She peels off, tears apart, surfaces of paintings, leaving the newest skin hanging, thus revealing the previous states of mind underneath. Surprisingly, they expose that the past and present are one that they fuse and create a whole. The artist’s brutal approach confronts the viewer with the fact that the present is not different than the past, so it is impossible to escape one’s own nature. (Dusanka Komnenic)
“Remnants in Time / Ostaci u vremenu”
Solo exhibition: Biljana Vujicic and Nadia Ionta (Canada)
> Opening reception May 09th, 2008 at 8:00pm
> Exhibition is open from May 09th until 22nd, 2008
Summary of the Project
Montreal artists Biljana Vujicic and Nadia Ionta present Remnants in Time, an exhibition that explores conceptual ideas of the realities of human existence - the human body and the human mind throughout time. The subject draws notions of the human being both in the physiology and the mental aspects and the effects that time has on the body and mind. Life, death, aging, memory, and emotions are fused elements used to convey these physical and psychological human traces, transformations and affects of time. Through their works, Vujicic and Ionta intend to bring about some new aesthetic insight concerning the human condition allowing viewers to discuss artistic interpretations of human living.
Vujicic investigates memory as the psychological and emotional part of the self. She delves into the psychological phenomena of human behavior and memory transformations through time. Layering, mark making, scrapes and repetition are characteristic in her work revealing coherent or clouded traces and transformations of moments in time. Vujicic exhibits 10 paintings on large canvas each consisting of 60 x 60 inches in size.
Ionta’s continual interest and research in the studies of medical science and in human physiology are her primary influences to explore this subject matter. Time and repetition are elements in much of my works to reveal the physical effects that time has on the human body. A sculpture installation consisting of 18 pieces of skin-like sheets (60 x 32 inches) made from fabric and latex will be hung on a clothing line. This installation creates a notion of the aging body revealing a reality of human existence. The suspended pieces also address the idea of bodies frozen in its’ circumstances yet remains alive.
"Moje prvo Ja"
Solo exhibition: Vladimir Magdelinić (Serbia)
Foreword to the catalogue: Vladimir Velickovic
> Opening reception February 08th, 2008 at 7:00pm
> Exhibition is open from February 08th until 21st, 2008
Slučaj V.M. je redak, veoma redak. Radi se o mladom slikaru koji, ovom izložbom, stupa na našu likovnu scenu i nadam se da će ga ta likovna scena prihvatiti, jer je reč o jednom izuzetnom talentu (ekspresivna, snažna, gestualna figuracija). Ali, kao što znamo, talenat nije dovoljan, on sam ne garantuje ništa, možda par koraka... Potrebno je, neophodno je čak, dohraniti ga pasijom, voljom, dinamikom i potpunom, svakodnevnom i celodnevnom posvećenošću poslu. Samo kompletna angažovanost može dovesti do željenog rezultata, dovesti ovu prelepu reč, punu prepreka i zamki, ovu avanturu (jer je reč o avanturi) uspešnom.
Imam neograničeno poverenje i verujem u ovog mladog čoveka, jer je uradio mnogo za ovih godinu dana (uverićete se i sami), uverio me je da je u sebi sakupio sve neophodne parametre koji će ga (pod uslovom da nikada ne odustane od onoga što je naumio, da nikada ne prihvati bilo koji kompromis, da po svaku cenu ostane svoj i veruje u sebe - prolazne sumnje su dozvoljene, čak neophodne) veoma brzo uvrstiti među predstavnike najmlađe generacije na koju sa sigurnošću možemo da računamo.
Srećna ti bila ova prva izložba.
Vladimir Veličković
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